Gesture--especially movement during a short period of total silence--is a fine way to wake up the attention of students. My 8 weeks of improv training enriched all my classsroom presentations. The gestural is a channel of its own and should be used.
In some research, a teacher's #gestures help students learn #math. When should we use this technique? In this study by @susanwagnercook, those gestures benefit students who have high levels of visual-spatial working memory. SO COOL. https://t.co/itO…
@renialo I have a number of datasets like this that I am working on publishing. Here is one from my lab that did not find a difference across instructional groups: https://t.co/IVaBvKPwL5