The document discusses how the brain learns best. It states that the brain shapes itself in response to the outside world through the five senses. It learns best by making connections to concrete experiences and engaging all the senses. The brain also searches for meaning and learns through finding patterns and relationships. Skills are acquired through practice, review, and using physical movement. Emotions also impact learning, so students should feel valued and accepted. Memory decays rapidly so new learning needs to refresh existing memories. Intelligence is multi-dimensional and can be developed through discipline, creativity, respect, and ethics.

1. THE WAY
THE BRAIN
LEARNS BEST
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2. Brain Region

3. Information Process

4. 1. The Brain shapes itself in response to the
outside world.
Five senses generate nerve
impulses that cause brain cells
to connect, forming circuits and
networks.
Therefore: connect academic
material to concrete, sensory
experiences:
Sing, measure, talk, listen, writ
e, build, draw, jump, run.
Engage all the senses to learn
academic material.

6. Brain and Human Development

7. 2. The brain searches for meaning. Many teaching
methods help the brain discover meaning.
• Link lessons with concrete, real
things that engage the senses. Draw
on things students already know, or
create new experiences.
• Ask students to organize material
into patterns that hold meaning:
webs, charts, diagrams, sequences,
cause-effect connections, chunking,
and outlining.
• Engage in projects, problem-solving,
service learning, discovery learning,
and performances.
• Question, make choices, accept
responsibility

10. 3. Rotating the memory helps us acquire skills
and make them automatic
• Practice, review, repeat
• Chunk information
• Rearrange
• Outline
• Summarize
• Use physical movement
• Make things meaning full!

12. 4. Emotions are always with us
• We pay 3 to 5 times more attention to
negative comments than to positive ones.
• The brain that is exposed constantly to
negative feedback develops abnormal
circuits.
• The frightened brain forces out reason.
Therefore: Make your classroom a place
where students feel valued, worthy,
appreciated, and connected with peers who
respect them. “I am accepted, part of the
class, full of potential. I can succeed.”

14. 5. Memory decays rapidly. New experiences
affect existing memories.
• To keep a memory
intact, review and refresh
it.
• Use visual
aids, graphics, songs, rhy
mes, and simulations to
refresh the memory.

15. 6. The brain is a social organ. It demands that we
live together harmoniously and cooperatively. Our
biology demands positive relationships
Teach students to co-
exist harmoniously.
Invite them to
collaborate, listen
deeply to how others
feel, and contribute to
the well-being of
others.

17. 7.
Intelligence
can be
raised or
lowered. It
is not
single, but
multiple. It
is not fixed,
but
malleable,
learnable.

18. New scientific claims
• We all have these
intelligences, they make us
human, cognitively speaking!
• No two people , not even identical
twins, have exactly the same profile
of intelligences.
• We are all unique and
interconnected with everything
around us. The differences in
theories between Newton, Einstein
and Darwin.

19. Three trust/facts
1. Globalization, the easy move of
human beings, money, fashion
and globalize thinking is a fact.
The whole world in coming is
nearby.
2. The biological revolution, like this
knowledge about how brains are
working.
3. The digital revolution, virtual,
fast and virtual realities. Its all to
bee seen on the screen!

20. The five Minds for the Future
1. The disciplined mind
2. The synthesizing mind, system thinking in
school systems
3. The creating mind.
4. The respectful mind
5. Ethical mind

21. The disciplined mind
• Working steady and improving yourself!
Good is the enemy of excellent!
• Develop your own passion, talk in the
school what is relevant, offer students
the change to discover the meaning
behind discipline.
• Going for being an expert in what you
want to be/do, your profession. You
have to work for it, discipline for the
quality you aim for. Even a garbage man
has his quality and can aim for
discipline!

22. The synthesizing of mind
• Every two of three years the information we can
get is doubled, especially which is coming from
the internet.
• Evaluate the information and give it a meaning
full place, make students disciplined to structure
this information.
• The good , bad and meaning full synthesis of all
information. What if students read less books and
don’t understand the meaning of what the
interconnection between information is?
• System thinking in schools, the natural learning
process.

23. • Going beyond the known-thinking outside the box. Creative encourage,
right or wrong. If you can see the whole pathway in front of you, you
are probably going the wrong way!
• Good questions, new questions.
• Creativity on individual- and team level!
• Fostering creativity in the school instead of discipline. That is hard to
believe, but new learning is connected with creativity of students in
discipline to them self!
• The creating mind of a five year old kid is the highest level a human
brain can reach!

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25. The respectful mind
• Diversity as a fact of live. At home , in school
at your work! Don’t judge all the time the
things which are not according to your
mental model!
• Emotional and interpersonal intelligence
• Not just students- teachers- or parents
alone. It is about inter connection/ synthesis
between these all!
• Respect is not only a person you made the
choice for!

26. The ethical mind
• What will/can I add to develop others.
• What does it mean to be partner in the
community I am living in?
• Teach students how they can add something to
the society we are all living in. Enlarge their
time and place horizon.
• Make learning sustainable and train people for
the tomorrow job! Awareness of that is for all
teachers very important
• The ethical person is worried about his or her
responsibilities.
• The role of formal and informal learning in
developing these five minds for the future!