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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.

Consult my bestseller, Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies that Engage the Brain (Corwin Press), for 200 pieces of research and more than 150 instructional activities in support of the 20 strategies.  Increase student achievement, decrease behavior problems, and make teaching and learning so much fun!

Posted in: Education Tagged: education, inspiration, motivation, positivity, teachers Author: Marcia Tate

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  1. Anett Bearden
    July 14, 2016 at 10:02 pm /

    Dr Tate: I had the privilege to attend your Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites workshop today in El Paso, TX. Your daughter did an amazing job explaining the research backed 20 strategies. THANK YOU for equipping me with 20(!!!) relevant, powerful and positive teaching tools! I firmly believe that ALL students can learn and I am on a mission to empower my students through learning. I am certain that your strategies will help me reach more students this upcoming school year. Thank you for your dedication to making a difference in children’s lives. God bless you and your family!

  2. Diana Knudson
    August 24, 2016 at 11:33 am /

    Dr. Tate: I thank you for the experience we had at our Golden Triangle Curriculum Coop back-to-school presentation. I have never heard so many good things about a speaker that I have selected. What a good, positive feeling for me when administrators and teachers are taking the time to say “thank you.” I have been reading everything on your blog and took the time to read your short story about living a positive life. I know you live and believe in all you say; you give off a special glow. Thank you again–you are a special experience.

  3. Angela May
    March 9, 2017 at 8:37 pm /

    Dr. Tate:

    Thank you for all of the useful strategies! You delivered the best staff development I have had in the ten years I have been in education. I was hoping to use this list to share the list of strategies with other teachers. How can I respect your copyright, but share the information. Please let me know, I have sent two emails in regards.

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