Description
- Impact of brain stimulation, stress, ACE’s and trauma on learning
- Create low-stress-high-connection learning environments
- Biological precursors to learning
- New preliteracy
- Executive function precursors
- 5 early predictors of academic success
- Create a calm classroom culture with kindness, respect & trust
- Importance of collaboration, agency and creativity in learning and behavior
Foundational Motor Competencies that Proceed Learning
- Balance and weight shift
- Postural control for better learning
- Foundational movement patterns & sequences
- Types of patterns and elements
- How to build a movement sequence
- Activities
- Balance activity
- Teaching weight shift
- Head, shoulders, hips & knees
- Can everybody count
- Initial brain primer sequences for attention, memory and self-control
Musical Thinking
- We are musical
- Using The Love Notes Measures are magic!
- “We Move on the Beat in Time Together”
- Sequence is the secret
- Activities
- Musical thinking rhythm cards
- Communicating need sets musically
- Movin’ and Groovin’ movement mixes
- Creating your own standing patterns
Thinking Interventions for Better Learning and Behavior
- Executive functions CAN be learned
- Build core executive functions for achievement
- Cognitive skills building process
“I am the Best Coach for My Brain” – Lessons for Students
- Teach children about their brains
- Make executive functions transparent
- “Cognitive Conversation”
- Activities
- 8 brain lessons for students
- Cognitive conversation prompts
- The THINK Cards SAM Call and response cards
The “Cognitive Conversation” about Attention
- My Attention Engine
- Attention is more than one thing
- Attention cycle
- Types of attention
- Activities
- Prompts and questions
- Raise mindful awareness
- My Attention Engine
- Songs and chants
- Interactive conversational practice
Seated Work For Better Attention
- Alert Attention
- 1-5 minute desk percussion activities
- Stadium effect
- Compositions & orchestras
- Activities
- Table top tap
- Repeat the beat
- CogniTap
- Paradiddles
Cognitive Engagement – Music, Piano & Drumming
- Role of music in learning
- Build musical skills through auditory channels
- Imagination in spatial drumming
- Meludia Method
- Taiko
- Activities
- In Time (Advanced Brain Technologies) Solfege
Developing Your Own Patterns and Sequences
- Patterns
- Sequences
- Elements
- Sound and movement mixes
- Cueing
- Activities
- You’re a conductor
- We’re an orchestra
Language, Dyslexia, Reading and Learning
- What the research says about the precursors to reading
- Different types of dyslexia
- Role of speed of processing in reading
- Temporality, timing and prosody in reading
- Are rhymers really readers?
- Activities
- Narrative language in daily life
- Visual story-telling – sequencing and patterning in pictures
- Lullabies, folk songs and rhyming songs
- Circle pattern rhyming activities
Visual-Motor Language: Spotlight
- What is Spotlight and how was it developed?
- Collaboratively reading the visual-motor language
- Importance of cognitive cueing
- Use spotlight in various settings
- Activities
- Initial instructions to the student(s)
- Mirror and alternate
- Planer, lateral and contralateral movements for learning
- Create your own sequences
- The one spotlight movement circle
Brain Primers (Mike Kuczala)
- Developmentally progressive cognitive engagement
- Increase cognitive-motor demands
- Engage creativity and collaboration
- Engage the reluctant learner
- Advanced mix and match elements, patterns and sequences
- Activities
- Brain primers
The “Cognitive Conversation” about Memory
- Working, short-term, long-term, visual working, verbal (auditory) working memory
- Encode and retrieval
- Art, music and movement improve science
- Activities
- File cabinet visual prompt
- Retrieve math facts with Quick Rick
- Encoding spelling with Slow Mo
- Working memory enhancement strategies
- Visual memory enhancement techniques
Improving Behavior with Cognitive-Motor Movement
The “Cognitive Conversation” about SelfControl (Response Inhibition) + Impulsivity
- Achieve better classroom cohesion, socialization and behavior with responsive movement
- Difference between self-regulation and self-control
- Response inhibition and impulsivity
- Types of impulsivity (motor, verbal, cognitive)
- “Felt-Sense” of slowing down (self-control and selfregulation)
- 5 quick effective responses to dysregulated kids
- Between urge, action and behavior
- Trauma, cognition, and dysinhibition
- Block repetitive anxious thoughts
- Activities
- Think-Ups
- Mary and Her Me Me Me’s!
- Periwinkle and Pace
Self-Regulation: Heavy Work
- Push, pull and hold
- How does proprioceptive feedback calm the brain and body?
- What does the counting or cueing sound like?
- Activities
- Successful transitions
- Stationary holds with the Musical Thinking Rhythm cards
- Large-motor heavy play
- Hand play
Self-Regulation: Achieving an Alert State of Calm
- Self-regulation: emotional, cognitive, sensory/motor
- Self-regulation as energy management
- Use entrainment to reciprocally regulate 3,5,7,9 for calming in time
- Activities
- Co-regulation
- Retro Walking Dressage Patterns
- Yoga patterns
- Tai Chi patterns
- Mirror writing
- Self-monitoring worksheet
Attention, Memory and Inhibition
- How bean bags engage visual tracking
- How bean bags engage attention and memory
- Hand-eye patterns & sequences
- Activities
- One and two person bean bag activities
Rhythm Ball for Calming
- One and two person ball activities
- Change cueing & counts for alerting and calming
- Activities
- Co-regulating with one person
- Back-to-back listening activity
- Use music and metronomes
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