Increasing Brain Performance

Paper Summary:

The paper presents ten methods that teachers can use to create an environment that will prove to be the most advantageous for student success. The paper discusses how teachers can control the physical environment, incorporate movement into each lesson, provide students with a variety of different learning activities, incorporate techniques to retain student attention and can incorporate repetition. The paper also discusses the merits of teachers creating some type of emotional connection between the students and the material, of allowing students the opportunity to correct their own mistakes, providing immediate feedback and using rewards.

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"Educational systems would improve exponentially if everyone truly believed that the human brain could change structurally and functionally as a result of learning and experience. Learning is half genetic, and half environmental. The significance of this statistic is that we can have a huge impact on the successful learning in our students. Learning can be divided into two categories. These categories are explicit learning and implicit learning. Explicit learning is the type of learning that typically occurs in the classroom. It deals with things that are read, written, and talked about. This type of information is commonly conveyed through the use of lectures, textbooks, pictures, and videos. Implicit learning is real world learning. It is comprised of games, hands-on activities, experimental learning, and life experience (Jensen 2005)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Jensen, Eric, Teaching with the brain in mind, 2005, Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication-Data

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