1. Dendrites: 20 Worksheets Don’t Grow
Instructional Strategies for Teaching the
Common Core Standards
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)
Revised 12/1-R09
Revised 12/1/09

2. 10 Neuron The Memory Cell 1._____________ 6._____________
CHARACTERISTICS OF A BRAIN-COMPATIBLE CLASSROOM
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3. STRATEGIES the learns best that take advantage of how
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© M. Tate 2001

4. BRAIN-COMPATIBLE LESSON PLAN
BRAIN-COMPATIBLE LESSON PLAN
Lesson Objective(s): What do you want students to know and be able to do.?
Assessment (Traditional/Authentic): How will you know if students have mastered essential learning?
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:
Lesson Segment 3:
Brain-Compatible Strategies: Which will you use to deliver content?
Brainstorming/Discussion  Drawing/Artwork Field Trips Games
Graphic Organizers Humor and Celebration Manipulatives/Models
Metaphors/Analogies/Similes Mnemonic Devices Movement Music/Rhythm/Rhyme/Rap
Project/Problem-based Instruction  Reciprocal Teaching/Cooperative Learning
Roleplay/Drama/Pantomime/Charades  Storytelling  Technology  Visualization
Visuals  Work Study  Writing/Reflection
© M.Tate - 3/9/12