REFLECTION

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Neuroscience in Teaching and Learning

By Sadaf Murad February 7 , 2014

By the end of my presentation learners will be able to understand:

Significance of Neurosciences in teaching process

Fundamental of brain mechanism to enhance students learning process.

Role of Zone of proximal development (ZPD) and Reticular Activating System(RAS) in learning process.

Ways to incorporate neurosciences principles in class room teaching for effective learning

Objectives

The appropriate knowledge of brain mechanism and neurotransmitters help teachers to be more effective in the process of scholarship.

The knowledge of neuroscience can guide teachers to plan instruction in consonance with the brain sensory input processes which will turn learning into wisdom.

Willis (2010)

Significance of Neurosciences in Teaching

When educators have opportunities to learn and integrate the phenomenon of brain processes like; neural circuits, synapses, and neurotransmitter, they better able to engage students in the process of learning.Willis (2010)

Significance of Neurosciences in Teaching

Our brain is composed with billions of neurons, dendrites, neurotransmitters and neural chemicals.In our brain we have;• Zone of Proximal

Development (ZPD)• Reticular Activating

system (RAS)• Prefrontal zone

(PFC),• Amygdala• Dopamine and other

neurotransmitters

Brain Impact on Learning

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Lower Involuntary

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StressFRIENDLY SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT

By the end of my presentation learners will be able to understand:

Significance of Neurosciences in teaching process

Fundamental of brain mechanism to enhance students learning process.

Role of ZPD and RAS in learning process.

Ways to incorporate neurosciences principles in class room teaching for effective learning

RAS filter the sensory inputs to enter in the brain. It is a virtual editor that grants attention and admission to a small fraction of all available sights , sounds, and tactile sensations available at any movement.

RAS (Reticular Activating System

By the end of my presentation learners will be able to understand:

Significance of Neurosciences in teaching process

Fundamental of brain mechanism to enhance students learning process.

Role of ZPD and RAS in learning process.

Ways to incorporate neurosciences principles in class room teaching for effective learning

• RAS is a receptive to novelty, support, and change that is associated with pleasure, colour or to sensory input that arouses curiosity.

Student who criticised of not paying attention; they may just not have their RAS alerted

Shim, J. (2005)

RAS (Reticular Activating System

How To Use The Neuroscience In Classroom Teaching

Reduce Fear of Mistakes

• Students learn at most when they make mistakes.

• They revisit their previous correct/incorrect information and make

correction.

• When students make mistake and become curious to know the

reason behind their incorrect answer that response go to their RAS

system to PFC and their dopamine level also get rise up and then

that knowledge becomes part of their long-term memory.

• . Hunter (2011).

Use Of Appropriate Tone And Activities To Activate RAS

RAS system can be stimulate by building novelty into new learning information through: Change in voice (high and low tone), Teacher personal appearance and content appearance, Marking key points in color, variation in font size Music, dance, photos, Experiential and reflective learning, Peer feedback, active interaction, discussion, Use of multisensory learning approach. Willis, J. (2010).

Connect With Prior Knowledge

Relate the new knowledge with prior knowledge so that it retain and become part of long-term memory.

Incorporate the previous knowledge via resembling them with personal or real world experiences.

Activities like brain storming, videos, reflection, and class discussion will also help students to thread in the new knowledge with prior information.

Willis, J. (201o).

CONT……

Other ways to use principles of Neuroscience in class

room teaching for effective learning are;

1. Motivation

2. Use humour

3. Graphical ways to organize information

4. Positivity

5. Use of Games

6. Frequent feedback

Willis, J. (201o).

BUT REMEMBEREnvironment need to be safe

for effective learning

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REFERENCES

• Hunter, W. J. (2011). Use Your Head: Neuroscience Research and Teaching. College Quarterly, 14(3).

• Shim, J. (2005). Automatic Knowledge Configuration by Reticular Activating System. In Advances in Natural Computations. Springer: Berlin/Heidelberg. Pages 1170-1178.

• Willis, J. (2010). Nurturing Students’ Brains for the Future. In D. Sousa (Eds.), .Mind, Brain, Education: Implications for Educators.(pp. 259-265). Bloomington, IN : Solution Tree Press, c2010.