I LIKE TO MOVE IT, MOVE IT! Do you want to build a positive attitude, increase test scores, and positively influence behavior in your students?

-Movement Develops Neuropathways Neuropathways are directly related to experiences. Therefore, the more sensory experiences a child has, the faster the transmission will occur.

-Movement Develops Base Patterns Base patterns determine how we process and react to incoming information. Movement opportunities will balance base patterns and make sensory actives a positive experience. In turn, this will help students organize, sort, and integrate information they receive during the school day,

-Movement Helps with Working Memory you can use movement to help students anchor their thoughts. Research shows kinesthetic actives are powerful in the classroom in aiding student understanding. Movement helps us use the both sides of our brain!

Ferry,Melissa.(2011).HowMovementintheClassroomcanHelpyourChildwith SpecialNeeds.

How does movement help students during

school?

Examples Of

Movement

Movement in learning is a teaching method using physical activity throughout a class during lessons or in between lessons where students move outside of their seat.

- Dancing the interpretation of a poem - Stretching before or after a lesson - Walking around to different corners of a classroom

where different subunits of information can be provided.

- When teaching a government lesson over local, state, and federal levels of government, you can list several examples and the kids make their arms into an L, S, or F to answer.

- A dance activity that follows an insect metamorphosis lesson and observations of caterpillars and butterflies can be done as a class, or in small groups that will perform for each other.

- Role playing during a social studies lesson

Movement Supports:

Everyone! But those that greatly benefit in the classroom from movement are students with learning disabilities such as

-ADHD

-Autism

-Intellectual Disability

-Emotional Disturbance

-Specific Learning Disability

HowtoImplementMovementinYourClassroom!- Integrate Movement into Lessons – Get students actively involved

into the lesson. For example when doing a punctuation review lesson, kids can clap for a period or even stand up and make a “pop” noise for an exclamation point. Another example would be to label to add colored sheets to corners of the classroom and ask kids a content question, which they move to the corresponding corner to show their answer.

- Use Cooperative Learning Activities- Pair up students (teamwork). Share and Switch is where students share what they think or created whether it is a paragraph or an idea, they walk around the room until the teacher says stop and share.

- Add Brain Breaks- Add some breaks during lessons. During the break students add some movement activities such as Simon says games or even put on a song that students can dance to.

Movement supports all learners! 50% of students feel they learn best when movement

is involved!

Shake it off! Shake it off!

Movement: -Builds Confidence

- Teaches Body Awareness

-Promotes Social Interaction

-Allows Creative Expression

-Enhances blood flow that increases the amount of oxygen transported to the brain.

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