Brain Gym or Not??

Posted on April 28th, 2008 in Brain Gym, Classroom Stuff, Critical Reflection, Videos by jlietze  Tagged ,

Brain Gymm

The following link on Brain Gym was written by Ewan McIntosh from Scotland.

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/04/brain-gym-was-i.html

It is definitely worth a read so I have posted about it quickly to bring it to your attention (if you haven’t read it already).

Check out the videos (Part 1 + 2) in my Vodpod collection on the left side of this blog (note on Ewan’s page he shares Part 1 only.)

What do you think? Have you found enough evidence to say it improves learning?

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  1.    Allanahk said,

    on April 28th, 2008 at 10:30 am

    So are you back in NZ?

    I think things work in a classroom if the teacher believes they will- for better or worse. I used to do brain gym and had the kids believing that it was good for them and made them smarter- so it worked they felt smarter- not a bad thing.

  2.    jlietze said,

    on May 18th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

    Hi Allanah

    That’s an interesting thought. I can see some truth in what your saying. I too have done some Brain Gym and although the proposed results are hard to measure, we definitely had fun together and it was a nice break between lessons :+)

    I do believe (and I’m sure you agree) that it is good for us to critically reflect on our teaching and ask some of the harder questions like: “Does research back my approaches to teaching?”

    Thanks for commenting :-)

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