The Brain
It processes information, attends to new stimuli, & stores information in memory.
What is the brain?
A chart where students identify what they already know about the topic, what they want to know, and then what the learned at the end of a lesson.
What is a KWL chart?
Examples of these include using appropriate language, listening to others, accepting different opinions, and dealing with conflict.
What are social skills?
Useful thinking tools that allow students to organize information and to see their thinking.
What are graphic organizers?
A relatively recent instructional strategy of learning through interacting and engaging with a large source base of easily-accessed information.
What is technology?
This is affected by novelty, color, humor, hands-on activities, and emotions.
What is attention?
Connecting learning experiences to thoughts and feelings.
What are emotions?
Groups where students learn valuable social skills, use higher-order thinking, and rehearse and practice new concepts, processes, and information.
What are cooperative groups?
Looking at the similarities and differences between two or more topics.
What is comparing and contrasting?
A hierarchy of higher-order thinking skills that includes remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
What is Bloom's taxonomy?
Students perform better when the task is within reach and they have support from a more knowledgeable other.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
The time it takes after a question is asked (about 3-5 seconds) for neural networks to bring long-term memories to short-term conscious memory.
What is wait time?
Being responsible for personal contributions to the group and acquiring knowledge and skills due to the group process.
What is accountability?
What is a Venn diagram?
Acting out or depicting a character or particular scenario that deals with a concern or issue.
What is role-playing?
This is important for survival and lasts for approximately 3/4 of a second.
What is sensory memory?
One idea triggers another because of interconnecting networks of ideas in the brain.
What is concept association?
Students are assigned to an expert group where they gather and learn new information that they teach to their base group.
What is jigsaw?
An organizer that is used for classifying and enables students to focus on a big idea or topic and identify subcategories related to that big idea.
What is a word web?
A strategy where students first think by themselves, then share with another student, and finally share their ideas with the class.
What is Think-Pair-Share?
The process of the brain growing and changing because of new learning opportunities.
What is neural plasticity?
The practice of organizing and associating information into networks that are then stored in long-term memory.
What is elaborative rehearsal?
Building alliances by relying on other members of the group and working together to accomplish a common goal.
What is interdependence?
A way of comparing several items based on identified criteria.
What is a comparison matrix?
A technique used for students to consider a subject from 6 points of view and develop a multidimensional perspective.
What is cubing?