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How will you use the memory research to increase the students' learning retention in a class you are currently teaching? What will you do differently?

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Mapping How People Learn to the Classroom

Consider the following exercise: Students are each given one step of a five step stress management process: 1. Recognize stress 2. 10 Deep Breaths 3. Think of the urgency 4. Think of the importance 5. Work on the right thing for right now. The students are asked to find the other four people who complete their list of five, then arrange themselves in the proper order. The winning team wins a prize. While the exercise is going on, the instructor plays music that is fun, fast and frantic. How would this exercise map to all seven of the Multiple Intelligences?

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Creating a Multi-sensory Learning Environment

How could you try using color, visuals, seating, creative supplies and music to improve the learning environment for your students?

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Growing Yourself as a Learning Facilitator

How do you balance the need to learn more about the topics you teach with your need to develop new ways of teaching and your classroom time?

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Creating a Multi-sensory Learning Environment

Those are great ideas. I recommend the LIND Institute, Chris Brewer and Gary Lamb for great music selections. I put it all in iTunes, and then play it from my laptop using external speakers. For the environment, be cautious with color - sometimes different colors can bother people. For example, red can have seriously bad or good reactions, depending on culture. I use light blue and light green for evaluations, pre-work and homework. Blue is pretty much always safe. Also, you can modify your environment by moving chairs around temporarily, bringing in some cut flowers or just putting red plastic… >>>

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Creating a Multi-sensory Learning Environment

Joseph, There are options for copyright approved or free music that are great. Most aerobics / exercise music is copyright free. I love the sound of your classroom. It is so important to greet the students in a way that is different but inviting. I tell my facilitators to make it look like we are greeting an honored guest. Lou Russell

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Growing Yourself as a Learning Facilitator

Scott - This is a great way of staying up to date. Sometimes when people become faculty they are afraid to learn anything new, afraid it will challenge their authority. But I believe that the greatest teachers are also the greatest learners. Your students are lucky to have you! Lou Russell

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Is Leadership a Privilege?

Miguel - Yes, I agree with what you have written. It is very important that leaders understand how big a responsibility it is to have the power to change people's lives - for better or worse! Lou Russell

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Creating a Multi-sensory Learning Environment

Raymond: How do you use color? Are there handouts that use color? How do you find your students react to them. Lou Russell

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Is Leadership a Privilege?

Fernando, Well put. Leadership is always unique to the people being led, the time, the culture, etc. and shows up many different ways. It's amazing what leaders can do. The privilege comes with responsibility, of course. Leadership is a serious meddling in peoples' lives... which we have to treat ethically and morally. Lou Russell