Learning Environments
All educators are this.
What are brain changers?
The process by which a teacher intentionally builds in gaps of time for students to do a bit of forgetting.
What is spacing?
Learning involves making new _____ in the brain.
What are connections?
MBE research tells us that content and study strategies should be taught ...
What is together?
The Swiss psychologist known for defining four stages of cognitive development in children.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The concept that directly contradicts the conventional wisdom that you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
What is neuroplasticity?
The process used by teachers to repeatedly bring back older material and mix it with the current flow.
What is interleaving?
This ungraded, informal assessment can help set a baseline for what students know and don't know.
What is pre-assessment?
An example of this is when teachers model their thinking out loud.
What is a metacognitive strategy?
The weight of the average adult human brain.
What is three pounds?
Students need to feel these two things to perform well in the classroom.
What is emotionally and cognitively safe?
The statement, "Students have a good sense of what study strategies work for them," is an example of a...
What is a neuromyth?
Engagement can be thought of as a teacher's purposeful efforts to incentivize this.
What is thinking hard?
A metacognitive strategy teachers can use at the end of a unit test could be to add this type of question at the end of the exam.
What is a reflection question?
The approximate number of neurons in a human brain.
What is 100 billion? (Anything between 85 and 150 billion will be accepted.)
Too much visual clutter in a classroom can affect this.
What is working memory?
This type of assessment should happen often, help students learn, and count for as few points as possible.
What is formative assessment?
Feedback should be more work for...
What is the Studnet?
Children as young as ____ can learn metacognitive strategies.
What is 3?
This lobe of the brain is concerned with reasoning. planning, speech, movement, emotions, and problem-solving.
What is the frontal lobe?
This part of the brain is involved in memory and spatial learning and is the gateway by which information passes before it is memorized.
What is the hippocampus?
Teachers should provide some degree of this to improve learning for all students.
What is differentiation?
The quality of the feedback has a greater impact on student learning than...
What is the quantity?
Motivation is a function of _____ and ______.
What is value and expectancy?
Final Jeopardy
The animal with the largest brain, weighing in at about 20 pounds.