A REFLECTION OF THE SESSIONS I HAD ATTENDED! - UMES SHRESTHA, NEPAL

Learning is dynamic, it doesn’t just go straight up. It’s always up and down.

- Robert Murphy

Meditation class with Marc Helgesen before the conference !

Great warm up for the brain.

UnconferenceLaw of Two Feet

- Graham Jones and Tom Gorham

The brain is constantly predicting, and also simulating. That’s why our brains love stories.

- Curtis Kelly

One of the highlights (innovations) of the FAB 8 Conference. Steve Jugovic, the Body Police,

making us get off our butts.

Even when students look bored, they might be paying attention selectively to an aspect of the task.

- Kevin Maher

Music is hardwired into homosapiens brain. We are all musical and we can use music to enhance learning.

- Amanda Gillis-Furutaka

Book talk on John Hattie’s “Visible Learning for Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning”

- Greg Rouault

Importance of role play in fostering positive learning beliefs in students

- John Maune

Reading Martin Seligman’s book “Flourish”, we can all learn to be PERMAlicious.

- Yu Noel

Reality check - educational games have become a failure.

- Guy Cihi

How are you feeling?Super happy, energetic prodigiously productive!

- Mohamed Ahmed

As a teacher, YOU are responsible for the ‘feeling’ in the classroom.

- Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

How a teacher didn’t give up on a student (Carlos) and years later the student thanked her.

- Curtis Kelly

There are many pseudo-experts on neuro education and they’re trying to sell us “Baby Einstein”.

- Lesley Ito

Neurons that fire together, wire together! Think of a time when you were very very happy :)

- Marc Helgesen

Our brains have one purpose: movement. So incorporate a lot of movement activities and emotions in your class.

- Yoko Morimoto

6 Brain Rules for Teachers. That was my own session.I learnt how to teach “present perfect tense” in a more

brain friendly way.

Don’t expect so low of the students that it eventually becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.

- Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

How do you judge your success in L2? Do you base it in terms of Mastery or in terms of Growth?

- Joesph Shaules

FAB 8 2015, Kyoto, Japanwas simply brilliant.

Thank you everyone !