Teacher Test
- Q. What creates more links between brain sites?
new experiences
and all information inputs.
- Q. What do memory patterns trigger?
auditory and visual
searches by thousands
of your "search engines"
- Q. What do these engines do?
find and discard the less usuable
information within milliseconds.
- Q. How does the brain retrieve sound & images?
in pictures & scenarios.
- Q. This enables you to do what?
to talk & write the information
to meet the needs
of your listener or reader
- Q. Making simultaneous memory patterns creates what?
webs & links
needed for rapid memory
- Q. These links are______________&_______________.
visual & auditory.
- Q. What is the second 5 minutes "tell back"?
an auditory review
of the first 5 minutes.
- Q. What happens while you're speaking & listening?
The mind races
through a "sorting procedure"
or a "learning procedure".
- Q. The mind organizes the material for _________&____________.
speaking & writing.
- Q. What does the third 5 minutes "fast- write" do?
It condenses the original
auditory input into
10 to 20 short sentences
or 150 words.
- Q. What are some things that can make the learning rate drop precipitously?
Child becomes less
dependent on parent.
Child learns to
crawl & walk away.
Parents reduce the time
they hold the child.
Child has less
contact with parents & phrases.
Parent returns
to older children.
Parent may have
another baby.
Parent returns to work.
- Q. What is the memory pattern?
a unique "map"
or indexing of the material.
- Q. What does mapping enable you to do?
to "save" then "retrieve"
and reassemble the input.
- Q. What creates a "cluster"?
the two word phrases
you scribble on the
memory pattern and
are connected with lines.
- Q. What is "output"?
restatements during the tellback
restatements during the fast-write.
- Q. What are some "positives" for Peterson Phrase Lists?
- an essential starting
point for learning
new subjects.
- efficient rapid input
of learning components.
- repetition of input
- common usage phrases
- multiple word inputs
get stored in multiple
files in your brain.
- chorusing practices
quickly train your mouth
& voice muscles to
make the correct sounds.
- chorusing practices
reduce time wasting regressions
questions, poor comprehension
& overwriting.
- Q. Name three of Carl's belief's:
- Learning is admired.
- Writing earns almost universal respect.
- Touch typing is job security for life.
- Q. Name some things that help insure Success with learning:
Correct instructional model.
Exposure, Exposure, Exposure.
Listen, Listen, Listen.
Notes, Notes, Notes.
Restate, Restate, Restate.
Write, Write, Write.
Result is usable memory.
Accumulate.
Acknowledge, understand, comprehend.
Perform an integration
with prior knowledge.
Oral tell-back rehearsal
before writing.
- Q. What are some priorities to making gains?
- Strict timing
- Fast auditory inputs
- Verbal output practices
- Listening to students.
Mind 555
- Q. Name some ways you used your eyes & ears to acquire information.
- Built an enormous
database of facts & events.
- Copied facial gesturing
by caregiver responses.
- Accumulated opinions.
- Learned to manipulate adults.
- Copied many adult
preferences, likes, & dislikes.
- Q. As you grow older most experts agree that learning_____________.
slows down.
- Q. Oral input to infants can include __________to ___________
new phrases per day.
several dozen- several hundred.
- Q. Peterson Reading inputs at the rate of ________to _______words per hour and ________to_______phrases per hour.
10,000 to 20,000 and 4,000 TO 5,000.
- Q. 500 hours of input equals ------ words and -------phrases.
5 million and 2 million.
Stroke 555
- Q. Frustration with slow recovery progress can quickly deteriorate into what?
Hopelessness & refusals
to participate in therapy.
- Q. What can refusals do to rehabilitation?
halt or hinder rehabilitation.
- Q. Memory pictures are a _____ ______ stimulant with the injured person in the hospital.
positive conversation
- Q. What must we do with learned material for it to be remembered?
it must be
refreshed occasionally.
- Q. What do our life experiences determine?
our later learning
receptiveness and recognition.
- Q. Where do a consensus of experts feel new information is stored?
In many if not thousands
of cells.
- Q. Input gets connected with what?
A large web
of interlocking information.
- Q. Even though the pictures may not be your pictures, the experiences they show may be similar to:
- your previous experiences
- videos you've viewed
- experiences of your friends
- situations you've heard about.
- Q. What helps to unlock stored memory?
visual sensations.
- Q. Memory responses to triggers is ________and _______.
fast and decisive.
Infants
- Q. What do injured minds demand?
quick answers as soon
as questioning abilities
are re-awakened
- Q. What are injured patients more responsive to?
meaningful phrases
more than letters or words
- Q. How long have Meaning Phrases and Accelerated Thinking been effective in our classrooms?
Since 1989.
- Q. What do both programs do?
Change the balance of success or failure
create a diversion from daily concerns
instruct with fast input.
- Q. What is a phrase?
A combination of 2 to 5 words
that instruct or convey meaning
They're the building blocks of speaking
and writing.
- Q. Body language and sets of hand signals are a form of __________________ .
Phrases.
- Q. At what age do experts say the average child is capable of quality speech sounds?
2.2 years
- Q. What kind of minds demand quick answers?
Injured.
- Q. Why do they need quick answers?
Before they get
discouraged with slow
or limited answers.
- Q. What is 555?
A very fast study method
that helps you organize, speak
write and remember
more facts and details
- Q. Retraining minds should be similar to what?
To original infant
training as possible.
- Q. How is this done?
We chorus or copy high-speed
meaning phrase models with self-correction
rather than teacher correction.
We present many repetitive examples
before correction or criticism.
- Q. What do the best models emphasize?
auditory input
repetitive input
non-judgmental input
- Q. What can slow progress?
When we become impatient.
- Q. What is more than enough to explain most bright and dull children?
A learning environment assessment.
- Q. Do we know for sure what is actually happening in the brain?
No
- Q. What does the mind have fantastically fast ability to do?
To turn collections of words
into mental pictures or scenarios.
- Q. What do meaning phrases deliver?
They deliver phonetic sounds
at familiar speaking speeds rather than
the slow speeds of traditional phonics.
- Q. Why are words and letters hard to memorize?
Because they must be paired
with other words or gestures
to have meaning.
- Q. What do endless phrase repetitions during infancy turn into?
The complex vocabulary of a
three-year-old
The very correct grammar of the
three and four-year-old child.
- Q. What fraction of children fail to make the transition from spoken meaning phrases to meaningless letters and words?
1/3
- Q. How can we increase the memory and usefulness of the information?
By scheduling 555's for multiple
reprocessing of the material.
- Q. The first 5 minutes of the 555 is called ____________________ .
Input
- Q. What happens in this 5 minutes?
Listening to an oral reading or
recorded input.
Multiple subvocalizations
while writing words and phrases
on the memory pattern
Active processing and re-processing
of the relevant ideas and supporting details
during note taking.
Quick capture of details
that would have otherwise
overwritten by following sentences
and paragraphs.
- Q. What is the result?
Improve memory and ability
to use the material in a spoken
then written form.
- Q. The second 5 minutes of the 555 is called the ________________ .
Tellback.
- Q. What happens in this 5 minutes?
restatements
inner-speech restatements
as you select from the memory
pattern and millions
or billions of information chunks stored
in your brain.
This extraordinary
selection and re-selection
process happens in milliseconds.
- Q. The third 5 minutes of the 555 is called the __________________ .
Fast-write
- Q. What happens in this 5 minutes?
inner speech or subvocalization
of words as you
construct your written
sentences.
Subvocalizations as you choose
the phrases or chunks of words
that will makeyour sentences.
- Q. What do short-term rewards do?
Work to train a new behavior.
- Q. What do we do when only long-term rewards are available?
Tend to defer or procrastinate the necessary effort.
- Q. Name some of the benefits of short-term rewards:
- Hear and enjoy
the words of the writer.
- Comprehend new subjects as we
organize them on the memory pattern.
- Limit pronunciation fears.
- Limit pronunciation
embarrassment and
constructive criticism.
- Get to talk to acquaintances
during the tell-back. (a big social reward)
- Have predictable opportunities for
someone to listen to you.
- Q. When we are silent reading, the mind is diverted by:
- Trying to subvocalize
unfamiliar words.
- Trying to avoid
confusing regressions.
- The mind is also discouraged
by overwriting previous material.
- Q. Define overwriting.
The immediate loss of previous
information.
- Q. What does the memory pattern allow us to do?
To tie isolated thoughts into
an organized and logical tell-back.
Ewriting
- Q. Writing in Peterson ewritting style is a great ______________ exercise.
Mind.
- Q. The mind is very involved in making the ___________ __________ as you write.
Formatting changes
- Q. How are the sentences placed?
Sentences are one or more phrases placed vertically rather than horizontally.
- Q. What might happen to your thoughts and ideas when using paragraph style?
They may get lost and hard
to sort out.
- Q. Short meaning clusters are formatted to do what?
To signal the readers mind.
- Q. What else do clusters do?
Transmit the writers intentions
more clearly.
Are separated by line spaces.
Allow faster recognition.
Readers can understand and
remember more accurate recognition.
Allow faster and more accurate
recognition.
- Q. What are two advantages of ewritting for business and government?
Improves communication
and help with product marketing.
- Q. Ewriting saves _____________ and ________________.
Time and money.
- Q. If you are short of time, what should you consider?
Ewritting and ereading.
- Q. What are some Ewritting styles?
- Multiple punctuation levels.
- Minimum punctuation
- More punctuation.
- Traditional punctuation.
- Q. How do you ewrite? Name several things you do:
- Write one thought
on each line.
- Use a period
and a line space.
- Al titles flush left.
- No centering.
- No indents at beginning
of paragraphs.
- No paragraphs.
- No semicolons.
- No or limited commas.
- Make sentences shorter.
- Make vertical
clusters out
of your sentences.
- The first line states the situation
or asks the questions.
- The next and following
lines define and clarify.
- More following
lines give
or multiple answers.
- Q. What do long sentences do to readers?
Might become confused
and miss your point.
Far exceed a reader's short term
memory skills.
- Q. How often do infants practice decision making in their first years?
Billions of times.
Handwriting
- Q. What are some reasons for poor handwriting?
- A negative response
to constructive criticism
in toddler and preschool years.
- "color between the lines"
and other disparaging
remarks limit necessary practices.
- limited practice
- competing activities
- TV and computer games
- Q. What does lack of handwriting success cause?
avoidance
- Q. How is handwriting taught?
In high speed practices.
- Q. Handwriting avoidance is usually a reaction to previous:
- constructive criticism
- public putdowns
- feelings of inadequacy
- unable to please parents
- low self-esteem
- low self-concept
- apologizing for handwriting
- Q. What is a result of handwriting practice?
Homework quickly
becomes regular and usually takes
less than an hour.
- Q. How can we rationalize the time we spend on handwriting practice?
We're making Improvements
in other areas at the same time.
- Q. Is there anything allowed to interfere or halt student practice time?
No.
- Q. What does self-correction develop?
Critical thinking skills.
- Q. What is a negative of slow practices?
Allow too much time
for the student to be critical.
- Q. When does the child need to see a solution?
Within months
not years.
- Q. Learning cursive is helpful for what?
Speed.
- Q. Why are cursive word counts consistently higher?
The pen doesn't
have to leave
the paper as much.
It may be
easier to establish
a rhythm.
- Q. What has replaced many forms of handwriting?
Word processing
on computers.
- Q. What is essential for note taking?
High speed writing.
- Q. Why do we need to take (write) notes?
to remember
A computer isn't always available
Hand-held personal
computer note-taking Is too slow
Palm pilots require
to learn different
slow printing styles.
- Q. Early writing failures might have been exacerbated by what?
A slight developmental
delay of coordination skills.
- Q. Most coordination problems will disappear before __________.
Kindergarten
