Brain Compatible Strategy

1. A Brain Compatible
StrategyPresented By:
Shownette Frank
Anika Williams
Carla George

2. According to Vocabulary.com, movement is the
change of position or location (place).
Movement is the one most detrimental barrier to
learning and recall of information may be a teacher's
deliberate attempt to stop students from moving in
the classroom.
Movement also
reenergize the body
and brain cells and be
able to maintain focus on students school work. Being
involved in movement positively affects children both
cognitively and physically.

3. “Physical performance is probably the only know
cognitive activity that uses 100 percent of the
brain.” (Jensen, 2008)
“Movement not only assist with reading, gets the
blood and glucose to the brain, and provides lots of
fun during learning but it also assists with our
strongest memory system procedural memory.”
(Sprenger, 2007)
“Movement not only enhances learning and memory
but it also causes neural connections to become
stronger .”(Hannaford, 2005)

4. Movement Education was firstly implemented by a
Frenchman called Francois Delsarte in the 1800s. He
focused his work in the arts, where he contributed
critical ideas of connections among the mind, body,
and spirit. Delsarte believed that expressive
movement should relate to the emotion that inspired
that movement.
Today this movement is linked to Gardener’s Multiple
Intelligence Theory under bodily-kinesthetic.
Movement is important in today’s classroom because
it strengthens learning, improves memory retrieval,
enhances learners confidence and movement
increases blood flow and oxygenates the brain.

5.  Movement Concept –
knowledge and understanding of movements
that allow individuals to adapt and modify their
movements to achieve specific movement goals
such as body awareness.
 Motor Skills –
the foundation for development of more
complex and specialized motor skills used in
games, sports, dance, and fitness activities.

6. The following are three (3) instructional activities
that can be engaged in the classroom which
involve movement.
These activities will increase locomotor and
nonlocomotor skills in each student. They will
have the ability to function more rapidly and
recall from memory because of brain activity or
movement.

7. Activity One (1)
Class: Standard One
Subject Area: Mathematics
Topic: Addition
Activity:
Teacher will place addition questions on the
board, create teams among the students and
allow them to compete by running to the board
to answer their questions. The first team to
finish and all questions are answered correctly,
is the winner.

8. Activity Two (2)
Class: Standard One
Subject Area: Physical Education
Topic: Physical & Mental Skills
Activity:
Teacher will instruct students to line up and
initiate the game called “Simon Says”. Students
will try to follow the instructions of Simon,
making sure to think first before action. Some
directions my include: touch your toes, clap
your hands etc.

9. Activity Three (3)
Class: Standard One
Subject Area: Spelling
Topic: The Beach
Activity:
Teacher will instruct students to line up and prepare
for spelling. Teacher will select which line end is the
head and which is the tail. Beginning from the tail
of the line, Students will be challenged to each spell
words. Each word spelt correctly will allow them to
run to the head of the line.

10.  Abels, K and Bridges, J. (2010). Teaching Movement Education:
Foundations for active lifestyles. Champaign, IL: Human
Kinetics
 Hannaford, C. (2005). Smart moves: Why learning is not all in your
head. Salt Lake City, UT: Great River Books
Jensen, E. (2008). Brain-based learning: The new paradigm of
teaching. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Sprenger, M. (2007). Becoming a Wiz at Brain-Based Teaching.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
 Vocabulary.com. “Movement”. Retrieved on June 14th 2015 from:
http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/movement