Brain Based Teaching and Learning

Jenna HallmanBased on the work of Ann Anzalone,

Daniel Pink, Renate and Geoffrey Caine

What do you know?

• http://www.thinkingmaps.com/

Brain- Based

Today you will learnfive new ideas aboutbrain based learning.

Why Brain Based?

- Left brain/Right brain- Learning styles

• What works for Jordan

12 Core Principles - Renate Nummela Caine and Geoffrey Caine

1) Every brain is uniquely organized.

Let’s take a test!

Clock Partners

2) The brain is a social brain.

And one more …

3) The search for meaning is innate.

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• Find your 6:00 partner.• Work together to recall the first three core

principles.• Brainstorm three reasons why this is

important for teachers AND students.

A Safe Brain is a Learning Brain

4) The search for meaning comes through “patterning”.

5) Emotions are critical to patterning.

• Students must feel emotionally safe and have a sense of belonging in order to learn. Using the same routines creates safety.

Helping the Brain to Learn

6) Learning involves both focused attention and peripheral perception.

• “That’s interesting!”• Colors, smells, shapes, rhythms

• Dr. Jean Brain Breaks

Right Brain or Left Brain7) We have at least two ways of organizing memories: spatial (sensory) and taxon (memorization). 8) The brain simultaneously perceives and creates wholes (big picture = right) and parts (details = left).

Movement wires the brain!

What we can talk about, we know! Find your 3:00 partner, share what you learned. Discuss why this information might be important in the classroom.

9) The brain is a complex adaptive system.10) Learning is developmental.

Balancing the Brain11) Learning involves both conscious and

unconscious processes.• Singing, Music and Laughing • Brain Dance - created by

Creative Dance Center (CDC) founder Anne Green Gilbert

Finally …12) Learning is enhanced by challenge and

inhibited by threat. Under stress we go to our primary brain.

• Partner work: 9:00 partner- Brain based learning is ______. Brain based learning is not __________.

OR- Cross Clap What did you learn?

Random Thoughts• We comprehend 4x higher than we can read• Females use 25,000 words per day/ Males use 12,500• Age + 2 minutes = how often students must share (include visual

options)• Schedule for Long Term Memory

- 10 minutes after teaching-1 day after teaching-1 week after teaching-1 month after teaching-3 months after teaching

• The best way to get children thinking is to have them write every day.

What do you know?

• http://www.thinkingmaps.com/

Brain- Based

Resources

• Ann Anzalone: Learning with Thinking in Mindhttp://annanzalone.com/• Renate and Geoffrey Caine

http://www.mainesupportnetwork.org/handouts/pdf/Caine's.pdf

• Dr. Jean Music: http://drjean.org/songStore.html• Pink, D. H. (2006). A whole new mind. New York:

Riverhead Books. • Thinking Maps: http://www.thinkingmaps.com/

In the end,all that matters is what you think, because

if you don’t think it,it can’t exist for you.

• Jenna Hallmanhallmanj@cerra.org