Design for Learning Rather than Planning For Teaching is the phrasing of George W. Gagnon, Jr. and Michelle Collay Let’s do a K*W*L on the brain: We KNOW that the brain can only pay attention to one thing at a time...so what does that say about talking on the phone while you are driving??? Which thing is not getting your full attention? We also so that the brain loves humor and that the brain will believe whatever you tell it...so go ahead and laugh at my jokes...your brain doesn’t know the difference between real laughter and fake laughter and neither do I.

What do you want to know about me? Turn to your table family and introduce yourself then agree on at least one question you would like to know about me. {1 minute}  Divide room into thirds and take a question from each third.

A coach is actually a mediator, one who figuratively stands between a person and his thinking to help him become more aware of what is going on inside his head. It is not enough for a person to behave in a certain way—what's important is the thinking that goes on behind the behavior. A large part of the role of a mediator is based on trust and rapport with the person being coached.

A coach is actually a mediator, one who figuratively stands between a person and his thinking to help him become more aware of what is going on inside his head. It is not enough for a person to behave in a certain way—what's important is the thinking that goes on behind the behavior. A large part of the role of a mediator is based on trust and rapport with the person being coached.

Here is our K*W*L model, here is what we know the brain loves. Build one of these components per day into your lessons. The Brain generates 50-100K new brain cells each second between the 5th and 20th weeks of life. Be age three, the child’s brain is twice as active as an adult’s. Neurologists tell us that there are 1000 trillion contact points in the brains. We have to have something for all these cells to do!!!  The brain has two sides: left (organized/analytical/controls speech for 90% of the population-Dr. Marian Diamond) and right (creative/global): Piaget noted that from ages 11-13 a self-consciousness begins to develop as the right hemisphere becomes harder to access. The brain continues to grow and develop in more abstract thinking until about 22. The corpus callosum which is the bridge between the left and right sides of the brain is thicker and more fully developed in musicians as is the temporal lobe of the cortex. This area of the brain is associated with language processing and might suggest a link between language and music. What is NOT here? Talk to your table family and decide what is not here....possible answers....stress (80% correlation between stress and illness; the brain learns best when it is not in high stress), negativity (turn to the person next to you and say “You are SOOO good-looking!), lack of purpose (we die 18-24 months after our purpose is over), boredom (students disrupt because they feel bored), isolation (we will remember 80% of what we talk about with others, yet what did we used to call talking between students? Cheating! I say let them “cheat” all they want BEFORE a test!) What NEEDS to be added to this group? Possible AnswersàPlay, Variety, Games, Hobbies, Art, Veggie~Time

What is missing? What should be added? What can be deleted (i.e., what is redundant)

Neocortex aka cerebral cortex.  What is the value of knowing the parts of the brain? Because you will know that your math-phobic students perform much better on tests if there is some allowance made for their special needs, because the limbic system will be most active parts of their brains (since they are afraid of how they’re going to perform.) If the limbic system is getting all their energy, then the cerebral cortex, which does the thinking and reasoning on the test, is not getting the energy it needs in order to function at its best. http://www.thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/d/d_05/d_05_cr/d_05_cr_her/d_05_cr_her.htm

“Memory works better if there’s a feeling associated with it.” Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCI University of California @ Irvine, quoted in Redbook, 9/2005. Phonics, Music Notation, and Math link auditory centers to the left and right brain, according to Don Campbell in The Mozart Effect.

MacLean's research argues that most human behavior is the result of cooperation between the three systems of the brain

It is not a matter of growing old, it is of getting old if you don’t grow

Movement involves more of a student’s brain than does seatwork since movement accesses multiple memory systems, Jenson, 2001 Clapping hands and tapping rhythms can synchronize the hemispheres of the brain. (“Don’t Worry/Be Happy” song)

Lozanov’s technique, “Suggestopedia” uses slow, baroque music to improve learning more quickly and retaining it, as explained in The Mozart Effect by Don Campbell. The corpus callosum which is the bridge of 300 million axons between the left and right sides of the brain is thicker and more fully developed in musicians as is the temporal lobe of the cortex. This area of the brain is associated with language processing and might suggest a link between language and music. According to Dr. Dee Coulter, Director of Cognitive Studies at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO. choose music to match your classroom activity. Mozart is the vanilla of the music spectrum, for our inner order; for optimal creativityàjazz, which moves into chaos and from chaos creates order. “Jazz teaches you how to have a dialogue with integrity,” Wynton Marsalis. Rock, Rap, and other music with a definite beat constitute an intense statement of timeàcan keep focus and the ability to organize. I used for short bursts to introduce new material. New Age, ambient music such as Enya constitutes a statement of space and is appropriate for processing, relaxing for those who lead structured lives.

According to Dr. Dee Coulter, Director of Cognitive Studies at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO. choose music to match your classroom activity. (but no more than 22 minutes per hour) Mozart is the vanilla of the music spectrum, for our inner order; for optimal creativityàjazz, which moves into chaos and from chaos creates order. “Jazz teaches you how to have a dialogue with integrity,” Wynton Marsalis. Rock, Rap, and other music with a definite beat constitute an intense statement of timeàcan keep focus and the ability to organize. I used for short bursts to introduce new material. New Age, ambient music such as Enya constitutes a statement of space and is appropriate for processing, relaxing for those who lead structured lives. A great deal of work has been done on the effect of music in the office and restaurant businesses "Our research suggests that conductors are better able to combine and use auditory and visual cues than the musically untrained," says Donald Hodges, a professor of music education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Activities and Ideas to Reach Learning Retention

The red set are palindromes, the green set are things with a cape.

by Dr. Kathie Nunnely

www.pierce.ctc.edu/.../ tumbleweed/tumbleweed.htm quote from Terry Sejnowski, sandals from HT personal collection

The Average Student Studying With the Aide of Organizers Learns as Much as the 90th Percentile Student Studying the Same Content Without the Assistance of Organizers. To take notes, organize ideas, review for test, summarize reading, experiments, math processes