Preparing learners for tomorrow's world

Developing executive brain functions

By Herbert Puchta
南京外国语学校
To be an educator more than a language teacher
discipline problems
moral questions
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concern

Teaching stages
Stage I

Teaching as Transmission transmit knowledge

Stage 2
Teaching as Transaction ChaeSs interact with eachother
Stage 3
Teaching as Transformation I concern Ss cognitive development
enable Tds to fully achieve their potentials

Two types of integrate cortex

Frontintegrate cortex
Choice decisions to act
mental energy consequences
creating predicting responsibility

sniff radio nd didactic approach

Back integrate cortex
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understanding languageflashbacks
Beer teaching results emotions related to experiences
could be achieved when long term memory facts people
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both front and back ⼼ ⽐ faces experiences
are involved in class The Discovery Approach
 learning 21St century skills requires 21St century
teaching _Saavreadadopfer.az
unprepared
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This is what teachers should do
Executive Skills
Working memory the ability to holdinformation in mind
l and use it
When doing listening task comprehending passages writing
Taking conversations
control the ability to master thoughts
Inhibitory
and impulses to resist temptations

Cognitive flexibility the capacity to switch gears and

l adjust to changing priorities
in conversations conversations do not always go like the text

Several poetical activities

Working memory activities
memory game present pics ad flash away
Read and aet out
Teaching an action story TPR sequence
Teacher present it d hae
The m back task Ss follow him
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cognitive flexing
Do as I not as I do
say
who
says it Play Simon says
an only do what Simon
says t Jennifer
Reversed intrusion do the reversed instruction