Brain Based Teaching and Learning

1. Brain Based Teaching and Learning Jenna Hallman Based on the work of Ann Anzalone, Daniel Pink, Renate and Geoffrey Caine

2. What do you know? • http://www.thinkingmaps.com/ Today you will learn five new ideas about brain based learning. Brain- Based

3. Why Brain Based? • Left brain/Right brain • Learning styles • What works for Jordan

4. 12 Core Principles - Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine 1) Every brain is uniquely organized. Let’s take a test!

5. Clock Partners 2) The brain is a social brain.

6. And one more … 3) The search for meaning is innate. ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTVWXYZ JOBINJOB VA DERS NINE CUMULUS

7. 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.

8. A Safe Brain is a Learning Brain • The search for meaning comes through “patterning”. • 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.

9. 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

10. Right Brain or Left Brain We have at least two ways of organizing memories: spatial (sensory) and taxon (memorization). The brain simultaneously perceives and creates wholes (big picture = right) and parts (details = left).

11. Movement wires the brain! 9) The brain is a complex adaptive system. 10) Learning is developmental. 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.

12. Balancing the Brain 11) Learning involves both conscious and unconscious processes. • Singing, Music and Laughing • Brain Dance - created by Creative Dance Center (CDC) founder Anne Green Gilbert

13. 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?

14. 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.

15. What do you know? • http://www.thinkingmaps.com/ Brain- Based

16. Resources • Ann Anzalone: Learning with Thinking in Mind http://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/

17. In the end,all that matters is what you think, because if you don’t think it, it can’t exist for you. • Jenna Hallman hallmanj@cerra.org