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When planning for student experiences in the classroom, consider the following information:. Average Retention Rate after 24 hours. How the Brain Learns David Sousa. Lecture. 5 %. 10 %. Reading. 20 %. Audio-Visual. 30 %. Demonstration. 50 %. Discussion Group. 75 %.
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When planning for student experiences in the classroom, consider the following information:
Average Retention Rate after 24 hours How the Brain Learns David Sousa Lecture 5 % 10 % Reading 20 % Audio-Visual 30 % Demonstration 50 % Discussion Group 75 % Practice by Doing 90 % Teach Others / Use New Learning
Consider these when building student choice into class projects, activities, labs and other experiences …How will students show what they know?
Naturalist classifying, environment, minerals, insects, plants Musical-Rhythmic rhymes, music, songs, listening, raps, humming, concert reading Interpersonal cooperation, partners, teams, pairs, groups, win-win competition Verbal-Linguistic stories, debate, humor, dialogs, speech, reading Multiple Intelligence Bodily Kinesthetic role play, exercise, drama, mime, activities, simulations, games, sports Intrapersonal reflective, thinking, visualization, metacognition, journal writing, self-discovery Spatial mind-maps, movement, sense of body and distance, drawings, poster charts, memory maps Mathematical/Logical analysis, prediction, reasoning, problem-solving, proving, cause-effect
If you are considering activities that will engage students in the writing process, think about these:
GroupReports/ WhiteBoarding Summarizing Multiple Views Pictures Comic Strip Charts, Graphs & Tables Word Sort/ Prediction Accurate Complete Coherent Evidence ConceptMapping Who or What am I? S.U.B.J.E.C.T. acronym Cubing Word Pictures Games Role Play Songs, poems Hand Signals ConstructedResponse Journal Writing Double/Triple Entry Story Word families
SEED IDEAS assist in… Source How to Think Like Einstein and Thinker Toys …Thinking Ambidextrously …Getting out and staying out of old furrows or ruts…Pulling us out of a rut and giving us a whole new perspective for making new connections, forming new patterns of thinking, and deepening understanding …Freeing your natural brilliance to create new connections and deepen your understanding A LIST OF POSSIBLE SEED IDEAS ON NEXT SLIDE… Try making up one of your own! PLANTING SEEDS… …Marry the concepts to be learned to the seed idea. …Use joke to express the connection …Create a picture to join the ideas …Experience the concept for learning from the point of view of the seed idea …Use the characteristics of the seed idea to form new patterns of thinking about the concept for learning …Consider how the seed idea can be differentiated…example: nail—how is one nail different from another and what new connections to the concept for learning can be made? …Compare and contrast the concept for learning with the seed idea—open or focused. How is concept for learning like…the seed idea? * If the relationship between the seed idea and concept for learning is strong, then the seed idea is inside the rut and may not pull you out.