1. What Every Educator Needs to Know about Brain-Compatible Teaching Marilee Sprenger

2. Marilee Sprenger©2008 Human Brain About 3 pounds 78% water, 10% fat, 8% protein Less than 2.5% of body’s weight Uses 20% of body’s energy

3. # 1 Thing to Know : The Brain Is Changing!

5. Department of Internal Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. Adolescents who play more than one hour of console or Internet video games may have more or more intense symptoms of ADHD or inattention than those who do not. Given the possible negative effects these conditions may have on scholastic performance, the added consequences of more time spent on video games may also place these individuals at increased risk for problems in school.

6. Today’s Student Brain Emotionally Laden Messages Multi-media Bombardment Rapidly Changing Input

7. Application #1: What to do about the RAS: 1._________________ 2._________________ 3._________________ 4._________________ 5._________________ 6._________________

8. # 2 Thing to Know The brain is the only organ that sculpts itself through experience. (NEUROPLASTICITY) Brain Cells Can Change Their Functions

9. Application # 2: Experiences that change: 1.M __________________ 2.M___________________ 3.C___________________ 4.M___________________

10. # 3 Thing to Know The brain learns and remembers patterns.

11. Application #3: Teaching Patterns: 1.G 2.C 3.C 4.M

12. # 4 Thing to Know The addition of emotion can help students remember. Stress inhibits learning: “Reduce” Anxiety

13. Procedure: Something you do on a regular basis to free up working memory and allow more cognitive processing. Ritual: Something you do on a regular basis that elicits a feeling Procedures and Rituals

14. Application # 4: Release the Stress 1.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

15. # 5 Thing to Know The brain-body connection is powerful

16. Sleep The light from a television or computer can delay both the necessary drop in core body temperature and melatonin production – and thus delaying sleep onset – by two hours. After just a few days of shortened sleep, the brain starts making extra stress hormone cortisol. It takes six times as long for this stress hormone to drop to a low-enough level that sleep is possible.

17. Application #5: Brain and body: 1.P 2.F 3.M 4.E

18. # 6 Thing to Know The Brain Searches for Meaning. The brain deletes unimportant or meaningless information.

19. How the brain looks at incoming information: Is this important? –Do I need this information? (survival) –Do I want this information? (desire, goal) –Have I been successful with this type of learning before?

20. Application #6: Finding Meaning 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

21. # 7 Thing to Know Practice/rehearsal is critical to learning for the long term.

22. 28/3 Rule New concepts require 24 -28 engagements for long-term storage These engagments should be over a 3 week period Testing prior to the 3 weeks results in lower performance

23. Procedural Conditioned Response Emotional Semantic Episodic