I found a video called Brain-Based Learning by Glynda Lee Hoffman and she talked about how students are scoring low on academic performance and have low processing skills because of their brain's neural-networks. These students are disorganized, incomplete, and distracted. She stated the brain can form and reorganize (neuroplasticity) through a systematic series of exercises to improve the learning modalities of visual, auditory, and motor that make content become organized and meaningful. With the improvement of processing skills, students will be more engaged, be more self-monitoring, and enjoying the activity. Hoffman also stated how the student's brain is well trained and tuned, their the ability of processing abstract content will become more efficient and more effective therefore immunized against future problems such as being sent to the office, or becoming a criminal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xgzhlm4i3g As a middle school teacher, I run into days where students lack the processing skills on the lesson plan. Student collaboration (Student-Centered) has been very effective on students' processing. I believe the word choices and vocabulary used amongst the students makes processing the learning material feasible. From my experience, scaffolding with struggling students has helped with their consistency on being focus and being attentive.
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Maria
10/31/2017 11:59:21 pm
Scaffolding is definitely a key support that we need to provide to all of our students. Students will not always admit what they don't know. Along with that, I think that we should also help our students become self advocates for their education. We should also teach them to speak up and have the confidence ask clarifying questions or for some examples when they don't fully understand an assignment or what is being taught. Of course this is not an easy task, but we can start little by little.
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