Brain Based Teaching and Learning
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Brain Based Teaching and Learning
Jenna HallmanBased on the work of Ann Anzalone,
Daniel Pink, Renate and Geoffrey Caine
What do you know?
• http://www.thinkingmaps.com/
Brain- Based
Today you will learnfive new ideas aboutbrain based learning.
Why Brain Based?
- Left brain/Right brain- Learning styles
• What works for Jordan
12 Core Principles - Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine
1) Every brain is uniquely organized.
Let’s take a test!
Clock Partners
2) The brain is a social brain.
And one more …
3) The search for meaning is innate.
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Time for a Change!
• Find your 6:00 partner.• Work together to recall the first three core
principles.• Brainstorm three reasons why this is
important for teachers AND students.
A Safe Brain is a Learning Brain
4) The search for meaning comes through “patterning”.
5) Emotions are critical to patterning.
• Students must feel emotionally safe and have a sense of belonging in order to learn. Using the same routines creates safety.
Helping the Brain to Learn
6) Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral perception.
• “That’s interesting!”• Colors, smells, shapes, rhythms
• Dr. Jean Brain Breaks
Right Brain or Left Brain7) We have at least two ways of organizing memories: spatial (sensory) and taxon (memorization). 8) The brain simultaneously perceives and creates wholes (big picture = right) and parts (details = left).
Movement wires the brain!
What we can talk about, we know! Find your 3:00 partner, share what you learned. Discuss why this information might be important in the classroom.
9) The brain is a complex adaptive system.10) Learning is developmental.
Balancing the Brain11) Learning involves both conscious and
unconscious processes.• Singing, Music and Laughing • Brain Dance - created by
Creative Dance Center (CDC) founder Anne Green Gilbert
Finally …12) Learning is enhanced by challenge and
inhibited by threat. Under stress we go to our primary brain.
• Partner work: 9:00 partner- Brain based learning is ______. Brain based learning is not __________.
OR- Cross Clap What did you learn?
Random Thoughts• We comprehend 4x higher than we can read• Females use 25,000 words per day/ Males use 12,500• Age + 2 minutes = how often students must share (include visual
options)• Schedule for Long Term Memory
- 10 minutes after teaching-1 day after teaching-1 week after teaching-1 month after teaching-3 months after teaching
• The best way to get children thinking is to have them write every day.
What do you know?
• http://www.thinkingmaps.com/
Brain- Based
Resources
• Ann Anzalone: Learning with Thinking in Mindhttp://annanzalone.com/• Renate and Geoffrey Caine
http://www.mainesupportnetwork.org/handouts/pdf/Caine's.pdf
• Dr. Jean Music: http://drjean.org/songStore.html• Pink, D. H. (2006). A whole new mind. New York:
Riverhead Books. • Thinking Maps: http://www.thinkingmaps.com/
In the end,all that matters is what you think, because
if you don’t think it,it can’t exist for you.
• Jenna [email protected]