Brain Structures
This structure is involved in the control of emotion and aggression, assessing the harmfulness of sensory inputs, and creating emotional changes.
What is the Amygdala?
Beliefs, attitudes, or ways fo perceiving oneself in relation to learning and intellectual work.
What is academic mindset?
Requires students to think creativity and bring their knowledge to projects that have no one correct solution.
What is problem-based learning?
CCSS
What are common core state standards?
word length, word frequency, word difficulty, sentence length, text cohesion of a science journal
This band of fibers divides the cerebrum into two hemispheres and connection them for neural processing.
The belief that academic ability is changeable rather than being fixed at a particular level.
What is growth mindset?
Students are exposed to new ideas and opinions through this type of participation.
What are active discussions?
What is disciplinary learning and knowledge?
The strongest differentiating factor in reading between students who are college ready and those who are less likely college ready
What are proficiency and performance on complex texts?
This part of the brain is responsible for processing auditory information.
What is the Temporal Lobe?
These make students more likely to engage with academic work, demonstrate positive academic behaviors, and persist despite setbacks.
What are strong, positive mindsets?
What are simulations and role-playing?
2. read with a pencil/pen
3. re-read to find answers to text dependent questions
4. additional reading
What are the steps to close reading of a complex text?
1. what are the steps in your scientific method?
2. What are the advantages of this solution? can you provide some evidence?
3. what science rules should be followed in...?
What is accountable talk?
This part handles involuntary functions through its ________.
What is the Brian Stem and Reticular Formation?
These include establishing trusting relationships that instill a sense of belonging, holding high expectations for students, holding high expectations for students, and scaffolding challenging work so that students are able to reach high standards.
What are additional school and classroom practices that promote positive mindsets and increase academic tenacity?
Visual information
What are graphics?
1. identify key big ideas students need to learn from the text
2. start small to build confidence
3. address vocabulary and text structure
4. begin with toughest text first
5. develop logical, gradual, and progressive sequences of text dependent questions
6. identify which standards are addressed in the text
7. create quality, thought provoking culminating assessments
What is how to construct text dependent questions?
evaluate texts, gather informed evidence, reflect on and revise understanding, formulate arguments, and negotiate and defend understanding
The largest part of the cortex that processes information relating to memory, planning, decisions making, goal setting, and creativity.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
What are?
1. I belong in this academic community
2. My ability and competence grow with my effort
3. I can succeed at this
4. This work has value for me
Learning is facilitated when students have better attitudes and are more emotionally secure.
What is positive climate?
Assumed depth in student's disciplinary knowledge and literacy and cultural experiences
What are knowledge demands?
A structure that allows for the learning and interaction with science material to produce knowledge and understanding of complex texts, theories, and principles in our world.
What is the brain?