What is the topic?

ConcentrationSpan

VOCABULARYConcentration span: the lengthof time a person can concentrateon something

Brain-based learning: theory is based on the structure and function of the human brain.

Anxiety: a feeling of worry, nervousness or unease about.

Claim: state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.

Curiosity: a strong desire to know or learn something.

Implementation: the process of putting a decision or plan into effect.

Defense: the action of defending from or resisting attack.

Approach: come near or nearer to (someone or something) in distance or time.

Headway: forward movement or progress, especially when this is slow or difficult.

Pupil: student

QUESTİONS

FOR

VOCABULARY

1) They appear to be making ………in bringing the rebels under control.

A) approach

B) headway

B

2) The population will ....... 12 million by the end of decade.

A) brain-based learning

B) approach

B

3) She was responsible for the ………….. of the plan.

A) implementation

B) headway

A

4) Not every employee is eligible to ……..unfair dismissal.

A) theory

B) claim

B

5) Regular exercise is your best ………. against fatigue.

a)Concentration span

b)Defense

B

6) A child is naturally full of ………., and wants to know about everything.

a)pupil

b)curiosity

B

7)She tried to sound happy, but I could hear the……….. in her voice.

a)anxiety

b)pupil

A

8)There is a very relaxed atmosphere between staff and …………at the school.

a)pupil

b)defense

A

9)Children’s ………………are very short.

a)concentration span

b)anxiety

A

CONCENTRATİON SPANConcentration is the ability to direct one’s attention in a accordance with one’s will.

It means control of the attention.

Concentration span is the length of time a person can concentrate on something.

The length of time that a learner can concentrate is a crucial aspect of how learning can be structured. In particular, the length of time for which teacher expect their pupils to listen to them can be critical.

Children concentration span has two emotion that anxiety and curiosity.

1)Anxiety

Anxiety is a state of defense and it decrease concentration for short time.

For instance, If teachers create an anxienty ,students can focus course. İt is not true.Because this focus is very short.After a while students forget topics.

Anxiety Results

2)Curiosity

Another emotion is curiosity.The most unsuccessful educator cannot take the students attention to the topic though the interested topics of the students.

Curiosity Results

Also, the average concentration of an American adult is said to be seven minutes, which accounts for the time between adverts in American television programmes.

British adult concentration span is slightly longer at 11 minutes , although elsewhere it is suggested that the average adult has a concentration span of 20 minutes.

Pedagog Adem Güneş says:The most unsuccessful educator cannot take the students attention to the topic through the interested topics of the students.

DETRACTORS

Bruer (1997) gives a comprehensive and rigorously supported argument against the claims made by some of brain-based theory.

Bruer says of some of the ideas which are central to brain theory.

These ideas have been around for a decade, are often based on misconceptions and overgeneralizations of what we know about brain.

Bruer is not alone in his concern over the claims made for brain based learning.

Ravitch (2000) calls brain-based learning a troubling trend and a ‘distortion of what cognitive scientists have learnt about how children learn’.

Jensen’s worldwide best-seller, Teaching with the Brain in Mind in many ways seen as the leading text of the brain based approach to teaching, has been heavily criticised for its style over content approach.

Despite having some detractors, many estabilished educators and researches give credence to the theory and practice encompassed with in the broad scope of the brain-based learning movement.

Susan Greenfield, an eminent and well-know researcher of the brain, writing in The Times Educational Supplement (TES 2005), says that:

Brain researcher is poised, if it can rise to the challenge, to make the biggest contribution of all to how the brain learns through the environment…

Now more than ever before educationalists and brain scientists need to work together.

In the classroom

Work hard to promote positive relationships.

Use activities that challenge different ‘brain’ strengths-left/right brain.

Try to give insight into the ‘bigger picture’ and draw attention to patterns in and between different areas of the curriculum.

Work towards a learning environment where there is:

Relaxed alertness

Orchestrated immersion

Active processing.

SUMMARY

If you want to have concentration of students, you should create curiosity, so students concentration span will be long.

Brain based learning very important for children because their activities that challenge different ‘brain’ strengths-left/right brain.

1)What are two emotion in the concentration span?

Anxiety

Curiosity

2)Is it true students create anxiety?

Not true

3) What is the brain-based learning?

A) The length of time a person can concetrate on something

B) Theory is based on the structure and function of the human brain

B

Who is Bruer? What is the name of his theory?

A) Educator-quantum

B) Researcher_brain-based

B