Two Practices You Don’t Need For Learning

Here is what you should replace them with

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One of the most annoying things about being a teacher in this decade is how quickly things change. On the flip side, one of the most exhilarating things about being a teacher in this decade is how quickly things change. By now, if you homeschool or teach for a district or private school, you already have pre-planned days just for learning more and making lesson plans. Right? Please add to your list to remove learning style quizzes and right brain/left brain emphasis.

2 Left brain and Right Brain Myths

1. You only use 10%

2. You are either one or the other

It is time to unlearn some of these old and outdated approaches. It not only limits our instructional capacity, but is also minimizes our capacity to set rigorous and higher expectations for ourselves and other learners. The brain, in its entirety, is critical for our daily functioning and ability to learn. Even when it is at rest, the brain maintains all of our functions. This is by default already more than 10% usage.

For activities that we like to sort into logical or artistic, left or right, we incorrectly believe that they happen on only one hemisphere. In reality, components of skills can occur on…