Strategy 1: Two Minute Pause Strategy 2: Graphic Brainstorming
Students can not learn when information is presented
Visual images and spoken word mix well, as determined by visually in text and spoken at the same time, as PEN principle two. Viewing an image and listening to determined by PEN principle one. Listening and reading someone speak require neural activity on different areas of rely on the same neurological pathways which means only the brain. The activation of these two areas allows the brain one stimulus should be presented at a time. to understand and learn information more effectively.
I would apply this strategy in my class by ensuring that I
I would implement graphic brainstorming into my class by allow time for my students to read the content in a quiet assigning time at the end of my lesson for students to draw an environment before I start verbalizing more information. image that best reflects what they just learnt. There is no right or I would ensure to build in this time in my lesson plan wrong answer to this, it is simply an activity that will help since my students will learn better by reading and students connect the material they learnt to a visual. This listening separately rather than overwhelming their subsequently activates two areas of their brain simultaneously neurological pathways which would result in them which will help them remember the content more easily. learning less. Kirsten Chornawka (MNO) 6 Sterling Strategies Jeffrey MacCormack
Strategy 3: Designated Information Strategy 4: Test Taking
Board Actively reviewing material for short tests each week will Ensuring spatial predictability in the classroom will help guide help maintain knowledge over a longer time span, as student attention, as determined by PEN principle three. determined by PEN principle four. Rather than cramming for Students are able to learn and utilize these patterns without a large exam in one long study session, students should conscious effort which will allow them to become more review material over several short study sessions which attentive. would be supported with weekly quizzes.
The act of writing small quizzes is something I would implement
I would apply this strategy in my classroom by ensuring that I in my class since it makes students keep up with the course have a designated area at the front of the class that will show content and constantly review. This will help transfer memory the days schedule. This way, students will know exactly from their short term to long term and will be able to better where the timetable is spatially in the classroom which will recall the information for the final exam. I would incorporate this require little conscious effort and therefore maintain strategy into my teaching by scheduling quizzes once a week and concentration. having a review period before a larger exam. Kirsten Chornawka (MNO) 6 Sterling Strategies Jeffrey MacCormack
Strategy 5: Elevator Pitch Strategy 6: Similes
Active recall trumps passive review, as determined by PEN Find the stories behind the facts, as determined by PEN principle principle nine. Recalling previously learned material is more eleven. Presenting facts in a story can activate more neural effective than recognizing previously learned material regions which can help students contextualize and personalize through passive review since the brain undergoes stronger dry content. The act of putting material into a story format can neural activity in memory networks than does passive review. lead to students developing a broader understanding of Therefore, the weak neural activity present in passive review concepts. results in shallow memory networks in the brain which will make one forget things easily since the connections werent strong.
I would implement the elevator pitch strategy into my
I would implement the use of similes in my class since it would classroom since it helps build stronger neural activity with help students understand the concepts. Like the use of stories, previously learned material, especially when one is asked to similes can activate neural regions that will help with memory make a summary of what they just learnt and share it with recall when two things are being contrasted in a figurative someone who they just met on an elevator. This strategy does way. I would take the time to develop these similes ahead of not allow for passive review since the task requires students to time in order to demonstrate a clear understanding to my verbally express their understanding rather than rereading students. notes.