Top Ten BRAIN BASED LEARNING Strategies!

Top Ten BRAIN-BASED LEARNING Strategies I use in my Class! Sean Taylor The Reading Sage 

1. Incorporate movement: Encourage movement and physical activity during learning, as it can enhance memory retention and concentration.
2. Use multisensory approaches: Engage multiple senses, such as sight, sound, and touch, to enhance learning and retention.
3. Foster curiosity: Encourage student curiosity by asking open-ended questions and providing opportunities for exploration and discovery.
4. Encourage collaboration: Promote collaboration and teamwork, as it can enhance learning and problem-solving skills.
5. Use storytelling: Use storytelling as a way to engage students and help them remember important concepts.
6. Provide regular feedback: Regular feedback helps students stay engaged and understand their progress, leading to improved learning outcomes.
7. Use technology: Use technology tools to enhance learning, such as interactive whiteboards, educational apps, and online resources.
8. Promote critical thinking: Encourage students to think critically and independently by asking thought-provoking questions and providing opportunities for reflection.
9. Connect learning to real-world experiences: Connect learning to real-world experiences to help students see the relevance of what they are learning.
10. Provide opportunities for choice: Provide students with opportunities for choice in their learning, such as project options or ways to demonstrate their understanding, as it can increase engagement and motivation.

By incorporating these brain-based learning strategies into the classroom, teachers can create a dynamic and engaging learning environment that promotes student success. 

Brain-based instructional practices can benefit academically behind, gifted, and special needs students by maximizing engagement, memory, learning, and retention, leading to accelerated learning and academic success for all students. Short, focused direct instruction through micro-lectures is essential, with students re-teaching collaboratively all micro-instruction using whole-brain teaching and Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures. Brain breaks are essential every 45 minutes to maximize fun, enjoyment and retention of new information. Total physical response (TPR) and multimodal-multisensory learning techniques, including auditory, visual, kinesthetic, and olfactory, enhance learning. Developing academic listening and speaking skills is crucial for building language, knowledge, critical thinking, and learning, requiring explicit teaching and modeling through cooperative learning structures and rhetorical activities. Keeping learning memorable, vibrant, authentic, fast-paced, fun, relevant, worksheet-free, challenging, flexible, silly, and diverse, while using daily brain breaks, getting up and moving, and connecting with students as a whole child are essential for academic success. Keeping abreast of the latest instructional practices and cognitive neuroscience of memory retention: encoding and retrieval is essential, as is being a lifelong learner.

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