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The more a teacher knows about neuroscience the more differentiated his or her instruction will be.
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Students should be praised for their intelligence not their effort.
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The ability of the brain to change stops around the age of 16.
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Human brains seek and often quickly detect novelty.
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Humans use about 10% of their brains.
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Integrating the arts into the curriculum enhances learning and understanding.
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Informing students before an assessment that they will receive feedback/results sooner lessens their performance.
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Providing students opportunities to self-correct wrong answers enhances retention of information.
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Spaced instruction and studying enhance long-term memory consolidation better than mass instruction and review.
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There are brain differences by race.
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Listening to music with words while studying enhances a student’s ability to learn material.
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A student’s emotions affect learning, memory, and recall of information.
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Frequent, ungraded, formative assessments enhance memory consolidation.
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Multi-tasking reduces memory consolidation.
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Some students are left-brained and some students are right-brained.
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Regularly changing the decorations and/or organization of a classroom enhances attention.
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Individuals learn better when teachers teach and assess in their preferred learning styles.
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In a class period, the information that is delivered first is what students remember best and the information that comes last is what the students remember second best.
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Sleep enhances memory consolidation.
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Learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat.
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Having students memorize information is an outdated instructional strategy.
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Providing students choice in their learning enhances engagement and deepens learning.
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Brains are able to multitask.
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The more teachers understand principles from educational neuroscience the more they will believe in a student’s ability to improve their academic performance.