Analysis Of The Deep Practice Cell

Chapter 1 The Sweet Spot: Deep Practice involves resiliently setting a standard slightly higher than you can reach. To do this you need intrinsic motivation, because the harder you work at something the more chance you have to enhance your skills and remember it better. When you find the "optimal gap between what you know and what you 're trying to do," is when you are deep practicing says Robert Bjork, psychology professor. Deep practicing involves making plenty of little mistakes and then making a number of minor adjustments to correct the mistake. For example when a student is trying to remember their spelling words and just can’t seem to remember them; He/She can make a minor adjustment such as the word ‘Lunch’ you can connect it to another thing and make it a fragment. ‘L_nch’ you will stumble over the word and struggle, but then soon see that the word is lunch and its missing the letter u. you will remember it better because you struggled, you set your goals a little higher and then
Myelin is a matter that wraps and shields the neurons that are firing signals to the synapse; this mechanism looks like a circuit, and myelin is allowing it to fire faster and most efficiently by isolating it from the other neurons so the signal doesn’t get of track and can travel at a specific speed. Myelin comes and goes with age that’s why it’s easier for a kid to learn new things. Myelin will not unwrap; once it is there its there to stay. This is why its hard to break a habit. To break a habit you need to be in deep practice, building more myelin to rewire and make the new habit better than the old. In a classroom room you can help your students build myelin by repetition and intentionally working out of their comfort zone. Each student will have a different learning style and your job is to push them and help set their standards higher, helping them become equally great in all the learning