Lesson Presentations

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Lesson Presentations
Deanna E. Mayers Director of Curriculum Blendedsc
hools.net
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Memorys CODE

• Connect
• Organize
• Dual-Code
• Exercise and Elaborate

The Strategic Teacher by Silver, Strong, Perinie,
2007
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Hook that helps students connect their experience
and background to the lecture topic
Connections
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The Hook

• Apply past knowledge to new situations is defined
  by Art Costa and Bena Kallick as a critical habit
  of mind (2008, 2009)
• The hook is the bait so that you can reel in your
  students minds
• Mastery hook recall or repeat information
• Understanding hook focusing on controversy
• Self-expression imaginations, what if?
• Interpersonal hook personal connection

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Kindling

• Give students time to stop and think
• Allowing students time to jot down their initial
  ideas on paper
• Encouraging students to share their ideas

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organization

• Present information in manageable chunks which
  students record on visual organizers

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Visual Organizers

• Structure the chunks of information that students
  will be expected to collect during the lecture
• Ask students to listen then say stop the video
  and record what you hear, re-wind if you need to
• Visual organizers create expectations about
  learning and about how new information will be
  experienced
• Developing anticipation that holds student
  attention

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Deeper processing

• Lecturer uses a variety of techniques such as
  visual and physical aids, demonstrations, vivid
  imagery, processing activities, to make the
  content more memorable

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Dual-Coded

• Stored in multiple parts of each students memory
• This happens when students get an opportunity to
  process content in a variety of ways and senses

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Involve the Senses

• The more senses involved the deeper the
  engagement
• Descriptive text, add the details so they can
  visualize
• Use images, visual aids or physical aids that
  students can touch and feel
• Vary tone and level of emotion

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Exercise
Memories are like muscles, they develop with
exercise.
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Stop and Question

• Exercise and apply what they have learned
• Stop and question
• 1 3 minutes for primary students
• 3 - 5 minutes for upper elementary
• 5 7 minutes for upper middle school and high
  school students

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Question Types
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Synthesis

• Culminating task
• Remind students to revisit lecture notes and
  organizers use them as a study guide

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Four Principles of Memory Based Lectures
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Streaming Your Video

• Log into bsntube (login info is provided in the
  Developers Certification course).
• Click Upload New Video
• Complete the following
• Title Name of your video (not the unit and
  lesson number)
• Description contains the course and unit/lesson
  
• Tags one key word or topic of your video
• Select a channel based on your subject area
• Skip the rest and click Next
• Use Browse button to select the video you have
  saved
• Click Upload. It takes a few minutes for your
  video to process and show up on BSNtube.
• Click the Videos button to find your video, it
  will be near the top when it has finished
  processing.
• Preview your video to make sure it looks and
  sounds ok
• Locate the embed code to the right of the video
• Highlight and copy entire embed code (usually
  only have to click once in the embed code box to
  highlight the whole string of code)

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