Movement Trumps Sitting: Brain Science to Make training stick

Presenter:

Beverly Woolery

Excerpt from Article:Six Trumps: The Brain Science that Makes Training StickAuthor: Sharon Bowmanwww.bowperson.com

C1-Connections

Select a card from the deck, located on your table.

Introduce yourself to your table group.

The person with the highest card goes first: Stand and tell your table group, what is the most important fact you already know about the brain.

How can we expect people we teach to remember what we teach if we don’t know how they learn it, or even how to teach it

well?

To Trump (in a card game): To “win” with the best card, hand or

suit.

To Trump (in learning): To “win” with brain science principles that help students learn

better and remember more

Let’s shuffle the cards and deal the deck and begin the game!

C2-Concepts Six Brain Science Principles that trump traditional learning methods

1.Movement trumps sitting.

2.Talking trumps listening.

3.Images trump words.

4.Writing trumps reading.

5.Shorter trumps longer.

6.Different trumps same

Dr. John MedinaAuthor “Brain Rules”

Can you Trump this question??Thumbs up or Thumbs down

Movement, just going from sitting to standing or from standing to walking, increases cognitive function.

You Trump, if you agreed!!

C3-Concrete PracticeMovement trumps Sitting

Find someone from another table with the same suit as your card. Tell them why Movement trumps Sitting.

Pop Ups!

Stand up- Sit Down

C4-ConclusionRoll the Dice

Roll the dice

The lowest number goes first

Share with your table group a movement activity that you will include in your training and why