West High School
Davenport, Iowa
Home of Freddy Falcon
Thursday, February 18, 2010
New members join our group...
We have had a surge of new members joining our study group. Right now, we stand at 32 people. There should be plenty of discussion and opportunities for collaboration. Our first discussion group will meet next Thursday, February 25.
Jody Zimmerman and I are collaborating on a differentiation lesson plan using several brain rules. The lesson features Salvador Dali and Sigmund Freud.
A primary school is hoping the whiff of peppermint and the sound of running water can help boost pupils' results.
All Saints Catholic Primary School in Liverpool is taking part in a four-week experiment designed to see if smells and sounds help youngsters' concentration skills and their ability to remember information. The smell of peppermint is being pumped into one classroom, while the other group of children will listen to sounds such as running water and rustling leaves.
The youngsters will take a daily five-minute computer test to see if the experiment is helping their learning.
1. Talk about evolution and its meaning. Our mind evolution has made us dominant in our known universe. Mirroring, autism, schizophrenia...how do our interacting minds affect classroom relationships?
2. It has been said that when a teacher "yells" at a student, it takes the whole class 20 minutes to recover from the stress. Any ideas about stress management for ourselves and our classrooms?
3. Speaking of stress, the article "Get Smarter" speaks of an era of rapid change that compares to the changing environment of the Ice Age. As we make the transition from the Holocene epoch into the Nőo epoch, what can we expect? What signs of the Nőo epoch do you already see?
hard to discuss prior to book arrival...so is there a chapter on line perhaps?
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