Brain Compatible Learning

By Vicki

LePorte

School Trivia!!! How many students are

enrolled in LHS today? How many years has

Mrs. LePorte been teaching at the high school?

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

At the rate at which knowledge is growing, by the time a child born today graduates from college, the amount of knowledge in the world will be four time as great. By the time that child is fifty years old, it will be 32 times as great and 98% of everything known in the world will have been learned since the time he was born.

Dr. Robert Helliard, US Federal Communications Commission.

Who are the gifted ? Einstein was four years old before he could

speak and seven before he could read. Isaac Newton did poorly in grade school Beethoven’s music teacher once said of him,”

As a composer, he is hopeless!” When Thomas Edison was a boy his teachers

told him he was too stupid to learn anything. F.W. Woolworth got a job in a dry good store

when he was 21, but his employers would not let him wait on a customer because he, “didn’t have enough sense.”

A newspaper editor fired Walt Disney because he had, “No good ideas!”

Louis Pasteur was rated as mediocre in chemistry when he attended the Royal College.

Abraham Lincoln entered the Black Hawk War as a Captain and came our a private.

Winston Churchill failed the sixth grade.

Brain Facts

The brain is the physical part of our body you can touch - the anatomy.

The mind is your feeling, perceptions, thinking, will and reasoning.

You can put a brain in a jar but not a mind.

Every second, several billion bits of information pass through our brains.

Information travels through trillions of neural connections at speeds up to 250 miles per hour.

The brain generates 25 watts of power while a person is awake.

The brain uses 20% of the body’s energy, but only makes up 2% of the body’s weight.

The brain has about 200 billion neurons. The brain can only concentrate on one things

at a time.

The weight of things. The brain of a 6 month old child is 1/2 the

weight of an adult. The brain of a 2 1/2 year old child is 3/4 it’s

adult weight. The brain of a 5 1/2 year old is 9/10 the

weight of an adult. Human brains are getting larger. Our brain

weighs about 1/2 lbs. more than our great grandparent’s.

The heaviest brain weight recorded was 4.43 lbs. by Ivan Turgener, a Russian writer who died in 1883.

Food for thought! Protein and water help the brain in thinking. Turkey, tuna and carbohydrates slow the

brain. Can’t learn any thing new unless you can

connect it to something you already know. Talking to another student increases retention

up to 50%. Rats that play learn more than rats that

watch. You can think 500 wpm, only speak 150 wpm. Metacognative - Thinking about your thinking. Strongest force in the brain is emotion.

Average Retention Rates

5%

10%

20%

30%

50%

75%

90%

Lecture

Reading

Audio Visual

Demonstration

DiscussionGroup

Practice byDoing

Teach Others

Fragile Brain

Normal Brain

Brain Anger

Alcohol Use

A 38 y/o - 17 years of heavy weekend drinking

Heavy Nicotine & Caffeine Abuse

45 y/o -- 27 year history of heavy use3 packs of cigarettes and 3 pots of coffee daily

Attention Deficit Disorder

Severe Head Trauma

There is always hope!

Questions ?