Effectively elevate attentiveness and comprehension in children. In a career encompassing urban and private venues, Brian Pack details how to arouse the brain's reward circuitry to bolster classroom focus and promote inquiry and analysis. Click on one or more of the 28 well-researched chapters - over 300 citations! |
Without formal training in education
methodology, they ran the class, created a joyful and energetic classroom,
functioned as a team – assertive, interactive, and engaged.....more
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The National Institute of Mental Health
reports that thirty percent of girls and twenty percent of boys, or nearly
seven million teens, had a depressive episode that significantly impaired
their mental function.
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Schools that mix lectures,
well-structured team-based assignments, student-led discussions, coupled with
gross movement, hand-eye, and cardiovascular activities significantly
maximize cognitive functionality in children.
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Meaningful experiences in class that
touch base with student patterning along with purposeful and stimulating
homework improves prediction skills and facilitates the dendritic sprouting
that enhances retention.
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They found that teenagers who enjoy
exercising their talents and engage in studying tend to be happier, building
psychological capital for the spectrum of opportunities they can pursue later
in life.
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Eye contact raises the level of
engagement. Furthermore, the laughter mechanism employs the neurotransmitter
dopamine, impacting the neural circuitry of human socialization and mood,
encompassing friendship, love, affection, and perhaps anger.
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Parents and teachers note: children,
particularly teens, are validation-starved. Mood and behavior can be media
inspired, and those that engage in lewd and violent behavior likely saw it
role-modeled on television, computer, and movie screens!
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Extemporaneous speaking should
be practiced and cultivated.
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Two-thirds do not appreciate school, the
significance of well-articulated content areas. Nevertheless, students want
to be empowered as engaged agents in the classroom, validated as capable
thinkers, and relevant amidst their peers.....more
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Children differ in psychomotor and learning
readiness, but schools in my era were most secure using the one-size-fits-all
approach to keep the campus safe, at times lacking sensitivity to the diverse
socioeconomic and developmental thinking potentials within the school
community.
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The MIT group found that the most
productive and creative situations include:
Substantial number of ideas, Dense
interactions, and Diversity of ideas – everyone in the group contributing
ideas and reactions.
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Gaining trust is crucial since it
increases oxytocin production and motivates students to perform tasks.
Furthermore, classrooms that nurture trust between peers and teacher are
validating, and likely to be engaging and joyful.
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Education is a personal transaction among students
and between the teachers and students as they work together.
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Assertiveness is at its best when they
are in control of the dialogue, defending opinions, poised, expressive, and
spontaneous in the discussion. It maintains a stream of conscious juggling
values and concepts, incorporating pattern and prediction elements in their
brain.....more
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The processes associated with reading or
writing affect the brain in many regions encompassing synchronized cognition
in multiple areas: comprehension, social awareness, speech, and visual
acuity.
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Students become autonomous, articulate, and
intellectually mature when they collectively govern themselves and pursue tasks
as they see fit. This results in a process of social inquiry
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To derive the benefits of a cooperative
effort, the teacher must have a well-articulated plan in terms of (a)
assignment prompts and directions and (b) the group behaviors expected in
such a configuration. From the structure created a wide range of assignments
can be expedited that maximize engagement.
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The lecture is often suited for the more
motivated, intelligent, and auditory oriented individuals with many becoming less
attentive over time. Incorporating an assortment of activities in the
classroom will sustain the level of novelty to keep students motivated throughout
the period.
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Positive interdependence is a factor that
helps children recognize the relevance of content areas and derive a sense of
ownership. The team works around a self-styled philosophical statement, which
holds the members to a standard while sharing resources and executing roles.
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Well-articulated assignments coupled
with the feedback script and images are primes that motivate groups to
achieve a goal and take pride in their accomplishment.
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The range of possibilities extend from
simple worksheets to complex projects that use resources in other parts of
the room or the building, with students delegating responsibilities, working
relatively independent of the teacher.
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Members are held accountable for their
contributions when performing tasks as well as being part of the task
completion process because each has a role. The ADD and ADHD student finds it
easier to remain focused under this condition and is encouraged as his or her
talents are acknowledged.
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Every student had a personalized
notebook and used the accompanying textbook to answer the questions in the
blanks. Students were preoccupied the whole period, and I gave one on one
help as needed. This engagement would
prove to be their greatest academic accomplishment
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You learn those skills by interacting with your peers,
learning what's acceptable, what's not acceptable.
They want this thing to keep going, so they're willing
to go the extra mile to accommodate others' desires.
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Young men are inundated with violent and
misogynist images from the media. Young women are strongly influenced by ever
pervasive messages that place extreme value on body image are consumed by
these thoughts.....more
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While there is rapid neural activity
when we engage with the Internet, attention circumvents the natural path of memory
processing because of the minimal skill needed to navigate.....more
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The designer of video games keeps
participants at a “regime of competence”, analogous to effective classroom
instruction when subjects are delivered at the edge of student abilities: not
too easy, but not too hard.....more
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Successful adults have a rich play life.
Adults that don't play are often inflexible,
humorless, and react to stress with violence and depression.
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The cerebellum is not just a motor
'control panel' but also a switchboard connecting the reasoning and judgment
features of the frontal cortex as well as the emotional midbrain areas and is
consequently tied to learning......more
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Through the physical interactions
associated with rough-and-tumble and explorative play along with associated risks,
children learn to be empowered as valued members of a group through the social
interaction......more
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Bunge and her graduate students found
that the reasoning ability of seventeen 7-9-year-olds improved thirty-two
percent from a regimen of board and card games after eight weeks of after
school sessions. She concluded: "All parts of intelligence are
malleable. They're all in the brain, and all of the brain shows plasticity".....more
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Schools are authorized to provide an
environment that maximizes the academic and physical wellness of children.
Procuring a complement of equipment and space that stimulates neurological
growth should be considered by school boards and administrators for use
throughout the school day.....more
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Research and anecdotal evidence suggest
that exploration, play, and rough-and-tumble experiences are necessary not
only for anger management but also impulse control extending into adulthood.....more
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty,
and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
Carl Rogers from On Becoming a Person, 1961
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