I have learned so much about the brain and education in the past few weeks reading Brain Rules and watching videos about how one learns and retains knowledge or keeps an audiences attention. I think the most fascinating factoid is how movement and learning go hand in hand to thinking and learning. It just proves to me how essential PE minutes are in stimulating the brain.
As I read more towards my Master's in Education, as a professional, I find more interesting reads towards my passion reads, in my personal life, and I am noticing that their is an underlying theme that resonates. Following your own personal joy in life and interests and having a growth mindset for expansion in life, help one to become a life long learner. I have been reading a lot of Abraham and Jerry and Esther Hicks books along the same line as The Secret. In the beginning I thought that there was really nothing in common with my work studies and my personal interest. I am coming to find that in every book and most reads there is a common denominator...following your true alignment system and letting that be your learning guide in life and in education. CRT: When reading and watching about Z. Hammond I realize that Caring and Prioritizing is my strong suit. I excel in this area by making my relationships with my students a priority. I like to meet with the families and have relationships with the students on topics that are not educationally related. I feel like this helps me engage the students when I know what they like and what peeks their interests as to make engagement fun and exciting. As much as I love to be engaging, it takes a lot of work and preparation to be relevant to the students and engage them in a manner that catches them off guard and grabs their attention. At my school site we are currently working on AVID goals when it comes to recognizing and expressing oral call and responses for attention snaggers and praising students with AVID cheers to encourage the positive in how learners are being successful in our classes. This builds moral and engages learners to refocus in a direction with reminders in prioritizing skills and strategies. We are working as a staff to create a climate that encourages a growth mind set and builds a commonality across grade levels to build trust and culture of empowering learners to become leaders. Digital Era: When it comes to technology I have many appreciations and many concerns for where we are with the unexplored territory of keeping up with the speed technology is taking. Technology rules and laws are so behind the times for keeping up with the use of technology in schools and with the adolescents in our communities. There are so few controls and so many liabilities when it comes to the lack of design in districts according to how technology is controled and how millions of apps are used and regulated. Their needs to be a curriculum adopted and taught to teacher and students to help guide the social expectations of how media is to be used. It is moving at such rapid speeds that it is treated as more of a trial and error method, instead of designing actions in advance and planing out options to lay the ground work proactively.
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Author: Monica D KnechtI am a teacher in NVUSD. It is my 12th year teaching and currently working as a TOSA as a Reading Specialist. Archives
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