6 Simple Ways To Reduce Student Stress In The Classroom
How do you make your students feel? Research is clear that the answer to this question can have a profound effect on the learning that occurs within your class or ...
Tag: Brain-Based Learning Resources
Brain-based learning is about aligning the design of learning experiences with how the human brain naturally functions.
8 Ways To Create A Brain-Friendly Classroom
How can you create a classroom that works in a way the brain 'likes' to learn?
How The Memory Works In Learning
How The Memory Works In Learning contributed by Dr. Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed. Teachers are the caretakers of the development of students’ highest brain during the years of its most ...
Is The Cognitive Load Theory The Most Important Thing A Teacher Should Know?
If you ask a student to apply problem-solving skills when they are learning new and critical information, you're asking the brain to do two things at once. This limits both ...
What Is The Cognitive Load Theory? A Definition For Teachers
The Cognitive Load Theory is built on the premise that the brain can only do so many things at once and we should be intentional about what we ask it ...
No, Your Brain Isn’t Divided By Creativity And Logic
No, Your Brain Isn't Divided By Creativity And Logic by TeachThought Staff How the human brain works is a topic of considerable chatter, but not much in-depth discussion outside of ...
Why Brain-Based Learning Means Always Connecting Old Knowledge With New
Why Brain-Based Learning Means Always Connecting Old Knowledge With New by Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed., radteach.com Building and retrieving memories takes place in stages through information encoding, storage in patterns of relational memories, ...
How Stress Changes A Student’s Brain: The Neurology Of ‘Pressure’
Stress cuts off students’ access to higher-level networks of higher-order thinking, logic, creative problem solving, and analytical judgment.
6 Targets To Teach The Way The Brain Learns
Teach The Way The Brain Learns by Ramona Persaud When you're standing in front of a classroom of students who're not quite sure they even want to be in your ...
Research-Based? When A Lab Is Not A Classroom
Research-Based? When A Lab Is Not A Classroom by Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed., radteach.com Neuroscience research about the learning brain has guided development of powerful, individualized learning tools. The challenge lies in selecting ...
4 Neurosystems Of Learning
4 Neurosystems Of Learning by Mark Treadwell, marktreadwell.com Understanding how the brain actually learns has been a a scientific challenge for millennia. Based on recent advances in neuroscience and its ...
41 Important Neuroscience Terms For Teachers
Few educators need a deep grasp of neurology, but a working knowledge of some of the more common neuroscience terms for teachers could be useful.
5 Teaching Strategies To Keep Students From Turning Off Their Brains
5 Teaching Strategies To Keep Students From Turning Off Their Brains by Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed., radteach.com Dr. Judy Willis--resident brain investigator at Edutopia and TeachThought--is a neurologist turned educator whose work (much ...
Why All Students Should Write: A Neurological Explanation For Literacy
Why All Students Should Write: A Neurological Explanation by Judy Willis M.D., M.Ed., radteach.com In terms of writing and the brain, there are multiple reasons for embedding writing throughout STEM courses. Writing promotes ...
What A School Designed For Your Brain Might Look Like
by Judy Willis, M.D., M.Ed Have you ever imagined your ideal school? For me, it is one where brain research truly informs learning structures. Walking through such a school, I might ...
How The Brain Works–And How Students Can Respond
In a continued effort to bring you the very best, most expert and diverse education content anywhere, in addition to the ideas of Grant Wiggins, Bena Kallick, Art Costa, and ...
9 Ways Neuroscience Has Changed The Classroom
There is often a big divide between what happens in the laboratory and the way laboratory findings are practically applied. The relationship between neuroscience research and education is no exception. ...
