Brain-based learning is an educational approach based on neuroscience research showing how the brain naturally learns. It recognizes that the brain perceives whole and parts simultaneously, is a parallel processor, stores information in multiple areas that can be retrieved through multiple pathways, and learns best when engaging the whole body. Core principles of brain-based learning include that humans innately search for meaning through patterning, emotions drive attention and memory, meaning is more important than mere information, focused attention and peripheral perception enhance learning, and the brain has both spatial and rote memory systems. The brain also learns socially and through challenge rather than stress, is uniquely organized in each person, and learning is a developmental process.

1. By: Janeth D. Sarnillo

2. Brain-Based Learning
 Paul McClean used the concept of triune
brain to refer to the evolution of the human
three part brain. According to triune
theory, survival leaving is in the lower
brain, emotions were in the mid-brain, and
higher order thinking took place in the
upper brain. However, the current brain
theory embraces the whole systems,
complex brain model.

3. It is an approach to teaching based
on research in neuroscience. It
suggests that our brain learns
naturally.
Brain-Based Learning

4. Core Principles Guiding Brain-
Based Education
The brain perceives whole and parts
simultaneously.
The brain is a parallel processor which
can perform activities at once.
Information is stored in multiple areas
of the brain and is retrieved through
multiple memory and neutral path
ways.

5. Learning engages the whole body. All
learning is mind- body: movement,
food, attention cycles, chemicals
modulate learning.
Humans’ search for meaning is innate.
Search for meaning comes from
patterning.
Core Principles Guiding Brain-
Based Education

6. Emotions are critical to patterning and
drive our attention, meaning and
memory.
Meaning is more important than
information.
Learning involves focused attention
and peripheral perception.
Core Principles Guiding Brain-
Based Education

7.  We have two types of memory: spatial and
rote.
 The brain is social. It develops better in
concert with other brains.
 Complex learning is enhanced by challenge
and inhibited by stress.
 Every brain is uniquely organized.
 Learning is developmental.
Core Principles Guiding Brain-
Based Education