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Teacher Tool Box II

Teacher Tool Box II. Dr. Diane Cepela gdcepel@gmail.com 815.258.5251. Teacher Tool Box II Day 1. Finding out what you want to know? Brain Compatible Learning Facts Experience brain compatible lessons Discuss the sensing person Discuss the above average, gifted and creative learners.

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Teacher Tool Box II

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  1. Teacher Tool Box II Dr. Diane Cepela gdcepel@gmail.com 815.258.5251

  2. Teacher Tool Box IIDay 1 • Finding out what you want to know? • Brain Compatible Learning Facts • Experience brain compatible lessons • Discuss the sensing person • Discuss the above average, gifted and creative learners. • Relax, it is Saturday – have fun!

  3. Getting to know you • Watch the slide show – what 3 facts or pictures are cool to you? Write your answers – each one of you – on a blue card. • Discuss with table partners • Find another person in the room and share blue card • Repeat • Be ready to report out to group • What did you discuss? • Neatest thing you saw / read

  4. Getting Started • Develop a few groups – 2 2’s, 1 3, and 1 4 • Start with syllabus • As a result of reading the syllabus - what are your burning questions?

  5. Use Novelty in Lessons • Humor – makes the world go around. • Movement – every 15 – 20 minutes depending on age. With one minute of movement there is 15% more blood in our brains! • Multi-sensory instruction – Today’s students, video games, computers – need more? • Quiz Games – Have students develop – the fun will keep them engaged but the repetition will make them rehearse and understand the concepts • Music – play during learning episodes about 30% of the time – age dependent

  6. Wiki Space • Explore – find Diane’s Wiki Space • Read the Welcome • Look at the picture and the file • Let’s play – add a picture and a file • How can you use this in your classroom • Create your own Wiki

  7. Brain Info • Your brain is the size of your fists – let’s see! • Cerebellum • Thinking part of your brain - thinking, memory, speech and muscular movement • Jelly like mass • Cerebral Hemispheres • Left to right side and right to left side • Linked by Corpus Callosum • 250 million nerve fibers

  8. Brain – 2 – Limbic System • Limbic System • Emotional System buried deep in your brain • One side mirrors the other side • Most structures are duplicated from one side of the brain to the other • 3 Parts • Thalmus – senses except smell go here first and then are directed to the other parts of the brain • Hippocampus – near the base (Seahorse) – consolidates learning and tells it where to go for long term storage in the brain • Remember everything before the operation but not after – stranger to them tomorrow (50 First Dates) • Permanent memory storage – in the emotional system • Amygdala – (the Almond) – Plays an important role in emotions – fear, rage or pleasure. Surgical removal can turn a psychopath into a docile individual – think “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” • Long term memory is here in the emotional system

  9. Brain - Brainstem • Brainstem – body functions • Body temperature, heart beat, digestion, respiration, blood pressure, etc. • Oldest and deepest part of the brain • Often referred to as the reptilian brain • Of the 12 body nerves that go to the brain – 11 end here ( the olfactory nerve goes directly to the limbic system

  10. Cerebellum – the “little brain” • Right below the cerebrum • It coordinates all movement – dancing, golf swing, bring cup to lips… • Damaged – cannot coordinate movement, catch a ball, compete a handshake

  11. Other Brain Learning • Take the “giftedness” quiz. Which are you?

  12. Windows of Opportunity as a Child’s Brain Matures

  13. Sensitive Children • I tell you about a new idea such as a WikiSpace. Which of the following is your response. • I am thinking how many ways I can use this. I think I could improve on it if only…Maybe the students could make their own but I only have 4 computers in the classroom so… • Step 1: Figure out how to make the time. Step 2: Plan a schedule for computers…

  14. Sensitive Children - 2 • Wow – when Dr. Cepela said some of you may have trouble, I think she was thinking of me. I hope this doesn’t mean that she doesn’t like me because I can’t do computers very well… • This WikiSpace idea can really help Joe. He misses so many classes but is really smart and good at computers. I think this would help not only Joe but some of the others in my class

  15. Sensitive Children - 3 • What is the true meaning of Wiki? How does Wiki and teacher interaction compare? Which do you think is the stronger way to learn information? I would like the answers to these questions before I decide…

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