What teacher would not relish having a pocketful of superpowers ready to optimize ways for students' brains to take in, process, and store information? One such valuable resource in this quest is educational neuroscience, which Bruer (2016) defines as "… a relatively new and highly
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This blog is Part 4 of the 4-part series on Promising Principles to Enhance Learning. Part 1: Seven Promising Principles to Enhance Learning in Your School or Classroom Part 2: Four Ingredients that Motivate our Learners to Engage Part 3: Ways to Enhance Remembering: The Role of Retrieval
Part 3 of the 4-part series on Promising Principles to Enhance Learning. Part 1: Seven Promising Principles to Enhance Learning in Your School or Classroom Part 2: Four Ingredients that Motivate our Learners to Engage Whether you teach physics or physical education, mathematics or music, calculus or kindergarten, we want our students to do more
Part 2 of the 4-part series on Promising Principles to Enhance Learning. Review part 1: Seven Promising Principles to Enhance Learning in Your School or Classroom Let’s start with a challenge. Once upon a time a local merchant went to a market and purchased a wolf, a goat, and a several heads of cabbage.
Contributed by Pamela Nevills Connecting the Common Core learning to neuroscience is a no-brainer! There are many well-established truths from neuroscience that help teachers become better directors of learning. Teachers understand how working memory and long-term memory affect student learning. They can use information about neuroplasticity to