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Practice Makes Permanent

August 20, 2024 ~ wordancerblog ~ 7 Comments

I was especially interested in how the brain retains information and how best to strengthen students’ working memory.  We learned that if teachers use both visualization and auditory methods to teach new material, the better students will remember the material. 

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7 responses to “Practice Makes Permanent”

  1. Terje Avatar
    Terje
    August 20, 2024

    I love how you invite us to glimpse into your life and then let us peek into the head and heart to see what you think and feel.

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    Fran Haley
    August 20, 2024

    Muscle memory works, and it’s so creative – a natural tool in the hands of an artist like you, Joanne! Hear, hear, to the overload of information – that’s not learning. There has to be time to synthesize, to personalize. Learning SHOULD be fun, and always new… again I think how incredibly blessed your students are to have you.

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  3. Lakshmi Bhat Avatar
    Lakshmi Bhat
    August 20, 2024

    Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.

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  4. Trish Avatar
    Trish
    August 20, 2024

    The more synapses that fire, the more connections we make. That specter of running out of time, the pressure to “cover everything,” as in “we did ______” makes automatons of us all. I love the side-by-side chart and think how cool that would be for students to do with a poem they have chosen to memorize. I have a lot of poems in my heart, the latest by Dorianne Laux, “Life on Earth,” and I know for sure that words that mean something to you are worth keeping close.

    Have a wonderful start…those lucky kids and colleagues!

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    mornagersho
    August 20, 2024

    It sounds intriguing! I will look these up. Inspiring.

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    Tina
    August 21, 2024

    Your are an eternal learner- I love your devotion to building healthy practices! I also learn best when visuals accompany written information and love sketchnoting both during and after meetings and lessons for that reason. In fact, I was planning to give students a fifteen to twenty minute reflection time each Friday to review lessons and activities and organize thoughts without introducing anything new. The newness comes in revisiting and slowing down. I’m trying to find ways to help THEM do the organizing (I find I do too much FOR them). Executive functioning has become such a hot topic and your post makes me realize I need to investigate more about the inner workings of our students’ very busy brains.
    PS: I loved the Dickinson poem❤️

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    Denise Krebs
    August 21, 2024

    Joanne, what a great post. I have been here reading and memorizing Emily, thanks to your hand motions. It is so true what you’ve written. Why do we forget those memory helps that made us learn things that we’ll never forget? I love that you continue to grow and “learn new tricks”!

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