Alyssa

“Teachers are Master Overthinkers.”
― Steven Northup, Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick

“Intuitions are not to be ignored, Watson. They represent data processed too fast for the conscious mind to comprehend.” —Sherlock Holmes (Wink)”
― Steven Northup, Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick

“Great teachers everywhere do that very thing, each and every day. We use chunking every day to break our content into small, easy-to-understand pieces. Until we are rushed and short on time. Which is . . . almost always. Then sometimes we slip into the dreaded Data Dumping.”
― Steven Northup, Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick

“It’s nearly impossible for the brain to remember something we can’t connect with. If we can’t apply and use what we learn, the brain will instinctively delete it as a survival mechanism. So, Tell Them what they are learning, and Why.”
― Steven Northup, Engaging the Student Brain: 7 Hard-to-Ignore Teaching Techniques That Make Things Stick