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What are three things you can do in

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your classroom that are basically free,

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that can maximize learning by 50%? That's what

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we're going over today in this episode. Welcome

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to neuroeducation. where we're exploring the neuroscience of

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how to switch on the brain to supercharge learning. I'll be sharing

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with you innovative teaching techniques, effective parenting strategies,

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and educational advocacy. I'm your host, Angie Dee.

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Together, let's revolutionize children's learning. Hello

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and welcome back to Neuroeducation with Angie Dee.

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Thank you so much for tuning in. If

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you are one of those teachers that blow

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out your budget on resources, buying a million things,

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laminating a thousand sheets and printing

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off endless worksheets for your kids and blowing out your printing

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budget, this episode is for you. Often

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as a teacher, we try to buy

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cute little accessories for the classroom. buying

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so many worksheets. I'm definitely even guilty of

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it, even though I tried to create the most hands-on learning environment. When

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we had to capture a worksheet, you're paying somebody from

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teachers pay teachers or somebody. And what

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we're doing is spending a huge amount of money on printing

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and hands-out. Well, what can we do that

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is double the maximization of

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the learning benefit for the kids? where we don't have to spend

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money on all those extra handouts, resources

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that is coming out of our own budget. Amazingly,

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it's the children, the environment that

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they're in. We can maximize what they're doing to

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increase the learning by half, if not more,

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by helping the children work together. Sometimes

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this is tricky, you might have somebody say oh but I don't want to work

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with so-and-so or like she doesn't like me. But

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once you set standards in your classroom for

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when we're moving into group work that

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everyone moves into the group regardless and

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we treat each other with kindness You build

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slowly strategies and an

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expectation that we move in with ease and grace and

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it gets better and better. So something like

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a group discussion or a group project, what's

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the benefit? Well, if we go back

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to the learning pyramid and we look, what is the best

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method of learning on the learning pyramid? The

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three top ones, Out

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of the three top ones, two involve peer

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interactions. So as a recap, the

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lowest form of retention for any kind of learning is

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a lecture. 5% retention is

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the average expectation. If you go to

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audio and visual, we have an expectation of around

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20% of learning retention. If we go up,

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to a classroom discussion or a group discussion, we

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got up to 50% retention on learning rates. So

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right there, if we stop and think about that, we

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have 5% of a lecture, which when we're time

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poor, often we do as teachers, we talk

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to the students and we just telling them about the content.

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And if they're only retaining 5% of that, and here as

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the alternative, you have something that you can do

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by activating the children to work together that

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increases that by 50% well it's

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50% retention so it's increasing it by much more than 50%. So

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here we have a very simple strategy that you can

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activate. There are fantastic examples all

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over the internet of what you can do in a

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group discussion that can activate the children. Each

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child can share what they learn. Maybe they can read some content

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or they watch content and then they have to share. Okay, what was

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the most important thing that they got out of that? And then

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maybe they have to work out something where they bring it back to the classroom to share

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the most important points of whatever the content or

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the subject was that they learned from. By doing this,

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the children are learning from each other and they're

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also engaging in classroom discussion. This

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hits two of our top

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tier learning strategies on the learning pyramid. 50% at

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classroom or group discussion, and the very top

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tier 90 to 95% retention if you're peer

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teaching. Just by doing this simple strategy in a classroom,

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getting the children to work together in a group, share what

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they learnt from whatever the learning content was, and

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then prepare in some way to share with the classroom, they're

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having to discuss what they learned. They're having to share their

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understanding and they're listening to the other children share

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their understanding. This, by far, is

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one of the simplest strategies that we can implement

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that's maximizing learning. And what is it doing? It's making learning

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more enjoyable for the children. Once they learn

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how to work in groups more cohesively, What we

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have is something that is absolutely fabulous

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for their social development, for their social interactions and

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their social connections. Now, as an adult, I

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want to ask you, how do you enjoy learning the best? When

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is the last time you had a discussion with a friend that

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really made you think? And you walked away from that conversation being

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like, wow, I'm going to look more into that. Or that you

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really learned something. And what was it doing just

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from having that personal one-to-one interaction? So

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once again, what is one of the best ways we

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can increase learning from 5% retention to 50, or if not 90% retention?

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just by adding classroom interaction, just by getting students to

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work together, to talk to each other, to share their understanding. When

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we did this in one classroom, it was amazing to

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see how much children learn

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and also what was so dramatically different

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that one child picked up to another. When I studied my

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Montessori specialization, I actually had

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a fantastic experience and I was learning

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online. And a lot of people say, I can't learn online because there

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was no interaction. But amazingly, this simple

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kind of group discussion that we had to do online really

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maximized my learning. And

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Montessori has multi-age levels

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of classrooms, usually in ages 3 to

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6, and then ages 6 to 9, 9 to 12, 12 to

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15, and 15 to 18. And this also allows for the older

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children to be able to help guide and nurture some of the younger children, and

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a lot of these things to happen naturally in a Montessori environment. Ironically,

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in my own learning, my professional learning, studying

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Montessori after I did my Bachelor of Education, I was

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able to come back to this very similar method of education, but

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it was online and it was the most interactive

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method of education that I felt I did in my entire teaching

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from studying my Diploma of Early Childhood, my Bachelor of Education

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and then doing my Montessori. If I look at all of that, my

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in-person Bachelor of Education and my in-person Diploma

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of Early Childhood was much

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less interactive, ironically, than my

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specialization in Montessori, because we constantly had to

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give each other feedback. We had to share our understanding, then

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read somebody else's input, and then comment on

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their input. And so what I found was not

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only was I learning so much from the content, I was learning

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so much from everybody else's understanding. And

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this is what we do in life, is it not? When you go to

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a friend's house and we have a dinner party, what are we

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doing? We're sharing what we're learning and what we're experiencing in life. And

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we have to say that we learn so much from our

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friends and our family around us. And what is that through? Just

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through simple discussions, which we can do in our

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classrooms for free to maximize learning. So

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