Neuroscience Research: 5 Ways to Superior Teaching
Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath has lectured at Harvard, Harvard Medical School, and the University of Melbourne, and has worked with more than 150 schools around the world. In this episode he gives five findings from brain science that change what you do Monday — starting with the one most of us have backwards. Memory isn't built by how you put information in. It's built by how often your students pull it back out.
This episode originally aired in 2019 and comes in at number seven in our countdown of the top 10 episodes of the first 1,000.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Why rereading notes doesn't build memory, and what to do instead
- Why students can't read your slides and listen to you at the same time
- The attention threshold, and how to reset it every 10 to 15 minutes
- How to find the story behind a fact so the fact sticks
- Why facts have to come before skills, demonstrated with a cricket match you won't understand a word of
Full show notes, resources, and the complete transcript: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/e987
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