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Thoughtful Education Getting Comfortable with The New American Lecture
Cadre A
May 4, 2006
Green River Regional Educational Cooperative
Dr. Harvey Silver
Reflecting on What We’ve Learned
What do you remember about the New American Lecture strategy?
What questions do you have?
Functions of Memory
Short Term Memory
Is this important?
Will I use this?
Is it worth the risk?
Attention
Working
Memory
Multiple Exposure
Variety of Strategies
Intensity of Thought
Engagement
Learning
Long Term Memory
Stored
Retrieved
Getting Comfortable with the New American Lecture
Goal 1 Relevance: Help students find personal meaning by
connecting to prior knowledge or experiences to new learning.
Goal 2 Organization: Model research based techniques for
organizing information.
Goal 3 Note-taking: Guide students toward more effective
note-taking skills.
Goal 4 Memory: Improve memory and comprehension.
90% is lost quote……
What is the New American Lecture
What can the NAL do for you and your students?
Phases of the Lecture
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Phase I: Preparation
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Phase I: Preparation
• attention
• hook
• bridge
• kindling
ORGANIZATION
What is it?
How is it used?
Principle:
Present Visual Organizer
ORGANIZATION
Purpose:
• Chunk information
to fit the Memory
Techniques:
•Visual Organizers
• Say It and See It
Present Visual Organizer
What are some organizers you use? When? How?
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
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Phase III: Collecting Information
Purpose:
•Multiple Memory Pathways
Techniques:
• Dual Coding
• Non-Linguistic
• Primacy and Recency
• “zulu”
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•Dual Coding
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Phase IV: Review Questions
Phase IV: Review Questions
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Purpose:
• Rehearsal
Rote
Elaborate
Techniques:
• Questions in Style
• Stop 3-5 minutes to pose questions and process information
4 Thought
Remember, Recall
•summarize
• retell
• sequence
Reason
• compare &contrast
• prove & disprove
• cause & effect
Relate
• connect personally
• evaluate
• empathize
Recreate
• suppositions, what if
• make and explain metaphor
• create, invent or design
4 Thought
Remember, Recall
• What are the phases of the New American Lecture?
Reason
• Why is the New American Lecture more effective in building lasting memories than traditional lecture?
Relate
• What new insights did you gain about the NAL and how to use it in the classroom?
Recreate
• How is the New American Lecture a key to improving students’ academic performance?
Let’s look at a teacher using the NAL
Hook:
Have you ever achieved something that you didn’t get credit for?
How did it make you feel?
What might you do next time to make sure
credit is given for your accomplishment?
Today, we are going to examine the question, “Who should get credit for discovering America?”
Who do you think should get the credit and why do you think so?
Early Man and Co. Leif Erikson and Co. Columbus and Co.
Exploration Dates
What was the culture like?
What were their motives for exploration?
What were some discovery processes they used?(technology)
What were some effects of the discoveries?
Who Discovered America?
30,000 B.C.
Hunters, gatherers; whole families and tribes traveled together.
Food: following caribou herd to New World.
Feet to walk across land bridge.
People spread over 2 continents; established over 200 different cultures and languages; adapted well to all environments. Sophisticated cultures-limited communication
1200 A.D.
Raiders and Traders
Booty and easily transported goods.
Knorr, slender flexible vessel using wind, man-power.
Keel, 2/3 of length; Word of mouth culture and no maps.
Small settlements in the new world that disappeared mysteriously; sagas in 1250 AD, moved from a pagan culture to a Christian culture.
Paleo Americans Vikings Southern Europeans
What do you remember about the Paleo American’s discovery of America?
Compare and contrast the Paleo Amereican’s discoveries and the Viking’s discoveries.
Who do you believedeserves credit for
discovering America?
What if the southern Europeans had never
come to America? What effects might this have
had on America?
Synthesis
Many people disagree about who should get credit for discovering America.
A. Identify at least THREE groups that should be considered.
B. Select the group whom you think deserves the credit and explain why.