Six Sexy Phases
This is how we first notice information before it gets moved to our immediate memory.
What is sensory register?
The memory trek is made of many steps, but there are this many major phases.
What is three?
Goodwin says there's a difference between frameworks, which list what is important, and these, which capture how things work.
What are models?
We use models to diagnose and solve problems, similar to how doctors use a model of this body system to understand how blocked arteries cause heart attacks.
What is the circulatory system?
Madeline Hunter observed that this model is incredibly simple in conceptualization but...
incredibly complex in application.
The external stimuli that make it past our brain’s mental filters tend to be of these two varieties.
What are emotions and curiosity?
Goodwin states that this is where the "real action" is in a classroom.
What is students' brains?
To help students commit to learning, Goodwin says that we must help students answer the question, "What's in it for __?"
Me
The author says that teaching without learning is like this commonly heard phrase.
What is a tree falling in the woods with no one around to hear it?
When you first begin to use this student learning model in your classroom, it may feel a bit like this.
What is clumsy or mechanistic (or awkward or contrived)?
The six phase learning model is based around the three stages of this brain process.
What is memory?
Goodwin states that forgetting is as important as this process.
What is remembering?
Many of these frameworks remind Goodwin of this famous author's quip about a camel being a “horse created by committee.”
Who is Mark Twain?
"Teaching is no less complicated than heart surgery. We might think of it as a _____."
What is a noninvasive form of brain surgery?
Goodwin warns that in addition to a heap of promise, models carry with them this peril.
What is getting stuck with the model?
In this phase of the learning model, students actively engage with new knowledge, such as through a question-and-answer session or close reading.
What is Phase 3 (Focus on New Knowledge)?
To help students move information to their long-term memory, Goodwin suggests they engage in these two types of practice.
What is distributed practice and retrieval practice?
What is multiple?
"If all we do is mindlessly follow a checklist, we run the risk of becoming what folks back in the Midwest where I grew up call '______' teachers, scattering knowledge to the flock without concern for who gets it and who doesn’t."
What are chicken feed?
This famous billionaire couple stated that their foundation’s recent work to improve teacher evaluations had not managed to change learning outcomes for students.
Who are Bill and Melinda Gates?
An early study found that employing the elements of mastery learning in classrooms helped 75% of students learn at the same levels as the top ___ of students in a control group.
What is 25%? OR What is quarter?
An important “flip” happens when we design lessons around learning, not simply teaching. For starters, we begin to view our classrooms through this.
What are the eyes of our students?
What is mastery learning?
What did the author mean when he compared wide-ranging, unwieldy frameworks to a camel being a "horse created by committee"?
I don't know :(
To apply this model consistently in classrooms, teachers need plenty of this.
What are supportive feedback and coaching?