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For Teachers!
For Everyone!
Most anyone with a tween girl can attest to this...
(Below is the link to the social media guidelines published by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The article above mentions the guidelines, but I had trouble finding them initially.)
For Everyone!
What does your brain need from you in order to learn?
It needs you to:
1. pay attention! Become engrossed in the learning. Accept it. Get into it!
2. keep repeating the information. Get your brain ready for the information, review it, revise it!
3. limit the information it stores. No cramming! Your brain can only move so fast. Go slow and take breaks to absorb the information you want to learn.
4. build upon previous experiences to make a logical judgment or conclusion. Use what you know to help you learn new things.
5. understand that you will learn different topics better at different times of the day. Yes, this is hard to control, but you CAN stimulate your brain by moving. Movement will produce amines, proteins that stimulate the readiness of your brain.
6. review feedback to learn from your mistakes. Reread that essay or test your teacher corrected. Take in the corrections. Think about them. Try to figure out where you went wrong.
7. understand that your emotional state may affect your learning. Cortisol, norepinephrine, and dopamine are chemicals in your brain that stimulate memory. You can produce these chemicals by doing activities where you feel a slight bit of risk (e.g. explain something to the class), excitement (e.g. complete a project that you really want to do), urgency (e.g. work under a deadline), and/or pleasure (e.g. let the aroma of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies surround you).
All of the previous “brain needs” are elaborated on in: Jensen, E. (2005). Teaching with the brain in mind. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.