Learning Environments
A place where students feel safe to engage without fear for their physical safety
What is a Safe Enviornment?
You must be intentional with instruction
What is Forgetting is Natural: Memory?
Teaching skills with real-life context
What is Context is Everything?
Engaging students in activity (ex role-play)
What is Active Learning?
When you use the brain to remember something (ex flashcards, exit tickets)
What is Retrieval Practice?
Where a teacher shows the exact schedule so students know what's going on
What is a Routine Environment?
Where you must pay attention closely and make sure that students understand
What is Review is Critical?
Trying to build movement into your Class
What is We Need Movement?
Spacing out to learn material better (ex breaking up learning into sessions)
What is Spaced Practice?
Breaking down a big task into many little ones (ex Explicitly stating success criteria)
A classroom where a teacher can make quiet observations to give students a chance to speak up
What is an Emotional Enviornment?
Teach 2-3 concepts, then take a break to practice, then go back to more teaching
What is We Learn in Chunks?
Thinking about your thinking
What is major in Metacognition?
Connecting new info to old info (ex Summarize and rewrite)
What is Elaboration?
Real-world examples to help students comprehend topic (ex Graphic organizers and visual aids)
What are Concrete Examples and Models?
An engaging classroom with materials and a good seating arrangement
What is a Physical Environment?
Allowing students to show when they learn and comprehend the topic
What is Students Learn at Different Speeds?
Stress in the classroom can significantly inhibit learning. What can combat this?
What is a Brain Break?
Mixing 2 subjects together (ex in math we use English to read problems)
What is Interleaving?
Teach in chunks, when they master a concept you help them less (ex read short vocab list, discuss it, then take a quiz)
What is Scaffolding?
Creating an engaging relationship with students to promote learning
What is a Social Enviornment?
Give students a choice on if they want to do the review or not
What is Students Learn at Different Levels?
Finding ways to make a review game collaborative rather than competitive
Combining visual and verbal info to process in different parts of the brain (ex Create a concept map or timeline)
What is Dual Coding?
Being aware of what you know vs what you've learned (ex Taking a test)