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.
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6 Targets To Teach The Way The Brain Learns
Teaching how the brain learns engages students via tapping into factors that stimulate the brain, grab attention & set the stage for learning.
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8 Strategies To Improve Executive Brain Functions
What are the executive brain functions and what can you do as an educator to support their development in students in your classroom?
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Research-Based? When A Lab Is Not A Classroom
Laboratory neuroscience research cannot be proof of what will happen in a classroom or with any one student.
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41 Important Neuroscience Terms For Teachers
Few educators need a deep grasp of neurology, but a working knowledge of the more common neuroscience terms for teachers could be useful.
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5 Brain-Based Teaching Strategies For Student Engagement
Brain-based teaching strategies include simply predicting and responding, which require the brain to actually engage.
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Why All Students Should Write: A Neurological Explanation For Literacy
Writing promotes the brain’s attentive focus & long-term memory, illuminates patterns, and gives the brain time for reflection.
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Why The Brain Benefits From Reflection In Learning
As sensory input goes into neocortex, it makes memory patterns of the new data and when it sees something similar it can understand.
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The Neurological Explanation For Practice Makes Perfect
Areas important in memory consolidation and retrieval such as the amygdala, hippocampus, and basal ganglion, can be ‘exercised.’
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What A School Designed For Your Brain Might Look Like
What Would A School Designed For Your Brain 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 find: Instead of desks in neat rows and bells moving students at regimented intervals from…
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9 Ways Neuroscience Has Changed The Classroom [Updated]
Cognitive tutoring is still in its infancy, but may be one of the most promising products of the intersection of neuroscience and education.
