Brain-Based Teaching Strategies for Improving Students' Memory, Learning, and Test-Taking Success

Abstract

Watching As Brains Learn Studies of the brain's electrical activity (EEG or brain waves) and metabolic activity (from specialized PETbrain scans measuring glucose or oxygen use and blood flow) show the pattern of movement as information travels through the brain. Just as phone numbers and social security numbers are divided into chunks of three or four digits at a time, teachers can chunk things, from biologic genus-species names to states and capitals, into groupings of three or four, ideally with some commonality.