Slides for workshop on Making your Classroom Brain Friendly, given at APPI in Coimbra, Portugal, April 2012.

1. Integrating
Brain Based Learning
in the
Primary Classroom
Sarah Phillips
OUP
APPI: April 2012

2. The brain likes …

3. Green and Red Vegetables
with
Lots of Small Fish

4. Goal setting
Goal setting
Rhythm and music
Varied styles of input
Linked learning
Stimulation and challenge
Feedback and reflection

5. Rhythm and Music
Varied styles of input

6. Rhythm and Music
Varied styles of input
bike
doll
puppet
computer

7. Linked learning

8. Linked learning
 6 7
 4 3

9. Linked learning

10. Linked learning

11. •Linked learning

12. Stimulation and challenge
Cognitive challenges
engage the children’s
attention and teach
them useful skills.
They include:
 Sorting
 Sequencing
 Ordering
 Comparing
 Deduction
 ……
…

13. Stimulation and challenge

14. Stimulation and challenge

15. Feedback and reflection

16. Feedback and reflection
Goal setting
Rhythm and music
Varied styles of input
Linked learning
Stimulation and challenge
Feedback and reflection