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EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES:
what’s the brain got to do
with it?
Brain function
Attention
Memory
BRAIN DIAGRAM
HEARING WORDS
SEEING WORDS
Hearing words creates hot spots
mainly in the temporal lobe of the
cortex. Seeing words mainly
involves areas in the occipital
lobes.
THALAMUS: TEENAGE
ATTENTION-GETTING REGION
LIMBIC SYSTEM- TEEN THINKING
CENTER
EMOTIONS
MOTIVATION
MORE & LESS
EMOTIONAL
ASSOCIATION
External
Stimulus
Initial Processing
Coding
Retrieval
Forgotten
Repetition
Forgotten
LEARNING & MEMORY
• Learning: A change in the nervous system
caused by some event that in turn causes a
change in behavior.
Learning in nervous system: Requires a
change in the physical structure or
biochemistry of a synapse. Process is called
synaptic plasticity.
LEARNING & MEMORY
A group of neurons is repeatedly
activated by new stimuli.
Synaptic connections between them will
be strengthened.
Circuit will contain the new information.
•
Neurons that fire togetherwire together.
LEARNING & MEMORY
STRATEGIES
Positive Climate
Global thinking/connections
Predictions
Undivided Attention
Higher Motivation-Goals
Directed Focus
Retention During Learning Episode
Prime-time-1
Prime-time-2
Down-time
0
10
20
Time in Minutes
30
40
Levels of Concern
vs.
Degree of Learning
Level of Concern
Hake (1998)
Types of Assessments
• ONE-Minute Paper: End of class- Brief check
of student understanding
• Muddiest Point: End of class- check
muddy/misunderstanding
METHODS:
• One-Sentence Summary
• Directed Paraphrasing of concept
• Classroom Opinion Polls
INTERACTIVE NATURE OF HIGHER LEVEL LEARNING by
L. Dee Fink
Content Driven
Teaching-centered
Instruction
THROUGHOUT CLASS
• THE PRIMARY GOAL IS:
ACTIVE LEARNING
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