by Guest Blogger Donna Wilson
In the
course of our work in the field of teacher education, Marcus and I have
had the opportunity to share science along with our frameworks and
strategies with some amazing and dedicated teachers!
One
such teacher is Diane Dahl. One of the most important things Diane took
away from our program was how to teach students how to use higher order
thinking skills alongside key content she teaches.
As
an example, Diane framed her lesson in a way that second graders
discovering how the Chinese invention of paper changed the world
spontaneously were able to connect their new knowledge to a previous
lesson on Sequoyah’s creation of a writing system for the Cherokee
people.
Friday, July 29, 2016
Friday, July 15, 2016
Your Chief Executive Officer Resides in the Brain’s Frontal Lobes
by Guest Blogger Donna Wilson
In the corporate world, the chief executive officer of a company is responsible for making the highest-level decisions to ensure a strategic, well-coordinated, and coherent course of action. Without such a leader, the employees in the organization might scatter in a variety of different directions and find themselves at cross-purposes instead of working productively together toward the same goals.
In our new book, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognition Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas, we talk about the importance of executive function, which describes the brain processes and mental faculties involved in goal setting, planning and execution, reasoning, problem solving, working memory, and organization.
We cite the work of Elkhonon Goldberg, who applies the metaphor of a chief executive offer to the brain’s frontal lobes and describes specifically how the prefrontal cortex plays a central role in forming goals and objectives and devising plans of action to obtain these goals.
In the corporate world, the chief executive officer of a company is responsible for making the highest-level decisions to ensure a strategic, well-coordinated, and coherent course of action. Without such a leader, the employees in the organization might scatter in a variety of different directions and find themselves at cross-purposes instead of working productively together toward the same goals.
In our new book, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognition Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas, we talk about the importance of executive function, which describes the brain processes and mental faculties involved in goal setting, planning and execution, reasoning, problem solving, working memory, and organization.
We cite the work of Elkhonon Goldberg, who applies the metaphor of a chief executive offer to the brain’s frontal lobes and describes specifically how the prefrontal cortex plays a central role in forming goals and objectives and devising plans of action to obtain these goals.
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