This isn't the beginning of Whole Brain teaching. The beginning was the 25 minutes of rehearsal before the video was shot. That's the part I want to see.
This doesn't look like the kids are really learning anything, rather they're just repeating what the teacher is saying and linking it to hand motions.
@theneverhoodx Before you can teach curriculum to any classroom, you have to teach the procedures and routines. They have to learn the rules and dynamics of that classroom. Once the kids have this down, they will be set up to begin learning the curriculum, and ideally it will result in more of the students on task during that time.
Seems a bit robotic to me. I would rather send my children to a school for the arts which in my opinion would encourage hands on participation and structure, yet also focuses on self expression. This classroom seems like an army. Who would enjoy sitting through this for an entire school day? I certainly wouldn't take it seriously after awhile. LOL
I know this comment may not be useful a year after the posting of this video... But I have to say this. I'm currently a high school student and I think this is a bad teaching method. They are repeating and memorizing, not analyzing and retaining (AKA learning). The best this does is create an expectation for behavior. But with this, they'll forget it all very quickly.
@imy939 You are missing the point. 'Whole brain' teaching enables you to LEARN by using your voice and your body, your eyes....---We all have different learning styles...if someone is a VISUAL learner---they are seeing movements and signals, if someone is an auditory learner--they are speaking it......Imagine this when trying to remember formulas for math....this is an amazing methodology for all learning types. I promise! :)
@melissagiglio I appreciate your response but I'm still missing the point. Seeing&hearing something is not enough (and this goes for a lot of other teaching styles as well) - THINKING is what's important. I have a bit of a bad memory, therefore I don't remember a lot of facts and formulas from past math, science, and history classes - stuff we heard, wrote down, and practiced. I remember only big ideas&concepts, the bases of stuff that we had to conclude on our own after receiving information.
@melissagiglio Maybe this is just me and my learning method. Either way I know some things must be memorized and there's no way around it, but I feel this turns everything into a memory game.
I like this and want to figure out how to teach reading and writing using interactvie methods. This keeps kids and even adults active and is more useful than dry studious methods. Who invented this?
Some people saying this is scary are missing the point. It's not a mind-control technique; it's group management. If you want people on task for a significant duration of time, you need to have the whole group's attention. The 'dear teacher happy' is an ironic inclusion, and anyone with half a brain would see the underlying humor in it. This is not indoctrination; it's simply getting a group on task. Any tool used incorrectly is dangerous. In the right hands, this can be effective.
By the way, I teach at a title 1 school and students behave. So don't think that what you see in movies is what we get at school. I love teaching and I just wish students will have more knolewedge tools when they get to high school so we could teach more. This does not happen ever... "this is bullshit, why aren't the kids throwing things at each other / at the teacher, on their phones and blackberries, and running around the classroom?"
@edwin44444 - People tend to underestimate at-risk kids which is why at-risk kids misbehave. They perform to the level that they are expected to perform. If you expect them to act a fool, they'll act a fool. If you expect them to achieve, they will achieve. And in my experience the kids tend to find this sort of classroom experience to be really fun, which helps them stick with it.
I teach High school chemistry, I like what I saw. How much can be implemented at the high school level is yet to be seen. Having students reteach concepts will help them remembering, I will give it a try to see how teens react to repeating and all the sign language behind it.
thank you for clearing that up! I am a avid believer in whole brain thinking, as it accommodates students that have different learning styles. Unfortunately, in my experience, most of my teachers did not embrace whole brain thinking, save only a few. They favored the logical mathematical learner and hassle me for not fitting in to their box
Clearly the kids were very enthusiastic about performing for a video and about the prospect of seeing themselves on You Tube. While this method does appear to have merit, how does one implement it on a daily basis without the "carrot" of potential celebrity for the students?
It is very successful, and easy and fun to use for you and the students. I was recently told by a high school science teacher that the students who had come from me, whether of high or lower academic ability, knew their chemistry basics better than any students she had ever had. These same students related that, because of WBT, remember the foundations for chemistry was really easy, even though they had last had it more than six months prior.
Until you establish a common vocabulary you cannot move on to the higher order thinking work. This approach eliminates the need for the kids to write hundreds of vocabulary definitions that they will not remember for long. Instead my science students can accurately and completely recall and explain concepts months after we have moved on, and teach them back to me or other students. What you are seeing in a video is the very small tip of a huge iceberg.
At that age, I would've been the one sitting in the back, doodling in my notebook, drawing rude pictures, or reading a comic hidden behind the textbook.
One of the great things about WBT is that it is very flexible and changes from day to day. What you are seeing is an example of a class that is being introduced to the basics. This would happen a couple of times, no more than was necessary, and then they would use the approach and much more beyond this, to look at their curriculum.
this is bullshit, why aren't the kids throwing things at each other / at the teacher, on their phones and blackberries, and running around the classroom?
@NCWBTeacher - I have used this method of teaching very successfully with five year olds. They don't need to understand it because it is fun for them. :)
This really works. I used this method today with my students and has greatly improved my performance in the classroom. thanks for such an important video!!
This really works. I used this method today with my students and has greatly improved my performance in the classroom. thanks for such an important video!!
@luismigueles1 This really works. I used this method today with my students and has greatly improved my performance in the classroom. thanks for such an important video!!
This isn't the beginning of Whole Brain teaching. The beginning was the 25 minutes of rehearsal before the video was shot. That's the part I want to see.
mikebrady01 2 weeks ago
This doesn't look like the kids are really learning anything, rather they're just repeating what the teacher is saying and linking it to hand motions.
theneverhoodx 3 weeks ago
@theneverhoodx Before you can teach curriculum to any classroom, you have to teach the procedures and routines. They have to learn the rules and dynamics of that classroom. Once the kids have this down, they will be set up to begin learning the curriculum, and ideally it will result in more of the students on task during that time.
carterface04 4 days ago
The kids looks like they having fun ... what is wbt suppose to achieve? And does it work?
pabmove 1 month ago
These children are trained well.
crossoverkid12 2 months ago
i've seen a few comments, but would this be effective in a title one school?
thischickencanfly 3 months ago
Seems a bit robotic to me. I would rather send my children to a school for the arts which in my opinion would encourage hands on participation and structure, yet also focuses on self expression. This classroom seems like an army. Who would enjoy sitting through this for an entire school day? I certainly wouldn't take it seriously after awhile. LOL
slackey04 3 months ago
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slackey04 3 months ago
so much for thinking for yourself.
doesthismakeanysense 4 months ago
I know this comment may not be useful a year after the posting of this video... But I have to say this. I'm currently a high school student and I think this is a bad teaching method. They are repeating and memorizing, not analyzing and retaining (AKA learning). The best this does is create an expectation for behavior. But with this, they'll forget it all very quickly.
imy939 4 months ago
@imy939 You are missing the point. 'Whole brain' teaching enables you to LEARN by using your voice and your body, your eyes....---We all have different learning styles...if someone is a VISUAL learner---they are seeing movements and signals, if someone is an auditory learner--they are speaking it......Imagine this when trying to remember formulas for math....this is an amazing methodology for all learning types. I promise! :)
melissagiglio 4 months ago
@melissagiglio I appreciate your response but I'm still missing the point. Seeing&hearing something is not enough (and this goes for a lot of other teaching styles as well) - THINKING is what's important. I have a bit of a bad memory, therefore I don't remember a lot of facts and formulas from past math, science, and history classes - stuff we heard, wrote down, and practiced. I remember only big ideas&concepts, the bases of stuff that we had to conclude on our own after receiving information.
imy939 4 months ago
@melissagiglio Maybe this is just me and my learning method. Either way I know some things must be memorized and there's no way around it, but I feel this turns everything into a memory game.
imy939 4 months ago
This is a rip-off from military standards and practices but teachers have always said, "borrow, cheat, steal..."
89bhs 5 months ago
I like this and want to figure out how to teach reading and writing using interactvie methods. This keeps kids and even adults active and is more useful than dry studious methods. Who invented this?
runtolight 5 months ago
Some people saying this is scary are missing the point. It's not a mind-control technique; it's group management. If you want people on task for a significant duration of time, you need to have the whole group's attention. The 'dear teacher happy' is an ironic inclusion, and anyone with half a brain would see the underlying humor in it. This is not indoctrination; it's simply getting a group on task. Any tool used incorrectly is dangerous. In the right hands, this can be effective.
wolfwilliams 5 months ago
This is not teaching, this is training kids to respond to stimuli. What is the outcome of this pedagogy?
TheGr8stDude 5 months ago
@TheGr8stDude Exactly what I was thinking.
adariawilson3 5 months ago
i already started the year not using this..maybe next year i'll use this
lhimpiso 7 months ago
@lhimpiso
It's really not too late to start -- watch this video and his tips on starting later in the year. It's called Whole Brain Teaching Lesson 1.
paxlacey 5 months ago
any of you guys ever see the movie "The Wave"? you might want to check it out
nefasest 7 months ago
@nefasest dude, that's the first thing I thought.
doesthismakeanysense 4 months ago
what do you do if a kid refuses to follow or gets out of his seat and slaps someone?
nefasest 7 months ago 8
This is scary
terror0earth 7 months ago
HATE HIM ALREADY
MrHopeTelevision 8 months ago 2
By the way, I teach at a title 1 school and students behave. So don't think that what you see in movies is what we get at school. I love teaching and I just wish students will have more knolewedge tools when they get to high school so we could teach more. This does not happen ever... "this is bullshit, why aren't the kids throwing things at each other / at the teacher, on their phones and blackberries, and running around the classroom?"
edwin44444 9 months ago
@edwin44444 - People tend to underestimate at-risk kids which is why at-risk kids misbehave. They perform to the level that they are expected to perform. If you expect them to act a fool, they'll act a fool. If you expect them to achieve, they will achieve. And in my experience the kids tend to find this sort of classroom experience to be really fun, which helps them stick with it.
HaloofCurls 8 months ago 2
I teach High school chemistry, I like what I saw. How much can be implemented at the high school level is yet to be seen. Having students reteach concepts will help them remembering, I will give it a try to see how teens react to repeating and all the sign language behind it.
edwin44444 9 months ago
I am soooo stealing this!!!
dbafutu 9 months ago
thank you for clearing that up! I am a avid believer in whole brain thinking, as it accommodates students that have different learning styles. Unfortunately, in my experience, most of my teachers did not embrace whole brain thinking, save only a few. They favored the logical mathematical learner and hassle me for not fitting in to their box
blackninja546 10 months ago
Clearly the kids were very enthusiastic about performing for a video and about the prospect of seeing themselves on You Tube. While this method does appear to have merit, how does one implement it on a daily basis without the "carrot" of potential celebrity for the students?
graciehunterII 11 months ago
@graciehunterII
It is very successful, and easy and fun to use for you and the students. I was recently told by a high school science teacher that the students who had come from me, whether of high or lower academic ability, knew their chemistry basics better than any students she had ever had. These same students related that, because of WBT, remember the foundations for chemistry was really easy, even though they had last had it more than six months prior.
NCWBTeacher 11 months ago
This is not about whole brain thinking at all! all it's doing is teaching the kids how to parrot the teacher's instructions!
blackninja546 11 months ago
@blackninja546
Until you establish a common vocabulary you cannot move on to the higher order thinking work. This approach eliminates the need for the kids to write hundreds of vocabulary definitions that they will not remember for long. Instead my science students can accurately and completely recall and explain concepts months after we have moved on, and teach them back to me or other students. What you are seeing in a video is the very small tip of a huge iceberg.
NCWBTeacher 11 months ago
At that age, I would've been the one sitting in the back, doodling in my notebook, drawing rude pictures, or reading a comic hidden behind the textbook.
I would find this guy annoying.
MondoBeno 1 year ago
what is tack time ? (on around 5:30)
britoin 1 year ago
@britoin I think he's saying "tech-time" which I interpret to mean, time to play on whatever "brain in a box" is in vogue this week.
graciehunterII 11 months ago
I wonder when kids get tired of this.
wezander 1 year ago
@wezander
One of the great things about WBT is that it is very flexible and changes from day to day. What you are seeing is an example of a class that is being introduced to the basics. This would happen a couple of times, no more than was necessary, and then they would use the approach and much more beyond this, to look at their curriculum.
NCWBTeacher 11 months ago
this is bullshit, why aren't the kids throwing things at each other / at the teacher, on their phones and blackberries, and running around the classroom?
19rated 1 year ago
@19rated
Because they understand why they are using the method, and they have more maturity and self control than four year olds.
NCWBTeacher 11 months ago
@NCWBTeacher - I have used this method of teaching very successfully with five year olds. They don't need to understand it because it is fun for them. :)
HaloofCurls 8 months ago
@NCWBTeacher Who said anything about four year olds? I was talking about the average fourteen year old in the UK, where this method would not work!
19rated 3 months ago
This really works. I used this method today with my students and has greatly improved my performance in the classroom. thanks for such an important video!!
aradney 1 year ago
This really works. I used this method today with my students and has greatly improved my performance in the classroom. thanks for such an important video!!
aradney 1 year ago
I used it today and it worked for me to keep the students alert.
albamzt 1 year ago
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Can whole brain teaching be used with three year olds as long as you keep it simple?
JSKern08 1 year ago
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JSKern08 1 year ago
Nice! I would definitely use this!
saulcordova 1 year ago
amazing...can't wait to try it
luismigueles1 1 year ago
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@luismigueles1 This really works. I used this method today with my students and has greatly improved my performance in the classroom. thanks for such an important video!!
aradney 1 year ago
OMG I love it!!! Can not wait to use this in my room this year!!!
grneyezrn 1 year ago
gonna use this in my future classroom! Thank you for sharing.
hrobbins 2 years ago
I norammly don't comment on videos, but I'm a teacher, I've been using this since August, and it works. Thanks Mr. Biffle!
EmersonMitchell 2 years ago 3
@EmersonMitchell
norammly???????
ginabina7988 5 months ago
It is a wonderful way!
HugoTurker 2 years ago
I could see great possibilities with this.
paisleyyama 2 years ago
Middle School is so intimidating for me to teach. :/
mhd76 2 years ago
Should be used in every classroom!
Limastudent 2 years ago 12