Comments on: Total Body Learning: Movement & Academics http://hightestscores.org/2009/05/total-body-learning-movement-academics/ Practical Strategies for Co-taught, Inclusive, and Differentiated Classrooms! Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:05:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Susan Fitzell http://hightestscores.org/2009/05/total-body-learning-movement-academics/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Susan Fitzell Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:11:02 +0000 http://susanfitzell.edublogs.org/?p=149#comment-71 Diane, Thank you for sharing your successful experience with movement in the classroom. I love to hear validation that these strategies work in the trenches. Susan Diane,
Thank you for sharing your successful experience with movement in the classroom. I love to hear validation that these strategies work in the trenches.
Susan

]]> By: Diane With http://hightestscores.org/2009/05/total-body-learning-movement-academics/comment-page-1/#comment-69 Diane With Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:12:27 +0000 http://susanfitzell.edublogs.org/?p=149#comment-69 I've been using movement more in my classroom recently, and it engages students and helps them to remember information. We did exercises to remember the plot line, certain claps for author's tone, and jumps for predicting. The students love it whenever we begin with movement and they stay with me the entire time. Movement works. I teach sixth grade at the middle school level. I’ve been using movement more in my classroom recently, and it engages students and helps them to remember information.
We did exercises to remember the plot line, certain claps for author’s tone, and jumps for predicting. The students love it whenever we begin with movement and they stay with me the entire time. Movement works.

I teach sixth grade at the middle school level.

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