BEST PRACTICES
ATTENTION
TESTING
ENGAGEMENT
NEUROMYTHS
100

This is the time of class in which students generally learn and remember the best.

What is the beginning

100

This is the current level of retrieval....not necessarily the same as learning.

What is accessibility?

100

Self - assessing

What is a good way of moving information into long term memory

100

Using drawing to present material

What is an alternate way of engaging students

100

 When this "term" is introduced, it leads to students making errors in a way thats more effective for enduring learning

What is "desirable difficulties"


k.klein small

200

This is the strategy where students are taught concepts and asked to recall them a few days later.

What is spacing.

200

Name of the zone that results from tasks with the ideal amount of arousal that result in optimal performance.

What is Zone of Proximal Discomfort?

200

Reflection questions on the effectiveness of the strategies students used to prepare for the assessment.  

What should be included on every test?

200

What can be offered to students to help increase engagement?

Choice in subject matter or assessment

200

While there is a _____ _______ to learning, students abilities are not fixed, but rather, continually developing, shaped by the learning experiences they have.

What is genetic component


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300

How does a teacher better suit content rather than learning styles in the classroom?

Teach and assess in multiple modalities.

300

The person who owns the responsibility for a student being attentive.

Who is the teacher?

300

Successful learning all stems from the act of what?

Trying to recall informatoin 

300

This threat creates stress that inhibits learning.  Teachers should actively work to validate who their students are instead.


- Gisclair

What is identity threat?



- Gisclair

300

This common neuromyth leads people to believe that they are either left brain or right brain person.

What is hemispheric dominance?

400

The practice of mixing in questions and topics from earlier in the year throughout the rest of the year.

What is Interleaving?

400

Design lessons in order for students to make emotional connections to their own lives and see relevancy.

What is one way to increase attention?

400

One benefit of formative assessment is?

The feed back it gives the teacher about how both the class and individual students are doing so they can alter their teaching or pacing accordingly. 

400

Classroom management/managing behaviors is 90 percent _______.

What is curriculum?
400

The ______ and the ________ of class will be remembered most. 

beginning, end 


Isabelle Goulder

500

The practice of starting and ending with the most important information for students to retain.

The Primacy Recency Effect

500

When a teacher allows students correct their own work and appropriately struggle to increase deep, lasting learning. 

What is Scaffold Feedback?

500

Use this strategy frequently and reward effort.

Formative Assessment

500

The ability to recall, apply and connect. 

What is prior knowledge.

Isabelle Goulder

500

The types of work you demand of your brain, including the quality of effort and amount of effort.

What is the best way to control how your brain grows?

Catie Caywood

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