1. EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES: what’s the brain got to do with it?
Brain function
Attention
Memory

3. BRAIN DIAGRAM

4. 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.

5. THALAMUS: TEENAGE ATTENTION-GETTING REGION

6. LIMBIC SYSTEM- TEEN THINKING CENTER
EMOTIONS
MOTIVATION MORE & LESS
EMOTIONAL ASSOCIATION

7. Long Term Memory Sensory Memory Working Memory External Stimulus
Retrieval
Initial Processing
Coding
Working Memory
Forgotten
Repetition
Forgotten

9. 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.

10. Neurons that fire together-
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 together-
wire together.

11. LEARNING & MEMORY STRATEGIES
Positive Climate
Global thinking/connections
Predictions
Undivided Attention
Higher Motivation-Goals
Directed Focus

12. Retention During Learning Episode
Prime-time-1
Prime-time-2
Degree of Retention
Down-time
Time in Minutes

13. Levels of Concern vs. Degree of Learning
Level of Concern

14. Hake (1998)

15. 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

16. INTERACTIVE NATURE OF HIGHER LEVEL LEARNING by L. Dee Fink
Content Driven
Teaching-centered
Instruction

17. THROUGHOUT CLASS
THE PRIMARY GOAL IS:
ACTIVE LEARNING
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