How to Teach Based on Our Knowledge of the Brain (pt.1)

2023-07-24

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This episode switches gears a bit in order to focus on how to teach people to listen, attend, engage, learn and remember. There are 5 steps to this: Pre-exposure: covertly preparing students for future learning of content. This is done days, weeks or even months ahead of the teaching.Preview: this involves setting the stage for the content minutes or hours ahead. Priming: introducing words, concepts, or skills in advance then coming back to those moments before you teach. Review: Going over what students learned.Revision: Reconstructing the learning. Correcting err...

This episode switches gears a bit in order to focus on how to teach people to listen, attend, engage, learn and remember. There are 5 steps to this:

Pre-exposure: covertly preparing students for future learning of content. This is done days, weeks or even months ahead of the teaching.
Preview: this involves setting the stage for the content minutes or hours ahead.
Priming: introducing words, concepts, or skills in advance then coming back to those moments before you teach.
Review: Going over what students learned.
Revision: Reconstructing the learning. Correcting errors. Reteaching

Today Lauren reviews each of these steps in depth and gives examples on how to apply this in your life and teaching.

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