Educators used to think that people had more of a fixed brain power. Whatever you were born with, that is what you would have for life.
Brain research has informed us! Now we know that with practice, training, and methods such as visualization, we can increase our attention, our memory, our thinking and literally become more intelligent that we were before.
People have more capacity for lifelong learning and brain development that was ever thought previously.
For Exploring Vocabulary: We can begin by using imagery to learn new vocabulary. It helps us remember, connect our thinking, imagine, wonder, and think about our thinking.
For Blooms Taxonomy: One way we can learn about thinking is to discuss 6 different thinking patterns, found in Blooms Taxonomy. We will learn one at a time and think about how to visualize as you perform each thinking pattern