Learning Strategies
This is when you ask for the help you need from a teacher.
What is self-advocacy?
This is what GTD stands for.
What is Get Things Done?
This controls your involuntary body functions like breathing and digestion.
What is the brain stem?
This is one strategy for tracking your upcoming tests, projects, and assignments.
What is using a planner, sticky notes, google calendar, or notes app?
This is one of our class norms.
Answers will vary.
Reading the directions, process of elimination, and double checking are examples of this.
What is test taking strategies?
A hexagon is a polygon. True or False?
True!
This controls your coordination and movement.
What is the cerebellum?
When you believe you can improve, change, and get better at something.
What is a growth mindset?
One of Mrs. Englert's favorite candies!
What are Twizzlers, Swedish Fish, OR Mike & Ikes?
These are three different ways you can study for a test or quiz.
What are. . .answers will vary. (We will decide if your answer is correct.)
What is 7, 6, 5, 8?
What is the hippocampus?
When your emotions are in control and you can't make the best logical decisions.
What is "when you have flipped your lid"?
When you breathe in for 4, hold for 4, release for 4, and hold for 4 to calm your amygdala.
What is box breathing?
A strategy for reading and interacting with the text where you add notes, symbols, and colors to enhance your understanding of what you have read.
What is annotation or annotating?
234,567 divided by 10
What is 23,456.7?
This controls your emotions.
What is the amygdala?
This is where the Week at a Glance is located.
What is on Toddle, under the notification bell or announcements, and within an email from Mrs. Edwards?
This part of the brain controls listening, seeing, hearing, and speaking.
What is the cerebrum?
This is a strategy where you work in 10 minute chunks. You often used this at the end of Study Skills classes.
What is Power 30 Planning or time blocking?
A bag contains 6 yellow marbles, 3 red marbles, and 8 blue marbles.
This controls your decision-making and executive functioning skills. It does not fully develop until the age of 27 or so.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
When you reflect on a mistake and think about how you can do things differently, it sparks in your brain in a _______ _________.
What is a second flash?
This is the name of the starter activity we often use to transition into class.
What is Spot the Difference or Hidden Pictures?