1. Designing Training Plans and Lesson Plans
Brain-Based Teaching / Learning

2. Introduction
“If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn”.

3. Introduction
Background
Motivation

4. Why Brain-Based Teaching? (1)
The early teaching
Learners of “changed brains”
“Brain Lady”
Game changers
Breakthrough in learning

5. Why Brain-Based Teaching?(2)
BBT helps participants:
Increase the desire
Ignite creativity
Make fewer mistakes
Be more flexible
Enhance confidence

6. Brain Dichotomy Left Brain / Right Brain learners
Physical Characteristics
Mental Processing Features
Classroom with brain difference
Resources of the activities
Web-Based activities and products

7. Physical Characteristics
Right shoulder high
1.Left shoulder high
Right smile high
2.Left smile high
Right eye through the telescope
3.Left eye through the telescope
Right foot larger
4.Left foot larger
Right thumb on top on a folded hand
5.Left thumb on top of the folded hands
Writes straight with his/her right hand
6. Writes straight with his/her left hand
Writes hooked with his/her left hand
7. Writes hooked with his/her right hand
Watches a clock
8.Never observes time
Likes neatness and order
9.Is messy

8. Left Brain / Right Brain Mental Processing Features
Linear – Part to whole
1 .Holistic – from whole to parts
Sequential – in sequence
2.Random – do much without priority
Symbolic – deal with letters, words
3.Concrete – to see words in context
Logical - pieces + logical conclusions
4. Intuitive – know right answers by
intuition
Verbal – easily express in words
5.Nonverbal – trouble finding new
words
Reality based – adjust to the environment
6.Fantasy oriented – try to change
reality
Analytical – one step at a time
7.Synthetic – discover relationship
Non temporal – punctual people
8.Temporal – little sense of time
Rational – logic and reason behind a decision
9.Non-rational – search of a better way
of doing things
10. Singular – one thing at a time
10. Simultaneous Processing – two or
more things at the same time.

9. Resources for Different Brain Processors
Speeches
Posters & Broadsides
Memos & Letters
Songs
Newspaper Headlines & Articles
Historical Artifacts
Political Party Platforms
Political Cartoons
Government Decisions
Photographs
Statistical Data
Historical Vignette
Literary Works
Newsreel/Video Clips
Historical Timeline
Maps
Government Documents
Radio/Audio Recordings

10. Activities and Products for Different Brain Processors
Analyze statistical historical data; create graphic representations of historical data
Construct thematic web pages that include various visual images (e.g., posters, political cartoons, broadsides, photos, illustrations)
Create hyperlinked timelines and maps
Design virtual landscapes, analyze computer simulated topographic battlefields, cities, maps, etc.
Write and publish hypertext essays and papers on the Web; critique written resources through an annotated bibliography
Analysis of song lyrics, composition of song lyrics, design and publish online presentations that incorporate music and visual elements
Develop content-focused PowerPoint classroom presentations
Develop multimedia Hyper Studio classroom presentations
Design Web-based, interactive games, puzzles and quizzes; develop or complete cognitive Web Quests
Internet based simulations, cooperative web searches, and role playing activities that incorporate Web resources, classroom presentations

11. Brain Stimulators Music Brain Gym Story Telling Memory Enhancing
Strategies

12. Brain Stimulators Music
Grammar – Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi
Imagination exercises (descriptive writing, speaking) – Ravel, Debussy, Satie
Current situation, News in the World – Rap, Ethnic Music
Making Future Plans – Fun upbeat jazz
Discussing Serious Issues – Beethoven Brahms, Mahler

13. Brain Gym Activities
Brain Buttons
Cross Crawl
Drinking Water
Hook Ups

14. Memory Enhancing Strategies
Storytelling
Humour
Games
Analogy
Metaphor
Movement

15. Conclusion
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared what lie within us” Ralf Emerson