3. To try to incorporate strategies which
support Brain Based Learning in our EY’s
classrooms so as to provide a better learning
experience to our students.
4. Our objectives
To meet the needs of our diverse learners.
To have each child reach his full potential.
To become a school where students are happy and
parents satisfied.
7. The challenges we faced:
To find out more about Brain Based strategies.
To train our teachers.
To make sure everyone understood this concept.
To embed these strategies in our daily routine.
To ensure availability of resources.
8.
9. A safe and caring environment - inviting the
family to the classroom.
10. Putting up students’ work and changing boards
frequently to add novelty in the classroom.
11. When the brain senses danger the body reacts
with fight or flight.
We decided to start with improving our circle time
activities:
We worked on our lesson plans and took up the
following areas:
bullying
caring and sharing
friendship
28. Learning outcomes.
Better more meaningful teaching strategies were being
used.
Students were seen engaged in deeper learning.
Parental feedback was very encouraging.
There is less resistance now and teachers are
understanding now that BBL is all about the strategies
we normally use.
The key word here is being consistent in using them if
we want to embed these practices.
Editor's Notes
Brain science means the way the brain works
The brain starts to work with the physical environment, it moves to emotional survival and only then starts the thinking process. So our priority was first creating a safe and caring environment.
Activities that involve emotion trigger the release of chemicals in the brain that strengthens memory. We had counseling sessions with the teachers and used role plays to put this point across.
When we receive a compliment the brain releases serotonin which makes us feel good and the incident stays on in our mind.
Simply by opening our mouth we send oxygen to the brain and facilitate cognitive growth
We decided to incorporate brain storming as a beginning activity more frequently in our lessons.
Encourage students to think of ways to cheer one another up when their classmates answer correctly/ have done something great in learning.
Students learn when their experiences are linked to their own contexts so we tried to incorporate meaningful activities.
Movement can stimulate the release of chemicals which wake up learners and help them feel good, maximize energy levels and improve the storage of information and retrieval.
We guided teachers to use music to teach concepts. Stories which have rhyme and rhythm such as Billy Goats Gruff and Ginger Bread man were purposefully read to reinforce concepts. Teachers were encouraged to sing rhymes as transition activities.
