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 * Please respond to these questions by June 8, 2012.**

This final pre-institute reading has been chosen as a response to many of your posts suggesting that you are encouraged to make changes in your teaching when you hear that a strategy leads to student success. In recent years, a great deal of research has been done on the brain and the connection between movement and learning – the results have been overwhelmingly significant. For our final post, I’d like each of you, after reading the article, to take an inventory of the learning environment that you have created in your classroom and comment on the following:

1.) Describe the physical environment you have created in your classroom. Do you encourage students to keep chairs and tables where they belong – or do you encourage students to move furniture to accommodate different lessons (groups pushing tables together to work, sitting on the floor in a circle, all tables and chairs pushed to the exterior of the space…)

2.) Do you encourage student movement as a strategy for transitioning from one subject to another within your classroom?

3.) Give an example of a time when you have used movement to help teach a new concept.

4.) Give an example of time when you have used movement for formative assessment (to be sure students are grasping new information prior to final assessment).

5.) What inhibits you from using movement in your classroom? (ex. Student safety, losing control of the discipline, physical limitations of the space…)

==** To respond to these questions, click the discussion bubbles above (in the right corner), and begin a new post to record your answers. **==