How brain friendly is your teaching?
How long have you been teaching? 20 years? 5 Years? 15 minutes?
If you have been teaching for longer than 10 minutes then it’s time to stop. Any longer than that and whatever is coming out of your mouth isn’t going to have much impact on learning. If you flood learners with input then they are going to switch off because it can be overwhelming. They need to process and so do we. Forget the force feeding and pate de foie gras.
It makes perfect sense. By not overloading the student with cognitive data they are more likely to absorb it. The idea of chump and chew also follows as, by not going onto the next thing immediately, again the student will not be overloaded with information and it could mean that the information will travel into long term memory.
The idea is great, the youtube video is terrible.
I have been doing this for a while using Kagan cooperative learning. It is nice to see further research to back up the teach methodology I have used to have students absorb information.