Non-LinguisticRepresentations

AKA:

Creating Pictures in the Mind

Did U Know?• Linguistic= learning from talking• Non-Linguistic= learning from not talking

(mental images)

• Teachers present most of their new info by talking or by reading.

• This means students have to come up with their own mental images (non-linguistic representations) to get it.

MAKE IT STICK!

Try These NL Reps:1. Creating Pictures/Pictographs

2. Kinesthetic Activity

3. Creating Graphic Representations

4. Physical Models

(symbolic pictures in the mind)

• Powerful way to generate non-linguistic representations in the mind.

• Pictograph is just a drawing that uses symbols to represent information.

Creating Pictures

First Concept of the Year:“Social Studies…Is a Tree”

S.S.

GovernmentCultureHis

tory

Geogr

aphy

Economics

Boring Concept: 5 Themes of Geography

Introducing Mr. Lip:Movement, Region, Location, Interaction, Place

Boring Concept:Four Major World Religions

HI, CJ!

•Hinduism •Islam•Christianity•Judaism

Need Ideas?

Use the Gallery tab of your Smartboard to get all kinds of pictures and

ideas!

(learning using physical movement)

Specific knowledge

+ physical movement=

mental image

in the mind of the learner.

Specific Knowledge I wanted them to know:

• Mesopotamia was located in present day Iraq.

• Mesopotamia means “land between two rivers”

• The rivers are the Tigres and Euphrates• Sumer and Tyber were two major city-states.• Babylon was the most famous known for its

beautiful hanging gardens.• Hammurabi was the king of Babylon.

Mesopotamia Song

I created a kinesthetic song that got them out of their seats and helped their brain retain the knowledge I was trying to teach.

Mrs. Warrell’s Closet Songs• SS is a Tree• Mr. Lip• Hi, CJ• Mesopotamia Song• Egypt Song• Ancient Greek

Alphabet• Ancient India Song

• Ancient Chinese Dynasties

• Meso-America Song• Spanish Alphabet

(Exploration Period)• 13 Colonies Song• US state songs• US capital songs

***I was able to teach the northern border US states to my flex class and assess them in just three minutes using a song. All but 3 students could correctly label all of the northern border states just three minutes after learning the song.

Not comfortable moving and shaking?

• Try having the students take some of your toughest content and have them compete to make a song with movements that will help them retain the information.

• Example: Molly’s Art Elements Song written by Molly, Dave’s Elements of Music Song written by students.

• Make up acronyms and incorporate simple movements.

(combine linguistic and non-linguistic)

Six Types of GOs

• Descriptive Pattern• Time-Sequence Pattern• Process/Cause-Effect Pattern• Episode Pattern• Generalization/Principle Pattern• Concept Pattern

***Students retain info in the brain by seeing and learning patterns.

Representations of what is being learned

Physical Models

• A.K.A. “manipulatives” by science and math teachers.

• The very act of generating a concrete model makes an “image” in the students’ minds.

The Key• Instead of just having students listen to

you talk about the new content or having them read about it, it is essential that you help provide non-linguistic representations to help them develop images in their minds.

• This will help the students retain the concepts you are teaching at greater rates.

Help Them Visualize it in their minds!

The Evil Mr. Hippocampus:takes away all the info you

don’t regularly use!

Help fight against Mr. Hippocampus by giving

your students non-linguisticrepresentations!

CCT Time

• As a team, share the non-linguistic representations that you currently use to teach concepts in your class.

• Are there any NLReps that you could use in all your classes? EX: MR. LIP in SS, The “Toolbox” in Language Arts.