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The ITI model begins with an understanding of six learning principles derived from brain research.
- Intelligence is a function of experience; Emotions are the gatekeeper to learning and performance; All cultures use multiple intelligences to solve problems and to produce products; The brain's search for meaning is a search for patterns; Learning is the acquisition of useful mental programs; One's personality has an impact on learning
The ITI model uses 9 bodybrain-compatible elements as a guide for applying the research through thoughtfully written curriculum and carefully selected instructional strategies.
- Help students feel free from anxieties and associate positive emotions with learning.
- Develop curriculum that has relevance.
- Provide options as to how learning will occur, considering multiple intelligences and personality preferences.
- Provide enough time for students to thoroughly explore, understand, and use information and skills.
- Provide a learning environment that reflects what's being that.
- Have students work together to solve problems, explore, and create.
- Provide coaching to promote effective first teaching / learning.
- Ensure a curriculum focus so that students acquire mental programs to use what they've learned in real-life situations.
- Movement is crucial to every brain function, including memory, emotion, language, and learning. It is obvious that having students sit quietly in rows is a worst case scenario for the brain. What it needs is active participation from its partner, the body.
In an ITI classroom, students know what they are studying and why. The focus is on developing student understanding of important concepts, such as change, cause, effect, and interdependence. "What's going on around here?", state district standards, and local learner goals are integrated into the content being studied. The key question is: How will what students are learning lead to responsible, productive citizens?
Integrated Curriculum in the ITI model answers two critical questions:
- What do you want students to understand?
- What do you want them to do with what they understand?
http://www.kovalik.com/rss51540/brain.html Internet: accessed September 24, 2003
