Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Understanding Student #Overstimulation What Every Teacher Needs To Know #teachertips #ndoutloud

29 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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Students have the most mental energy in the morning and lose it as the day goes on. Complex tasks like high school math scheduled late in the day produce worse results than morning lessons. Schools should shift hard subjects to early hours to match when students' brains work best.

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As your student starts to walk through the day, like everybody has a lot of cognitive load in the morning. Like you have a lot of brainpower in the morning, but as you march through the day, it decreases. So end of the day, you ask your student to do a really complex task. Like let's say they're a high school student and they have math at the end of the day. They're not gonna get as much outta that math class as they would as if they had it in the morning. And so knowing these things, especially if you're an administrator, There are some things that you can do, some very easy things you can do that will change the culture in your building.