Wiz Response

I felt like this presentation had a lot in it that was useful. I really liked your wiki page, because it was full of resources and it helped to unify your presentation. One thing I thought was highly important from the book was the section on memory. As teachers we need to make sure we've got our students' attention and that they are remembering what we teach them. Also, we need to become students of how the brain functions in order to maximize our teaching time. Lastly, it's really important that we make our classroom environment welcoming, because it becomes a home for our students.

I also have a few pieces of constructive criticism for you. A lot of the specifics about the parts of the brain and how it works weren't really relevant, yet you kept telling us to "remember them for the activity after." This was contradictory to everything you were teaching us, because you weren't helping us to learn the material and remember it. Overall, one thing that I think would have been helpful was to have a mini-activity between each section, so that you could make use of the down-time that you taught us our minds' have. This would also have helped to make for easier transition throughout the presentation, and maybe if one activity had been kinesthetic, it would have reduced antsy-ness.