USING BRAIN SCIENCE TO MASTER THE ART OF TEACHING
Follow @PalankSMDC GET STARTED HERE: 8 Qualities of Engagement to Plan Your Lessons Before I share the reason why this discovery is important to you, in a way that you may not be able to imagine yet, I just want to say that it’s my honor to show you something that really changes your […]
Read More Get Started Here … with a Free Engagement Checklist(As you read along, and become interested or curious in this topic, keep in mind that this is part 1 of 4) Back in my junior year of college, I asked my favorite professor, “What’s the best way to manage classroom behavior?” His response was so profound that I still remember it to this day. […]
Read More Why You’re Your Own Worst Behavior Problem.How to Turn on and Off Students’ Autopilot Air Traffic Controllers have a lot of responsibility. They have people’s lives in their hands. Each day, they have to make a lot of decisions. Teachers have to make a lot of decisions too. In fact, some sources say that they have to make more decisions than […]
Read More How to Turn On and Off Students’ AutopilotWe grade 10 strategies against each other: Input vs. Output, Speaking vs. Listening, Stories vs. Data, Massed vs. Spaced Practice, and Reflecting on Learning vs. Pouring in More Content
Read More 10 Brain Based Teaching and Learning Principles that Work (Part 1)Let’s say that you were a visual learner. You would believe that you learn better when things are visually constructed. That could be very useful when studying for exams. If you’re not sure what “learning style” you were born with, don’t worry! Quizzes like the one below will help you determine that: Here’s another summary […]
Read More How to Study if You Are a Visual LearnerDespite all the questions surrounding the new school year, one thing is certain…
The Truth about Teaching
Overall:
Reading – 96% of students improved their reading scores
Math – 95% of students improved their math scores
Of course you may say that raising test scores is not the only thing that matters in school, and you would be right.
Read More We created an Individualized Learning class (on Steroids)… And here’s what happenedThree steps. Three seconds. Engage “that student.” Then jump for joy!
Read More This 3 second hack will make you jump for joyI want you to have the most engaged students possible.
Luckily, science has identified 8 qualities of engagement.
Use at least 3 of these qualities in each activity, students show sustained engagement
84 to 86 percent of the time!
Forty years ago, in what is now known as the Central African Republic anthropologist Barry Hewlett noticed something that would make American parents shudder. When the nomadic Aka pygmies stopped to rest between hunts, parents would give their infants small axes, digging sticks and knives. Infants would play to learn how to use them. Despite […]
Read More To Teach is Human?Way back in the 1980s the US Secretary of Education Terrel Bell once said, “There are three things to emphasize in teaching: The first is motivation, the second is motivation, and the third is (you guessed it) motivation.” (Terrel H. Bell, U.S. Secretary of Education, 1981-1985.) If motivation is so important, then student success depends […]
Read More How to Motivate Your Students with Just One Sentence
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