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학생들은 수업이 끝난 후 뇌기능이 사용되지 않으면 쇠퇴할 수 있음을 이해하게 됩니다.

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뇌는 왜 운동을 안 하면 약해질까요?

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뇌는 근육처럼 사용하지 않으면 기능이 약해집니다. 자주 사용하는 것이 중요합니다.

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The Brain for Kids - What is the brain and how does it work?

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팀을 나누어, 여러 가지 기억력 게임을 해봅니다. 예를 들어, 카드 매칭 게임을 하면서 뇌를 활성화합니다.

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학생들은 '기억력 퍼즐'을 완성하면서 자신만의 방식으로 연습할 시간을 가집니다.

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뇌기능을 강화하기 위한 별도의 활동북을 제공합니다. 학생들은 추가로 문제를 풀어보며 확장된 내용을 접할 수 있습니다.

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Top 10 right brain activities kids worksheets ideas and inspiration

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Find and save ideas about right brain activities kids worksheets on Pinterest.

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학생들이 활동에 참여한 정도를 관찰하고 피드백을 제공합니다.

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학생들이 작성한 기억력 퍼즐을 검토하면서 뇌기능에 대한 이해도를 평가합니다.

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간단한 퀴즈를 통해 주제에 대한 이해도를 평가합니다.

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Look at the slide advanced to the next slide and tell where the shape was. Vipkid reward | Test your Memory Sharon Allen | Just for fun - Fun-filled Learning Adventures

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오늘 배우면서 가장 재미있었던 점은 무엇인가요?

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Find inspiration for classroom discussions that encourage students to make their voices heard.

"So, what are your thoughts? Talk with each other."
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I remember asking this question many times, always expecting it to be greeted immediately and enthusiastically by the voices of many students, clamoring to share all at once.

In some classrooms, that was the case. In most others, a deafening silence would stretch for several minutes. Eventually, I'd ask a new question or encourage them to write down their answers and turn them in so that I could read them. Most students had an abundance of thoughts, I discovered, when they handed in their written responses.

I desperately wanted to create a culture of discussion in my classroom, one in which students could not stop talking to one another about our texts and topics of study. But, this open-ended question asking them to share their thoughts never seemed to stimulate the kind of discussions that I was searching for.

The question for me became, how can I begin to create a culture of discussion in my classroom?

Questioning

To explore that larger question, I began with a smaller one: what kind of questions were the most exciting for me to answer as a learner?

We all may have different answers to that question, and I encourage you to take a few moments to think or to write about what your unique answer might be.

In my own process of reflection, I discovered that I am enthusiastic to answer questions that are open-ended: those that invite many different perspectives and clearly do not have one "correct" answer.

I also love questions that get me thinking about something that hasn't occurred to me before: thought-provoking questions that feel relevant to me in some way, connecting to my interests, my recent thought patterns, or some facet of my identity.

And, most especially, I love answering questions when I can be assured that someone else around me will answer, too. There is something vulnerable about sharing thoughts and ideas in a classroom space, especially when there is no guarantee that others will do the same.

Out of my own reflections came clear pathways forward - new things to try.
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What if I asked focused, open-ended questions?

What if I asked thought-provoking questions that are relevant to my students' lives?

What if I asked questions and invited students to respond using protocols that expected reciprocal responses? What might those protocols be?

The first protocol that I embraced consistently became the turn and talk. Rather than invite students to share in front of the whole class, I'd invite students to turn and talk to one person next to them, taking turns to share their responses.

I can appreciate how many teachers mock the turn-and-talk discussion protocol as a favorite of administrators who believe that this discussion technique will solve all educational dilemmas. As teachers, it can be easy to become cynical quickly about those strategies most commonly suggested.

With that said, the turn-and-talk protocol transformed academic talk in my classroom. By the third or fourth time that I implemented the strategy, I was stunned by all the ideas my students were willing to share with each other that they wouldn't share with the whole class.

But, it also made sense once I implemented the protocol, as so many things in retrospect often do. It's much easier to share with a peer than with one's teacher. It's much easier to share with a peer when you know that they will share in return with you.

Eventually, I knew that I wanted the turn-and-talk to grow into small group discussions. So, how?

Small group discussion

"Save the Last Word for Me" was introduced to me by a colleague who was devoted to building a culture of discussion in her classroom.

Her explanation was simple, and I do my best to recreate it here:

1. Put students into groups of four

2. Each students reads and chooses one quote of significance to them for whatever the reason

3. Each student in the group reads the quote then theorizes aloud about why the quote holds significance

4. The student who initially chose the quote has the "last word" to explain their original thinking about why they chose their quote

I never implemented the protocol to fidelity, but it inspired lots of small group discussions in my classrooms. What if I tried it with images? With documents? With word problems? What if the groups were slightly larger or smaller?
To me, one beautiful thing about teaching is that every protocol is an invitation to create and to re-create things until they feel like our own. I invite you to do the same - what small group discussion strategies might this one protocol inspire?

Whole class discussion

I never gave up on my dream of whole class discussions. As many English teachers can appreciate, the Socratic seminar is often celebrated as the pinnacle of literary discussions.

After many months of paired and small group discussions, I was terrified that our first Socratic seminar of the year would be a return to the silence.

Students are always full of surprises.

"But did you look here at what she says on page 23? It makes me think that...."
"I'm not sure I agree, but that's an interesting point. Have you thought about...."
"That's a good point. Maybe we should think about...."

The voices, the laughter, the thoughts swirling around - it was everything that I had hoped for my students in a whole class discussion.

I described this moment of success with a fellow teacher, expressing my surprise and amazement about how successful our first Socratic seminar was.

He laughed, "I'm not surprised. Your kids are always talking."

An invitation

Creating a culture of discussion was not a linear experience for me as a teacher. I learned from the wisdom of fellow teachers and, no matter what protocols I used, there were days in which silence felt inevitable. But, I did get my students talking.

If you're interested in thinking more about how to create a culture of discussion in your own classroom, I invite you to join me online at Keep the Kids Talking, where you can reflect on your own experiences, and also acquire new, implementable discussion strategies.

I hope to see you there.

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Creating a Culture of Discussion: How to Keep Kids Talking

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Find inspiration for classroom discussions that encourage students to make their voices heard.

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배운 내용을 한 문장으로 정리하여 선생님께 제출합니다.

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가정에서 부모님과 함께 풀어볼 기억력 강화 워크시트를 제공합니다.

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Memory Games Worksheets & Free Printables | Education.com

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Memory games support your child's journey to learning by fostering good study habits and improved reading comprehension. Try our memory games with your child.

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'뇌를 키우는 방법'에 대한 간단한 읽기 자료를 제공합니다.