Pract•ad•goal is a word host Heather Holloway created. It is the sum total of the words ‘practical advancement goals.’ Her intention with this podcast is to teach entrepreneurs how to advance their careers with practical business advice.
We all want the best for our children, and that includes giving them a quality education. Yet, science education in the United States is currently facing a crisis.
Too many students are disengaged from science and achieving at dismal levels, which is why scientist and Real Science-4-Kids author and publisher, Dr. Rebecca Woodbury, has created a new way to learn anything and by doing so giving students of any age a chance to love learning like they never have before.
After studying the way people learn, Dr. Woodbury developed the RATATAZ method, an acronym for
Read
Ask
Test
Answer
TAZ (Tazzle – a word created from talk, tell, and dazzle)
To learn more about the movement and the RATATAZ method, read the show notes below.
Practadgoal Talking Points
[2:19] Rebecca’s story of being an entrepreneur for over 20 years
- It all started with her passion to change science textbooks because elementary school textbooks do not prepare children for high school and college-level science.
- She started to write science books, initially just for her kids, until requests kept on coming in and her business officially was born.
[7:21] The “Lost Einsteins”
- The Lost Einstein is the child who doesn’t have the exposure to science terms, concepts and practice that they need.
- When they get older, they then just opt out of STEAM careers or fields.
[11:02] What is RATATAZ?
- Books don’t translate to learning, so RATATAZ was born from Rebecca’s desire to answer the question, “how do people learn?”
- Telling her story about learning how to use the OneWheel skateboard, Rebecca discusses the meanings of RATATAZ, which are basically the steps of actual learning: Read/Research, Ask, Test, Answer, Talk, Tell and Dazzle (TAZzle).
- RATATAZ does away with the usual educational method of “responding to and answering other people’s questions.”
- The empowerment of learning comes into play when you ask and answer your own questions in your own way.
[22:18] A discussion of the last piece of RATATAZ, which is TAZzle (talk, tell, dazzle)
- This is called “retrieval practice.”
- When you tell somebody what you just learned, you learn it even better.
- If you really want to communicate something powerful to somebody, you got to try to tell and dazzle and figure out how can you communicate something to the audience in a way that excites them.
[24:37] RATATAZ and entrepreneurs
- Once you learn how to RATATAZ, you can RATATAZ anything: from science subjects, to how to become a better manager or CEO, to a million-dollar idea that you might have.
- RATATAZ-ing anything is to not think outside the box but to learn how to break the box.
- Entrepreneurs are “box breakers.” You want to take that box, and you want to create something new with it.
- Employing the RATATAZ method could result in you having a solution to some problem that nobody else has answered because they haven’t asked your question.
[32:34] What can RATATAZ do?
- It’s a great way or method to get through obstacles in life.
- It can squash limiting beliefs, as it is an empowering 5-step process.
- It allows you to have fun and be playful while doing the process.
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