The Educational Context for My Driving Question My driving question is “What are the effects of Whole Brain Teaching on Student Engagement?”. I just returned from the 3 day Whole Brain Teaching National Conference in Las Vegas where the focus was answering the seven questions above. It was well worth the time and expense to attend and I am really excited to implement the strategies I learned. Whole Brain Teaching is an approach designed toward maximizing student engagement and focusing on on the way the brain learns to help students retain more information than the standard lecture model. Whole Brain Teaching is a highly interactive form of instruction that delivers information to students in short chunks using hand gestures to emphasize key information. Students then teach what they just learned to their partners using the same gestures.
One of the biggest challenges I’ve faced as a teacher is keeping students engaged. As we all know, when students aren’t engaged, they often choose either off task behaviors which affect their own learning, or worse, choose disruptive behaviors which affect everyone’s learning. That is one of the primary reasons that Whole Brain Teaching strategies were developed. Whole Brain Teaching is a system that includes strategies and methods for classroom management, character education, lesson design and delivery, writing, reading, critical thinking and ways to deal with “beloved rascals”.
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Lori
6/29/2016 06:37:40 pm
How exciting that you attended the conference! I completely agree that learning only happens when the students are engaged. I've watched some videos about Whole Brain teaching and it looks very interesting. I especially am interested in how the physical movements reinforce learning. Can't wait to see what you discover!
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