WARRIORS IN 'THE KNOW'
9/27/2019 ~ Superintendent's Newsletter ~ 6th Ed.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
~ Nelson Mandela
Classroom Connection
Whether you are a teacher delivering instructions to students or a student attempting to retain information for a class, there are 20 cross-curricular strategies that take advantage of the way all brains learn best. They are as follows:
Brainstorming and Discussion: We remember what we talk about with others.
Drawing and Artwork: Drawing helps students encode new content for later recall.
Field Trips: We remember where we go in the real world.
Games: When playing a game, the stress level goes down and the retention rate goes up.
Graphic Organizers, Semantic Maps, and Word Webs: Having students design a mind map addresses both hemispheres of the brain.
Humor: He who laughs most, learns best. – John Cleese
Manipulatives, Experiments, Labs, and Models: There is a strong correlation between what our hands hold and what our minds comprehend.
Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes: Take what is unfamiliar to students and connect it to what is familiar and they will get it.
Mnemonic Devices: Acronyms and acrostics enable students to memorize lists of items.
Movement: Anything the brain learns while the body is in motion is long remembered.
Music, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rap: Nursery rhymes and song lyrics learned while we are children are easily remembered as adults.
Project-Based and Problem-Based learning: When students are completing real-world projects or solving real-world problems, comprehension is facilitated.
Reciprocal Teaching and Cooperative Learning: We remember 90% of what we teach to someone else.
Roleplay: Involve me, I understand. Chinese Proverb
Storytelling: The brain remembers stories because they are connected together with a beginning, middle, and end.
Technology: Technology is a workplace competency which enables students to be college – or career – ready.
Visualization and Guided Imagery: Everything happens twice: once in the mind and once in reality. – Stephen Covey
Visuals: Show me, I remember. – Chinese Proverb
Work-Study and Apprenticeships: On the job training helps the content make sense.
Writing and Journals: The brain remembers what we write in long hand better than what we type on a computer.
Community Connection
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Throwback Photo Revisited
Gift Card Winners were Carrie Kincade, Carrie Horton and Debbie Fox. Congratulations and thanks for playing!!!
COMING UP
Next Week....
- 9/30 ~ LHR Volleyball @ Home ~ 4:30
- 10/3 ~ LHR & BHS Cross Country @ Blue Ridge ~ 4:00
- 10/4 ~ BHS VB ~ Home ~ 4:30
- 10/5 ~ Out of Darkness Walk @ Legacy Ridge ~ 9:00 AM
A REASON TO REMAIN POSITIVE
It has long been believed that success drives happiness, but it turns out it’s the other way around.
When we embrace a positive mindset, our brains are more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive.
Great Days of Service
Service projects include:
Community Clean-up, Home Improvements, Powder Creek Playground, Nursing Home Visitations, Food Drive, Recycling Project for Fannin Literacy Council, Sort Clothing for Isaiah’s Closet
Saturday, Oct 12, 2019, 08:00 AM
Check in @ First Baptist Church, Bonham
Stay in Touch
Email: kelly.trompler@bonhamisd.org
Website: www.bonhamisd.org
Location: 1005 Chestnut Street, Bonham
Phone: (903) 583-5526
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