How Understanding the Brain Informs Teaching and Enhances Learning
Abstract
Abstract:
Teachers encounter children in the classroom with diverse challenges that arise from a spectrum of neurological dysfunctions. Despite ‘Brain Based Learning’ becoming a part of the common vernacular, teacher education programs are left to face the challenge of preparing teachers to understand, recognize and address these needs. Biological adaptation of various Neuronal networks within various specialized Cortical and subcortical cerebral regions will be explored, and applied to specific classroom strategies.
Outcomes.
Participants will:
- Recognize areas of the brain and their functions
- Match specific tasks to areas of the brain
- Differentiate between specific and integrated brain function
- Create a lesson plan applying theories of brain based learning
Location
Room 2002
Recommended Citation
Cameron, Mary and Cameron, Donald I. MD, "How Understanding the Brain Informs Teaching and Enhances Learning" (2015). SoTL Commons Conference. 138.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2015/138
How Understanding the Brain Informs Teaching and Enhances Learning
Room 2002
Abstract:
Teachers encounter children in the classroom with diverse challenges that arise from a spectrum of neurological dysfunctions. Despite ‘Brain Based Learning’ becoming a part of the common vernacular, teacher education programs are left to face the challenge of preparing teachers to understand, recognize and address these needs. Biological adaptation of various Neuronal networks within various specialized Cortical and subcortical cerebral regions will be explored, and applied to specific classroom strategies.
Outcomes.
Participants will:
- Recognize areas of the brain and their functions
- Match specific tasks to areas of the brain
- Differentiate between specific and integrated brain function
- Create a lesson plan applying theories of brain based learning
