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Brain-based Learning

Before students can make memories or learn, you must capture their attention.

 

Based on my background as a neurologist and my experience as a classroom teacher, I’ve created this list of tips for any teacher to integrate brain-based, neuro-logical learning strategies to grab and hold students’ attention.

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Teaching is a unique profession because its success is based heavily on knowledge, craft, and relationships. No matter how strong the craft, imparting knowledge will be nearly impossible if the relationship between you and your student is absent.

 

Here are my dos and don'ts for building positive, productive relationships with students.

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Teaching Rubric

Your students, no matter their age, need and want structure and organization.  They want to know what the limits are and how to push them.  Furthermore, your students want to know what the expectations are – just like adults – they want to please you (their teacher) and do well and be successful. 

 

By utilizing and implementing rubrics into projects and assignments, you are actually setting yours students up for success!

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Easy Differentiated Instruction

Finding easy ways to implement DI is – believe it or not – very achievable even with the busiest teacher’s schedule!

 

Differentiation of instruction can be done in one of three ways (or a combination of two or more):  content, process, or product. Let’s look at three simple ways to differentiate for each.

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Classroom Improv

It was almost 20 years ago that I attended a National Endowment for the Humanities program for teaching Shakespeare through performance as an inner city high school teacher. It was at this institute that I learned how critically important it was for students to learn creatively and kinesthetically.

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