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Assignment July 16, 2009  12 Teaching Practices  1. Give kids time for reflection.  2. Moderate the amount of information given out at one time.  3. Encourage students to use multiple senses when learning.  4. Teach students how to plan what they are going to do to learn new information.  5. Give students time to make plans and execute those plans.  6. Give the control of learning over to the students as much as possible.  7. Encourage students to discuss leaning (social interaction).  8. Teach students that sometimes copying is ok and helpful but sometimes it isn’t.  9. Teach and encourage students to put learning into their own language (words). They will remember because they made it.  10. Ascertain students’ prior knowledge and use it.  11. Create prior knowledge building experiences for both the class and the teacher so there is a common starting point for learning.  12. Use stories (either teacher created or better student created) to help students learn and assimilate new information.

Connections to Article from pnas.org  The article reinforced for me the importance of encouraging education for children at a young age. Teaching children tools to learn better perhaps can help level the playing field for children living in poverty. These children need an especially safe school environment in which to learn. They can’t be worried about failing. Teaching them to work with the stress that “disequilibrium” brings to advance learning would be especially important for this group.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;"> Since the study shows a decrease in working memory these students need to be taught to use what they do have to the best of their abilities. They need to learn the value of creating and executing a learning plan and the importance for doing so…how it will help them. It is important to encourage them to put their learning into their own words since this will help them cement the leaning for them. Again, teaching them why (important for anyone since people are more likely to do something if they know the reason why). Since language is so important in creating learning a classroom needs to be a place of highly rich language. If the students are not able to provide this language then it is dependent on the teacher to provide it.

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