Chapter 3: Brain Research Applied to Middle School

I really liked this chapter because of the different way that Wormeli suggested making connections in more than one way when introducing new ideas. I liked when he wrote "When we make the right kind of connections for students, we can help the content catch a ride on one of the senses as the thoughts enter their brains." I've found that when you make connections between what you're teaching and the things that connected to their likes and passions. I also thought that it was interesting that our memories remain remarkably intact but we have a very hard time retrieving them. Something that I found very neat, and will come in extremely handy in the long run, is the fact that emotional cues help middle school students retain information. The more we know about the way the brain works the easier job we will have as teachers for getting our students to completely learn and remember the information that is important.