This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 118 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode I'm going to talk about why and how you can boost learning in your classroom

by adding movement.

If you were to start singing the It's Ebitsy Spider right now,

I bet you'd have a hard time keeping your hands still.

That's because most of us who know the song learned it with gestures and things we learn with

physical movement tend to stick. We can apply that same principle to classroom learning,

using movement to enhance learning from preschool all the way through college.

In this episode we're going to take a look at what the research says about movement-based learning

and then explore six different ways you can add more movement to your instruction.

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