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Brain Rule #4 Presentation on Attention
- 1. THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME FOR THE NEXT TWO HOURS OF YOUR LIFE. I HOPE TO ENTERTAIN YOU AND MAYBE YOU’LL LEARN SOMETHING. BRAIN RULES PRESENTATION, CHAPTER 4
- 2. Evin Shinn M.Ed Candidate, Seattle Pacific University @baritoneblogger
- 3. TEN MINUTES. Medina, p. 74, (2008)
- 4. HOW LONG?
- 5. Classroom Timers | www.online-stopwatch.com
- 6. NOVEL STIMULI. Medina, p. 76, (2008) ≠
- 7. Medina, p. 79, (2008) | www.youtube.com/soulpancake FRIDAY DO NOW PROMPT: Write about the video. What would you do in this situation? Inspiring Videos That Explore Joy, Laughter, Death, and Life NOVEL STIMULI.
- 8. NOVEL STIMULI. Medina, p. 76, (2008) SOMETIMES, I GET EXCITED WHEN I SEE YOU PUT A NEW POSTER UP IN THE CLASS, BUT THEN I’M LIKE, OH, IT’S LEARNING. Jordan, 8th Grader Basketball Extraordinaire and Regular Son-I-Wish-I-Had
- 9. MULTITASKING DOESN’T EXIST. Medina, p. 84, (2008)
- 10. MULTITASKING DOESN’T EXIST. Medina, p. 84, (2008)
- 11. Works Cited Lemov, D. (2010). Vegas. Teach like a champion: 49 techniques that put students on the path to college (pp. 141-143). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Medina, J. (2008). Attention. Brain rules: 12 principles for surviving and thriving at work, home, and school (pp. 71-94). Seattle, WA: Pear Press. Online-Stopwatch. (n.d.). Online Stopwatch. Retrieved October 24, 2013, from http:// www.online stopwatch.com/ SoulPancake. (n.d.). SoulPancake. Retrieved October 24, 2013, from http://soulpancake.com/
Editor's Notes
- Something I say almost every day in my classroom.I use PowerPoint in my classroom every day and I intentionally make it boring. Why? Because I want students paying attention to me, then what is behind me.Technology is not a crutch, nor should it ever place strong teaching practices.My job is to make them want to learn something and not feel like they are learning. Best Moments in the Class? When students never notice the clock…Teaching is “to teach and delight” – Sir Philip Sidney.
- Evin Shinn, 8th Grade Language Arts TeacherTeacher Leadership – My lens is teacher learning which enables student learning.Pic: 1st year teaching, read a historical fiction novel and the students created talk shows about life during the Klondike Era.
- John Medina talks about the fact that even though most college lectures are STILL 50 minutes long, most of us tune out by the first 15 minutes. Think about all of that lost learning time. As teachers, we cannot afford that lost time simply ‘talking’. Instead, we need to ask, does this assignment REALLY need 25 minutes?
- So how long should the Do Now be? My rule is until the noise is a dull roar. With that being said, I have a timer in my classroom that I use to help them keep track of time left.
- Medina writes that they have known for years that the unusual, unpredictable, or distinctive -- these are huge ways to attract and keep students attention. Middle schoolers love games. So I had them play a round of pyramid. A game show in which they know nothing about since it was before their time. One student faces the projector and tries to get their partner to name as many vocabulary words in 75 seconds. Yep, it’s a good time. And then, they switch with a more fun category, like Miley Cyrus song titles or Hannah Montana song titles or thinks associated with Miley Cyrus. I’m a bit obsessed with Miley Cyrus – but it’s novel.
- Remember that Medina said that “Emotions get our attention”, so on Fridays, my goal is to get kids to laugh, cry, or a combination of both in order to keep their attention off of the weekend and onto the learning at hand. I use videos like this to help with that. Check it out. It also creates a sense of “Vegas” an element that Doug Lemov identifies as one of 49 techniques that put students on the path to college. It’s a “sparkle, the moment during class when you might observe some production.”
- Finally, Medina tells us that our brain cannot multitask. That is pay thoughtful attention to more than one thing at a time. In my effort to create the best lesson plans, we started the novel Speak