Zadina Flyer

at last… Janet N. Zadina, Ph.D. An educational neuroscientist who sees her is an experienced high school and community college instructor and research through the eyes of a teacher! reading specialist now engaged in Dr. Z’s lively presentations, peppered with humor, music, and audience neuroscience research. She received her doctorate in the College of participation, engage and empower educators by providing them with a Education at the University of New basic understanding of learning processes in the brain. Through Power Orleans, conducting her award- Point illustrations, a simulation, and interactions, this exciting new winning dissertation research on the neuroanatomy of dyslexia information is presented in an understandable and entertaining style. through collaboration with Tulane Attendees will look inside the brain, acquire a new understanding of University School of Medicine. She the nature of learning, discover principles for instruction based on brain continued her postdoctoral education with a Fellowship in Cognitive research, and acquire strategies for addressing learning differences in Neuroscience in the Department of the classroom. Participants leave Dr. Z’s sessions energized and excited Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane University School of Medicine where about trying these new approaches! she researched neuroanatomical risk factors for developmental “YOU ARE A FIRST! I have been reading the evaluations and language disorders through MRI everyone had great things to say—there were no negatives.” brain scans. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Cognitive College Administrator Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane audiences say they feel… teachers leave ready to… and in Psychology at the University of South Florida engaged in “…fired up to start a new year with new ideas” “…incorporate more strategies that foster neuroscience research. Dr. Zadina is student success” “…inspired to put more excitement into my co-author of Writing Now, a college teaching” “…use more activities to stimulate the brains developmental composition textbook. of my students” She has presented keynotes and “…empowered as an educator as well as a human being” “…bring more diversity to my teaching workshops on brain research and methodology” instruction internationally. “…enlightened, energized” “…reach all my students” “…aware of students’ needs” “…motivate more” “…excited about being part of the educational process” “…change some things about my delivery and practice” “…compassionate toward my ELL learners” “…take my students’ differences into account “…inspired, as if I had a revelation” more often and encourage various learning “…supercharged” styles” To find out how you can bring Dr. Z to your location, contact BR&IN at jzadina@uno.edu

Zadina Flyer

by Letizia Cinganotto on Mar 03, 2010

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