Last week I had the good fortune to attend the CEC conference in Denver, CO. One of the sessions dealt with memory. The presenter reminded us of a principal called the "primacy-recency effect." This refers to the fact that most people remember best what they hear first and last within a lesson. This is one of the reasons that it is so important for teachers to purposefully plan an activator and closure component in each lesson.
One of my favorite closure activities is called Celebrity Summaries. I made up cards that look like the one shown, with a variety of celebrities. Make sure you choose celebrities your students will know. After placing students in small groups, I have them choose a card and develop a brief summary or review of the lesson from that celebrity's perspective. Today I had the opportunity to model this activity with teachers attending a workshop I gave on differentiated instruction in WV. Here are two of the summaries they developed and shared in the final five minutes of the day.
From Albert Einstein: DI = C(SL3) Translation -Differentiated Instruction equals creativity times student learning due to addressing 1. Learning profile, 2. Readiness level, 3. Student interest.
From Dr. Seuss:
Differentiation is easy, don't you see
Stand up, sit down, manipulate with me
Wikki Stix, sticky dots and HOT questions on the wall
We do our best to include them all!
One of my favorite closure activities is called Celebrity Summaries. I made up cards that look like the one shown, with a variety of celebrities. Make sure you choose celebrities your students will know. After placing students in small groups, I have them choose a card and develop a brief summary or review of the lesson from that celebrity's perspective. Today I had the opportunity to model this activity with teachers attending a workshop I gave on differentiated instruction in WV. Here are two of the summaries they developed and shared in the final five minutes of the day.
From Albert Einstein: DI = C(SL3) Translation -Differentiated Instruction equals creativity times student learning due to addressing 1. Learning profile, 2. Readiness level, 3. Student interest.
From Dr. Seuss:
Differentiation is easy, don't you see
Stand up, sit down, manipulate with me
Wikki Stix, sticky dots and HOT questions on the wall
We do our best to include them all!
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