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Sticky Lessons
  • Crafting brain-based, learning experiences that STICK or Stay with students.
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Sticky Lessons
  • Your Facilitator: Helen Teague, MEd.
  • Los Angeles, CA and Abilene, TX
  •  helen@4oops.com


  • This entire presentation available online at the OOPS: Our Overnight Planning System website: http://4oops.com
  •    (click on “Book Orders link)
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Your Facilitator:
  • J Helen Teague
  • http://4oops.com
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Sticky Facts:
What We Know To Be True:
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Sticky Facts:
What We Know To Be True
  • Thought and perception produce all behavior.
  • Teaching is constant decision-making.
  • Learning something new requires engagement and alteration in thought.
  • We continue to grow cognitively.
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Lesson Sticky~ness:
The Brain Loves...
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Building Sticky Memory Muscles
  • When you learn something new, your brain wants to connect it with something. It will hold onto things that are:
    • Part of a Pattern
    • Like a Previous Experience
    • Novel or New (if used quickly)
    • Connected to the Familiar
    • Connected to Emotion & Meaning
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We Think in Pictures & With Humor.
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We Think in Pictures.
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Memory Types
  • Semanticà Word-related
  • Proceduralà Associative Conditioning
  • Episodicà Contextually-based by Location & Circumstance
  • Emotionalà Triggers using Feelings
  • Automaticà Alphabet, Multiplication tables, Codes, Rhymes,
  • To Increase Memory Rely on a
  •     Combination of these Types
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Sticky Semantics: Use
  • Chunking  Chunking Limit
  • Mnemonic Tools/Acrostics/Socratic Questions
  • Graphic Organizers/Mindmaps
  • Role-Play
  • Peer-Teaching
  • Highlighting
  • Rhyme/Word Games/Tri-bonds
  • Room Pegs/Body Pegs
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Which is Easier to Remember?
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Which is Easier to Remember?
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Sticky Procedurals: Use
  • Starting/Ending Class Procedures
  • Transitions/Interruptions
  • Materials Organization/Cleanup
  • Warm~Ups
  • Outlining
  • Time Lines
  • Movement/Clapping/Chants/
  •    Marching/ Tapping
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Sticky Episodes: Use
  • Bulletin Board changes with each new unit
  • Student groups create bulletin boards
  • Seating Chart changes with each new unit
  • Different Color Paper for each unit  OR
  • Different Color Paper for Thinking/Review
  • 6 Thinking Hats
  • Learning Centers
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Sticky Emotions: Use
  • Discussion/Debate
  • Role Play
  • Cliff Hangers
  • Journaling
  • Emotions reveal our values, not our thoughts
  • Reduce Classroom Stress, emphasize safety
  • Open-Ended Questions
  • Music ♪♫♪♫


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Sticky Automatics: Use
  • Songs
  • Flash Cards
  • Quiz Shows
    • Jeopardy
    • Wheel of Fortune
    • http://www.iknowthat.com
  • Sound Clip Signals
  • Drill and Practice
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What About Music??              
Play That Tune ! ! !
  • ♫For Classroom ChoresàDefinite beat
  • ♪ For New Material (as Intro)àRock
  • ♫For Retention/FluencyàBaroque/Latin
  • ♪ For CreativityàJazz
  • ♫For Tension ReliefàSousa, Short bursts
  • ♪ For Processing/BackgroundàNew Age
    • http://www.iserenity.com
  • ♫ If you can only choose 1àBach/Mozart
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Sticky Song List
  • Green Onions....Booker T. and the M.G.’s
  • Carey Bell’s Blues Harp....Carey Bell
  • Car Wash....Rolls Royce
  • Don’t Worry, Be Happy....Bobby McFerrin
  • Banana Boat....Harry Belafonte
  • The Boys of Summer (Opening Riff Only)...Don Henley
  • 100 Years...Five for Fighting
  • Surfin’ Safari...Beach Boys
  • Suite No. 3 in D Major...J.S. Bach
  • Bach Cello Suite...J.S. Bach
  • Any Baroque Music
  • On Golden Pond...Dave Grusin
  • Biking Home...Lisa Gerrard
  • Slam...David Sanborn
  • Make Someone Happy...Chris Botti
  • Over the Rainbow....Chet Atkins & Les Paul
  • Montanas...Alturas
  • I Fight Authority...John Cougar Mellencamp
  • Walk, Don’t Run...The Ventures
  • Crossfire...Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Questions to Process
  • Have I given students enough processing time today to help form memories?
  • Do I allow enough processing time for all students?
  • Do all students require the same amount of processing time?
  • Do I give answers or ask questions?
  • Why did the ancient teachers ask a lot of questions and give few answers?
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Sticky Lessons:
Putting It All Together
  • The most important times of a lesson are the First Part and the Last Part. (Primacy-Recency Effect)
    • Start with an emotional or real-life application
    • End with discussion or questioning or recap
  • Middle-Instruction with emotional impact
  • Teach the whole concept first so the brain has a place to file the new information and concepts.  Then teach individual parts.
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"Synthesis"
  • Synthesis
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Sticky Idea: Tribondà (Analysis)
  • Step on Pets
  • Never odd or even
  • Madam I’m Adam
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Found @ the “Game-A-Day” link on the OOPS website: http://4oops.com
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Approaches:
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Wait Time
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Begin Everyday with a Warm~Up
  • Fortune Cookies
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Use Graphic Organizers
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The Key Sticky Word:







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         Q & A

              Discussion
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