Slide 1 Engaging the

Brain….Without Going Insane

Using the Strategy Ring to engage students‘brains.

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Slide 2 GAME Plan

n Goal - Participants will learn about the importance of engaging students’ brains and will participate in strategies designed to encourage active engagement.

n Activities –10+2, ABA, Numbered Heads Together

n Measure – Participation, Notesn Evaluation – Compass points

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Slide 3 The Brain Stem

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Slide 4 The Brain Stem

n Involuntary actions – blinking, breathing, heartbeat

n Also called “reptilian brain”n Collects and delivers sensory information to higher brain

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Slide 5 The Limbic System

Cerrebellum

Hippocampus

Amygdala

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Slide 6 Amygdala

n Gatekeepern Three levels of attentionn The need to BELONGn The need to be SAFE

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Slide 7 The Hippocampus

n Transferring memoriesn Making new memoriesn Inhibitionn Smelln Location

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Slide 8 The Cerebellum

n Movementn Balance

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Slide 9

—It's like a math co-processor. It's not essential for any activity ... but it makes any activity better. Anything we can think of as higher thought, mathematics, music, philosophy, decision-making, social skill, draws upon the cerebellum....“ Dr. Jay Giedd, National Institute of Mental Health

The Cerebellum

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Slide 10 Frontallobe

Temporallobe

Parietal lobe

Occipitallobe

Cerebellum

The Cerebrum

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Slide 11 The Frontal Lobe

• How we interact with our surroundings. • Our judgments on daily routines. • Our expressive language. • Assigns meaning to words we choose. • Involves word association. • Memory for habits and motor activities

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Slide 12 The Parietal Lobe

• Location for visual attention. • Location for touch perception. • Goal directed voluntary movements. • Manipulation of objects. • Integration of different senses that allows for

understanding a single concept.

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Slide 13 The Occipital Lobe

n Vision

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Slide 14 The Temporal Lobe

• Hearing • Memory • Visual perceptions. • Categorizing of objects. T

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Slide 16 Higher Level Thinking

n Can actually generate NEW neurons (neurogenesis)

n Adds dendrites n Increases the thickness of the myelin

sheath

Using the Gray Matter!

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Slide 17 Stimulating Environment Affects Learning

A child's ability to learn can increase or decrease by 25 percent or more, depending on whether he or she grows up in a stimulating environment.

www.brainconnection.com

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Slide 18 Stop! ABA activity

n Stand up for REVIEW!n Grab a partnern Decide who will be A and who will be Bn A speaks for 60 seconds, nonstopn B speaks for 90 seconds, nonstopn A speaks for 30 seconds, nonstop

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Slide 19 Two times of ENORMOUS brain growth and pruning:n During the first month of life, the number of

connections or synapses increases from 50 trillion to 1 quadrillion.

n If an infant's body grew at a comparable rate, his weight would increase from 8.5 pounds at birth to 170 pounds at one month old.

n Overproduction ends, pruning begins until about age 3

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Slide 20 Second cycle of growth and pruningn Dendritic growth spurt at age 11 in girls,

12 in boysn Pruning phase during adolescencen Age 13 – 18 lose 1% of gray matter per

yearn If you don’t use it, you lose it!

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Slide 21 The Teacher Effectn Quality of classroom instruction is most

significant factor in students’ brain development.

n Didactic instruction – teacher directedn Interactive instruction – student actively

engaged

Which type do you think grows dendrites?

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Slide 22 Sad Fact:

Failing to engage students actively can actually make students dumber.

Use it or lose it: If dendrites are not being used, they will be pruned.

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Slide 23 Implications for the classroom…

n Students interacting to increase emotional leveln Students talking, explaining to increase meaningn Students using various modalities

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Slide 24 Using the Strategy Ring:

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Slide 25 E - what Excites me about today’s learning? Things I will use?

N – what else do I Need to know to be able to continue the learning? What other information should I seek?

W – what Worries me about this process? Obstacles I may encounter? Concerns?

S – what are the next Steps we should take as an organization? What do I need to do next to be able to continue the learning?

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Slide 26

Bonny Buffingtonwww.Bonnybuffington.wikispaces.comKnox County ESC740-393-6767Bonny_b@treca.org

Q and A

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