How to be Research Based

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How to be Research Based

• And still have fun!

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Bonny Buffington

• 14 years sp ed resource room teacher
• 3 years intervention specialist, inclusion
• 12 years teacher trainer for co-teaching,
  inclusion strategies
• 21 years high school math teacher
• 23 years district administrator
• 1 ½ years as educational consultant
• Nearly 75 years!

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Baggage Claim

• On an index card, LEGIBLY write your response to
  these questions
• What do students need in order to learn?
• What can teachers do to facilitate student
  learning?

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• When I say GO, find a partner to share what you
  have written.
• Explain your responses to your partner, and then
  give your index card to that person.
• He/she will explain his/her responses to you and
  then give his/her index card to you.
• Repeat after 60 seconds when I say
• GO again

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Research says!

• Dr. Henrietta Leiner and Dr. Alan Leiner of
  Stanford University (1993)
• Research links physical movement with thinking
  process.
• Dr. Peter Strick of Veteran Affairs Medical
  Center of Syracuse, NY (1995)
• The part of the brain that processes movement is
  the same part that
• processes learning.

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The Cerebellum
It's like a math co-processor. It's not
essential for any activity ... but it makes any
activity better. Anything we can think of as
higher thought, mathematics, music, philosophy,
decision-making, social skill, draws upon the
cerebellum.... Dr. Jay Giedd, National
Institute of Mental Health
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So what?

• Integrate movement activities into everyday
  learning
• Provide manipulatives
• Offer novel activities, learning locations,
  choices that require moving
• Eric Jensen, Brain-Based Learning (2000) p 169

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Resources

• The Strategy Ring
• http//www.kcesc.org
• Glossary of Instructional Strategies
• http//glossary.plasmalink.com/glossary.html
• Summarization in Any Subject, Rick Wormeli, ASCD

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Science Question

• The chemical symbol for oxygen is O hydrogen is
  H nitrogen is N.
• Name the chemical symbol for the element Sodium

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Numbered Heads Together

• In groups of 4, number each person 1, 2, 3, and 4
• Name the chemical symbol for the element
  potassium

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Research says!

• Dr. Joseph LeDoux, Center for Natural Science,
  NYU (1996)
• Emotions contribute significantly to attention,
  perception, memory, and problem solving
• Dr. Paul MacLean, neurologist (1978, 1990),
  Laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behaviour
• Supports critical role of emotions in learning

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So what?

• Establish a safe learning environment
• Ensure resources necessary for success are
  available to every learner
• Provide personally meaningful projects and more
  individual choice
• Use self-assessment tools for non-threatening
  feedback
• Celebrate student success
• Incorporate assignments that require
  sharing personal opinions and feelings

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Resources

• Spinners and other goodies
• http//www.kaganonline.com/Catalog/TeacherTools2.h
  tml
• All kinds of web sites with helpful stuff
• http//www.webblue.havre.k12.mt.us/Teacher/index.h
  tml

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Vocab Pictionary

• Use your vocabulary words to play Pictionary
  with a partner
• When you guess the word, you must also say the
  definition

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Vocab words

• Strategy
• Cerebellum
• Facilitate
• Legible
• Curriculum
• Research

• Movement
• Multi-sensory
• Response
• Non-threatening
• Assessment
• Perception

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Research Says!

• Dr. Daniel Schacter, Harvard University professor
  of psychology (1996)
• Different learning tasks require different ways
  to store and recall information
• Dr. Richard M. Restak, president of the American
  Neuropsychiatric Association (1994)
• Research supports the fact that using different
  learning styles enhances learning

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So what?

• Use as many modalities and/or intelligences as
  possible when you teach.
• Students learn differently and so teachers should
  teach differently.
• Differentiate instruction!

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Learning Style Resources

• Several inventories
• http//www.auburn.edu/witteje/ilsrj/resources.htm
  
• Research and articles
• http//www.pz.harvard.edu/index.cfm (Project Zero
  research)

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Questions for the consultant Bonny
Buffington bonny_buffington_at_knoxnet.k12.oh.us http
//www.bonnybuffington.wikispaces.com
Knox County ESC 308 Martinsburg Rd. Mount Vernon,
OH 43050 740-393-6767