This document provides an overview of brain-based learning and teaching. It discusses 12 principles of brain-based learning, including that the brain is a parallel processor, learning engages the entire physiology, emotions are critical to learning, and the brain organizes memory in different ways. It also provides information on parts of the brain, neurons, memory, and how brain-based research can influence teaching practices. The key goals are to understand how the brain learns best and apply this knowledge to make learning more effective and engaging for students.
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Brain friendly learning is about designing and delivering learning experiences that take the how the learners brain learns into account - to have a stickier and more productive learning experience.
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2. Before We Get Underway
• Caveat - Nothing is an absolute, but
we are learning more and more every
day about how the brain functions
and how that translates to behavior -
including teaching and learning.
• WHAT DO YOU THINK?
– Can your brain grow new cells?
– Does what you eat and drink affect your brain?
– Do colors influence emotion?
– Can knowledge of “brain- based” learning
positively influence learning?
– How are you already using brain based approaches
to learning in your lessons?
3. Why Are You Here?
• What do you want to gain from this
seminar?
• Why?
• What do you already know about
brain based learning?
4. OBJECTIVES
• You may read and review some of the
notes on research of brain-based learning
and teaching.
• You will see a definition of the term “brain
based learning.”
• You will discuss practical implications of
brain based learning.
• You will have some physiological
information on the brain.
5. What is Brain Based Learning?
• Taking what we know about the brain,
about development and about learning
and combining those factors in intelligent
ways to connect and excite students’
desire to learn.
• Combining emotional, factual and skill
knowledge into a cognitive tool.
6. How is your brain like(?)
• A cabbage
• A raisin
• A pillowcase
• A grapefruit
• String cheese
• A walnut
7. Our Brains
• Are like a “jungle”- nothing “runs”
the jungle
• All parts of the brain participate
with each other, while each has
its own function
• There is natural pruning or neural
pruning that occurs when parts are not used (this may
be why sounds not heard or used atrophy over time)
• “LEARNING IS A DELICATE, BUT IS A
POWERFUL DIALOGUE BETWEEN GENETICS
AND THE ENVIRONMENT…” Robert Sylwester, A
Celebration of Neurons
8. Brain’s Complexity
• Cellular level - three pints of liquid, three
pounds of mass, tens of billions of nerve cells
(or neurons), ten times more numerous glial
cells that support, insulate and nourish the
neurons
• Brain cells - 30 thousand neurons (300,000 glial
cells) fit into the space of a pinhead.
9. Parts of the Brain
• Brainstem (survival )
• Cerebellum ( autonomic nervous system)
• Limbic system (emotion)
• Cortex ( reason/logic)
Brainstem
Cerebellum
Cortex
10. • Frontal lobe - Cortex
– Creativity - Judgment - Optimism - Context
– Planning- Problem solving - Pattern making
• Upper temporal lobe - Wernicke’s Area
– Comprehension - Relevancy - Link to past
(experience) - Hearing - Memory - Meaning
• Lower frontal lobe - Cortex
– Speaking/language - Broca’s area
• Occipital lobe - Spatial order
– Visual processing - Patterns - Discovery
• Parietal lobe
– Motor - Primary Sensory Area - Insights - Language
functions
• Cerebellum
– Motor/motion - Novelty learning - cognition - balance
- posture
11. Broca’s
area
Pars
opercularis
Motor cortex Somatosensory cortex
Sensory associative
cortex
Primary
Auditory cortex
Wernicke’s
area
Visual associative
cortex
Visual
cortex
Language and Thought
Grammar
and word
production
Movement and joint positions
Cerebellum
12. Neurons
• Connect to other neurons,
to muscles, or glands
• Send and receive chemical information
(messages) for behaviors
• Can be a millimeter in length or as long as a
meter
• Cells nucleus contains DNA (As long a meter)
13. • Neurons contain tubular extensions that are
designed to communicate quickly with specific
cells in the body network - this is a transportation
system, much like a phone system.
• The brain has both nerve cells and glial cells.
The neurons are cellular agents of cognition; the
glial cells act as a scaffolding or insulation for
impulses. (The insulation increases the speed of
the neural (electrical) messages.)
14. How the Brain Determines
What’s Important
• Emotion and attention are the PRINCIPAL processes
of the brain
– Primary emotions - innate responses
• Assemble life-saving behaviors quickly
– Secondary emotions - also innate reactions
• Enjoyment, pleasure
• Students need to talk about their emotions
– Games, cooperative learning, field trips, interactive
projects, use of humor
• Limit emotional stress
15. The Twelve Principles of Brain
Based Teaching/Learning
• What are they?
• What do they mean?
• What are the implications
of this information to
working with/teaching/
understanding ourselves
and others?
16. Twelve Basic Principles
Related to Learning
1. Brain is a parallel processor
2. Learning engages the entire physiology
3. Learning is developmental
4. Each brain is unique
5. Every brain perceives and creates parts and
wholes simultaneously
6. Learning always involves conscious and
unconscious processes
17. 7. The search for meaning is innate
8. Emotions are critical to learning
9. Learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited
by threat
10. The search for meaning occurs through
patterning
11. We can organize memory in different ways
12. The brain is a social brain
18. The Brain is a Parallel
Processor
• Both hemispheres work together
• Many functions occur simultaneously
• Edelman(1994) found when more neurons
in the brain were firing(working) at the
same time, learning, meaning, and retention
were greater for the learner.
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19. Learning Engages
the Entire Physiology
• Food, water, and nutrition are
critical components of thinking.
• We are “holistic” learners - the
body and mind interact
– the peptides in the blood are
chains of amino acids that become
the primary source of information
transfer.
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20. Learning is Developmental
• Depending upon the topic some
students can think abstractly, while
others have a limited background
and are still thinking on a concrete
level.
• Building the necessary neural
connections by exposure, repetition,
and practice is important to the
student.
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21. Each Brain is Unique
• We are products of genetics and experience
• The brain works better when facts and skills
are embedded in real experiences
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22. Each Brain Perceives and Creates
Parts and Wholes Simultaneously
• Some think more easily inductively while others
find deductive thinking more comfortable - use
both
• Shank (1990) Telling stories is one of the most
influential techniques because you give the
information, ground the meaning in structure,
provide for emotion, and make the content
meaningful. Our brain loves storytelling.
– How might you make use of this?
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23. Learning Involves Conscious
and Unconscious Processes
• The brain and body learn physically, mentally, and
affectively
• Body language as well as actual language
communicate
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• How you treat students and how you
permit them to treat each other makes
a difference in their learning and desire
to learn.
• How the physical environment is
organized makes a difference.
24. The Search for Meaning Is
Innate(from birth)
• Each person seeks(search) to make sense
out of what he/she sees or hears
• Capitalize(To take benefit) on this quality!
– Present ideas, experiences that may NOT
follow what one expects:
• Speculate • Question
• Experiment • Hypothesize
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25. Emotions Are Critical to
Learning
A common form of communication within our brain is
the electrical-chemical-electrical process between
neurons.
Emotions trigger the chemicals active in the axon-
synapse-dendrite reaction. This permits or inhibits
communication between the cells.
90% of the communication is carried out by peptides
(which are strings of amino acids that travel the blood
stream and permit information transfer. Peptides are the
glue that connect the body and the brain.
Learning is affected by emotions.
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (LZW) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
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26. Learning is Enhanced by
Challenge and Inhibited by Threat
• The brain’s priority is always survival - at
the expense of higher order thinking
• Stress should be kept to a manageable level
• Provide opportunities to “grow” and to
make changes
• Have high, but reasonable expectations
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27. The Search for Meaning Comes
Through Patterning
• Tie learning to prior knowledge
• Use Know - Want to know - Learned cycle
• Bain (What the Best College Teachers Do)
suggests working from “big” questions to
be answered.
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28. Brain Organizes Memory In
Different Ways
• Retrieval often depends upon how the information
was stored.
• Relevancy is one key to both storage and retrieval
• Connect to what students know, what they are
interested in
• Provide and get examples
• Student talk!!!
– Of varying types
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29. Memory
• Short-term memory
– TO HELP:
• Combine or “chunk”
• Recognition
• Long-term memory
– Declarative - Factual
– Episodic - Events or experiences
– Semantic - Words
– Procedural - Step by step
30. Memory
• When objects and events are registered by several senses,
they can be stored in several interrelated memory
networks.
• This type of memory becomes more accessible and
powerful.
• Conversation helps us link ideas/thoughts to our own
related memories. Students need time for this to happen!!
– Storytelling - Conversations
– Debates - Role playing
– Simulations - Songs
– Games - Films
31. Techniques to Help Memory
• Define the “gist” - OVERVIEW
• Sequence events
• Plot out pictorially the information
• Tell the information to others in own
words - TALK
– Peer teaching/tutoring
• Amplify by giving examples
• Use multiple parts of the brain (emotional,
factual, physical)
– Auditory, Visual, Kinesthetic, Talk
– Combine
• Use color effectively
– Yellow and orange as attention-getters
32. The Brain is a Social Brain
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• The brain develops better in concert with others
When students have to talk to others about
information, they retain the information longer and
more efficiently!
Make use of small groups,
discussions, teams, pairings,
and question and answer
situations.
33. How Might Brain-Based
Research Influence Your
Teaching?
• What changes might you make?
• What are you already doing that fits the
research?
• What would you like to know more
about?
Editor's Notes
A cabbage - weight, stem
A raisin -convolutions (membrane)
A pillowcase - size - unfolded
A grapefruit - skin, thickness of cortex; high % of water
String cheese - corpus colosum - bundle of axons, fibers
A walnut - two sides, skull covering; lobes