Teaching with the Brain in Mind

Teaching with the Brain in Mind

Ready, Set, THINK!

Experience is Job One

Brain Finding Imperative

Exercise

•Tell a relevant story•Show a relevant video•Do a relevant activity

Sleep IS Important!!

Sleep Findings

Sleep deprived children are unable to process and use information as well as those not sleep deprived.

Stryker’s 2001

Recommendations:

Sleeping after learning grows TWICE as many neural dendrites as just learning the material

Average daily sleep needs:

Adolescents – Teens8.5-9.5 hours

Newborn Babies0-2 months: 10.5-18.5 hoursInfants2-12 months: 14-15 hours

Toddler 12-18 months: 13-15 hours18 months-3 years: 12-14 hours

Preschoolers3-5 years: 11-13 hours

1st - 8th Graders (5-12 years)9-11 hours

Mature :On average: 7-9 hours

Sleep Patterns for the Adolescent Brain

•Middle & high school students’ bodies tend to stay up late and sleep in.

• > 50% of high school students in REM sleep after 3 minutes, should take 90 minutes to get there -- Brown U. study

The myelin sheaths surrounding neurons are not fully developed until early age 25 to 30

Use of artificial neurotransmitters, i.e. caffeine, during the first twelve years may interfere with the nervous systems ability to naturally make them for the rest of a person’s life!!

Recommendation:

Brain Finding Imperative

...Refined Sugar, everything of food value has been removed except the carbohydrates-pure calories, without vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, enzymes or any of the other elements

that make up food

Video

15 13 11

9 7 5

Memory Space is Developmental

Plus or Minus 2

Chunking as a Strategy

Video

Hooks for Information

schema

Emotions

Attention Please

Novelty

Rule of 7

Curse of KnowingExercise

Sleep Experience

Attention

BrainNeeds

Chunking

Key Sources• www.brainrules.net• Nerds.unl.edu/brain

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learned today.

• For more information, please contact:

Dr. Ron Bonnstetter rjb@unl.edu

Kirsten Smith ksmith@lps.org

Fred Goerisch goerishch@d261.k12.id.us