This document provides guidelines for effective brain-based learning and lesson planning. It discusses that the art of teaching is assisting discovery. The top 10 guidelines for planning emphasize making lessons fun, accounting for individual brain differences, and using active learning strategies over lecture. When planning lessons, teachers should consider strategies for the beginning, middle, and end of the class period to engage students. A variety of activation, acquisition, application, and assessment strategies are presented to help make lessons engaging for students.

1. Brain-Based Learning: A Teaching in Science and Art Christie Gayheart Jefferson Middle Midland Public

2. Teaching: A Science & Art The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery. ~Mark Van Doren

3. Reflect on Your Own Lessons What strategies are you already using? Which strategies do you wish to know more about? How could you become more proficient?

4. Top 10 Guidelines for Planning Needs to be Fun!!! Brains are unique. Practice does not make perfect. Rehearsal is essential for retention. Lecture = lowest degree of retention. Working memory has limited capacity. Past experience affects new learning. Emotions affect all learning aspect. Brain seeks patterns for meaning. Learning engages the entire person (cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains).

5. Unit Planning (Wolfe, P. 55, 69)

6. Lesson Planning (Wolfe, P. 76-77)

7. No matter the style…the lesson components fit! (Sousa, 277-278)

8. When planning…Timing matters!!! Consider what you will do when: “Prime-time-1” (First 10-15 minutes) New material “Down-time” (15-30 minutes into hour) Practice “Prime-time-2” (30-50 minutes into hour) Closure (Sousa, 90)

9. Making Lessons an Art

10. Activate Toolbox What I know about… KWL or KLEW Brilliant Thinking Wheel Active Reading Card: Predicting- (Reciprocal Teaching Cooperative Learning Activity) Reading Guides: Pre-reading Ideas Think-pair-share KWL Mind map

11. Acquire Ideas Direct teaching Mini lecture Video clip Jigsaw Text reading Problem-based learning Toolbox Vocabulary Wheel Active Reading Cards (Reciprocal Teaching Cooperative Learning Activity) Lesson Inspection Brain Saver Event Web

12. Apply, Practice, Formative Assessment Ideas Venn Diagrams Note taking Word Web Pop quiz Experiments Projects Problem solving Toolbox Review KWL or KLEW Review Active Reading Cards Review Lesson Inspection VENN Diagram Web Template Exit Cards: Thoughts/Facts/Solving

13. Summative Assessment, Closure and Reflection Ideas Revisit KWL or KLEW Post reading/writing reflections Exit cards/Ticket out Mind maps/webs Presentations Demonstrations Toolbox KWL or KLEW Reading/Video/Demo guides Brain Saver Active Reading Cards (Summarizing) VENN Diagram Web template

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