This makes me smile - I used to work retail and our manager used to say," I am going to tell a wonderful story here!" Or "It's just not talking to me." Great advice!
Usable classroom translation: make regular changes in your classroom such as seating arrangements, wall displays
Usable classroom translation: Give students the big picture; visually represent the connections between previous knowledge and new learning; indicate relationships among learning goals.
Usable classroom translation: Creativity can be taught but it builds on a body of content knowledge being mastered. Interweave information and thinking in all content areas; show real world applications, move away from simple, single-answer problems to encourage divergent solutions.
Interesting targets to teach the way the brain learns...
When you’re standing in front of a classroom of students who’re not quite sure they even want to be in your class, much less pay attention to what’s being said
Brain Target 2: Creating the Physical Learning Environment
Brain Target 1: Establish the emotional climate for learning
Brain Target 3: Designing the Learning Experience
Neuroscience: The brain feels before it thinks. The amygdala (think fight/flight) receives stimuli 40 milliseconds
Neuroscience: The brain craves novelty. Posner & Rothbart, 2007); lighting, background noise impact on attention;
Neuroscience behind it: The brain looks for patterns between known and unknown information (Posner & Rothbart
Brain Target 4: Teaching for Mastery
Neuroscience behind it: In order for information to be retained it must make its way from short-term to long-term memory.
Brain Target 5: Teaching for the Extension
Neuroscience behind it: The brain is plastic. Significant changes occur in the brain due to repeated sensory experience (Fu & Zuo,2011, Karmarkar & Dan, 2006)
Brain Target 6: Evaluating Learning
Neuroscience behind it: Assessments provides feedback that informs and motivates students; retrieval of information recruits memory systems, reinforcing memory for that information.