Movement - A Brain Compatible Strategy

Movement - A Brain Compatible Strategy

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  A Brain Compatible StrategyPresentedBy: Shownette Frank Anika Williams Carla George
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  According to Vocabulary.com,movement is the change of position or location (place). Movement is the one most detrimental barrier to learning and recall of information may be a teacher's deliberate attempt to stop students from moving in the classroom. Movement also reenergize the body and brain cells and be able to maintain focus on students school work. Being involved in movement positively affects children both cognitively and physically.
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  “Physical performance isprobably the only know cognitive activity that uses 100 percent of the brain.” (Jensen, 2008) “Movement not only assist with reading, gets the blood and glucose to the brain, and provides lots of fun during learning but it also assists with our strongest memory system procedural memory.” (Sprenger, 2007) “Movement not only enhances learning and memory but it also causes neural connections to become stronger .”(Hannaford, 2005)
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  Movement Education wasfirstly implemented by a Frenchman called Francois Delsarte in the 1800s. He focused his work in the arts, where he contributed critical ideas of connections among the mind, body, and spirit. Delsarte believed that expressive movement should relate to the emotion that inspired that movement. Today this movement is linked to Gardener’s Multiple Intelligence Theory under bodily-kinesthetic. Movement is important in today’s classroom because it strengthens learning, improves memory retrieval, enhances learners confidence and movement increases blood flow and oxygenates the brain.
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   Movement Concept– knowledge and understanding of movements that allow individuals to adapt and modify their movements to achieve specific movement goals such as body awareness.  Motor Skills – the foundation for development of more complex and specialized motor skills used in games, sports, dance, and fitness activities.
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  The following arethree (3) instructional activities that can be engaged in the classroom which involve movement. These activities will increase locomotor and nonlocomotor skills in each student. They will have the ability to function more rapidly and recall from memory because of brain activity or movement.
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  Activity One (1) Class:Standard One Subject Area: Mathematics Topic: Addition Activity: Teacher will place addition questions on the board, create teams among the students and allow them to compete by running to the board to answer their questions. The first team to finish and all questions are answered correctly, is the winner.
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  Activity Two (2) Class:Standard One Subject Area: Physical Education Topic: Physical & Mental Skills Activity: Teacher will instruct students to line up and initiate the game called “Simon Says”. Students will try to follow the instructions of Simon, making sure to think first before action. Some directions my include: touch your toes, clap your hands etc.
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  Activity Three (3) Class:Standard One Subject Area: Spelling Topic: The Beach Activity: Teacher will instruct students to line up and prepare for spelling. Teacher will select which line end is the head and which is the tail. Beginning from the tail of the line, Students will be challenged to each spell words. Each word spelt correctly will allow them to run to the head of the line.
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   Abels, Kand Bridges, J. (2010). Teaching Movement Education: Foundations for active lifestyles. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics  Hannaford, C. (2005). Smart moves: Why learning is not all in your head. Salt Lake City, UT: Great River Books Jensen, E. (2008). Brain-based learning: The new paradigm of teaching. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. Sprenger, M. (2007). Becoming a Wiz at Brain-Based Teaching. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.  Vocabulary.com. “Movement”. Retrieved on June 14th 2015 from: http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/movement