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Worksheets Don’t Grow Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain !

Worksheets Don’t Grow Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain !. Dendrites:. 20. AGENDA. PART ONE Creating a Brain-Compatible Environment Why These Strategies? Primacy Brain/Body Connections 5 Facts About Neurons 10 Characteristics of A Brain-Compatible Classroom. PART TWO

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Worksheets Don’t Grow Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain !

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  1. Worksheets Don’t Grow Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain! Dendrites: 20 AGENDA • PART ONE • Creating a Brain-Compatible Environment • Why These Strategies? Primacy • Brain/Body Connections • 5 Facts About Neurons • 10 Characteristics of A Brain-Compatible • Classroom PART TWO Delivering a Brain-Compatible Lesson • 3 Brain Facts • Lesson Planning • A Model Vocabulary Lesson • Why These Strategies? Recency • Review/Celebration Dr. Marcia L. Tate Developing Minds, Inc. Work # (770)918-5039 marciata@bellsouth.net Revised 12/1-R09 Revised 12/1/09

  2. Neuron The Memory Cell 10 CHARACTERISTICS OF A BRAIN-COMPATIBLE CLASSROOM 1._____________ 6._____________ 2._____________ 7._____________ 3._____________ 8._____________ 4._____________ 9._____________ 5._____________ 10._____________

  3. Instructional Implications Of Research Brain Fact Concepts to Remember Students tend to remember best that which comes first in a learning segment, and remember second best that which comes last. (primacy-recency effect) Need, novelty, meaning and emotion are four ways to gain the student’s attention. The brain can hold seven isolated bits of information in short term memory simultaneously. © M. Tate 2007

  4. STRATEGIES that take advantage of how the learns best 1._____________ 11.______________ 2._____________ 12.______________ 3._____________ 13.______________ 4._____________ 14.______________ 5._____________ 15.______________ 6._____________ 16.______________ 7._____________ 17.______________ 8._____________ 18.______________ 9._____________ 19.______________ 10.____________ 20.______________ © M. Tate 2001

  5. BRAIN-COMPATIBLE LESSON PLAN Lesson Objective(s):What will you be teaching? Assessment (Traditional/Authentic): How will you know students have learned the content? Ways to Gain/Maintain Attention (Primacy) : How will you gain and maintain students’ attention? Consider need, novelty, meaning, or emotion. Content Chunks: How will you divide and teach the content to engage students’ brains? Lesson Segment 1: Activities: Lesson Segment 2: Activities: Lesson Segment 3: Activities: • Brain-Compatible Strategies:Which will you use to deliver content? • Brainstorming/Discussion Drawing/Artwork Field Trips Games • Graphic Organizers/Semantic Maps/Word Webs  Humor Manipulatives/Experiments/Labs/ Models • Metaphor/Analogy/Simile Mnemonic Devices Movement Music/Rhythm/Rhyme/Rap • Project/Problem-based Instruction Reciprocal Teaching/Cooperative Learning • Roleplay/Drama/Pantomime/Charades Storytelling Technology Visualization/Guided Imagery • Visuals Work Study/Apprenticeships Writing/Journals © M.Tate 2005

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