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SO WHAT ? SO WHAT ? WHAT? WHY? HOW?

 How does the brain learn naturally ?  What is the role of emotions in the learning process?  Why do students learn differently?  How does attention impact learning?  How does brain chemicals and neurotransmitters impact learning?  How can we create an environment condusive to optimal learning?  What fosters cognitive skills?  So on and so forth

Recent brain research now gives you powerful and practical success strategies to boost motivation, attention, understanding, meaning, and recall. Eric Jensen

Educators who become aware of recent research on how the brain learns will gain exciting ideas about conditions and environments that can optimize learning. Renate & Geoffrey Caine Reference: Renate Caine& Geoffrey Caine, Understanding a Brain-Based Approach to Learning and Teaching, Educational Leadership, October 1990, p.66

Reference: It’s Mindboggling, The Dana Alliance for the Brain Initiaitives, New York, 2003, p.1 Visualize a place you’d like to be. Maybe it’s lounging on a sunny summer day at the beach. Maybe it’s in your living room, watching a favorite movie. Create the image of that place in your mind, and hold it for a minute.

Listen to the sounds in the room around you. Really listen. What do you hear? Reference: It’s Mindboggling, The Dana Alliance for the Brain Initiaitives, New York, 2003, p.1

Tap your fingers on the board, one tap, one finger at a time,in succession. Then reverse the order of tapping. Then tap each finger twice, in succession; then in reverse. Then three… Reference: It’s Mindboggling, The Dana Alliance for the Brain Initiaitives, New York, 2003, p.1

Starting at 100, count backward by 7s.

Remember some event from your past. The first time you were teaching in class. Put yourself back in that place, and recall everything you can about it. Who was there with you? What were you wearing? What emotions were you feeling? Reference: It’s Mindboggling, The Dana Alliance for the Brain Initiaitives, New York, 2003, p.1

OCCIPITAL LOBE FRONTAL LOBE TEMPORAL LOBE PARIETAL LOBE In performing these tasks, you’ve just activated a good portion of your brain.

 When you look at a color, or hear a sound, or remember something from the past, counting backwards, doing something complicated with the language which parts of your brain come alive with electrical impulses?

 Non-invasive technologies such as the PET/CT Scan and the MRI has enabled researchers to look inside the head and see what the brain is doing.

How to Integrate Brain Research into Teaching As more and more about the brain is discovered, these findings have been translated into educational programs, practices, and policies.

Art and Music is Timeless

Reference: David A. Sousa, “ Mind, Brain, and Education: The Impact of Educational Neuroscience on the Science of Teaching”, LEARNing Landscapes, Vol.5,N0:1, 2011, p.41 Brain research added to our knowledge of how the arts develop the brain.  Research studies are revealing how exposure to the arts can increase one’s attention, spatial skills, and creativity.  Brain research is showing that they are important contributors to the development of cognitive processing. David Sousa

Learning, Arts and The Brain Summit 2009 H ow might studying and practising the arts enhance creativity, cognition and learning?

Art integration … improves learning maintains deeper engagement in subject matter better retention of content greater emotional involvement in the learning process deeper social awareness the ability to apply principles across disciplines Reference: Neuroeducation: Learning, Arts, and the Brain, Dana Press, New York, 2009, p.4 Learning, Arts and The Brain Summit 2009 The Premise

What’s happening? What makes you say so?

Pablo Picasso

What do you see? What do you think about it? What does it make you wonder? Reference: Harvard Project Zero, Artful Thinking, Thinking Routines Karel Appel “I see…, I think…, I wonder”

Create Evaluate Analyze Apply Understand Remember

 If this artwork is the beginning of a story, what might happen next?  If this artwork is the middle of a story, what might have happened before? What might be about to happen?  If this artwork is the end of a story, what might the story be?  -- Use your imagination - Reference: Harvard Project Zero, Artful Thinking, Thinking Routines Fabbio Fabbi

Create Evaluate Analyze Apply Understand Remember

 Musical Creativity and the Brain; Monica Gonzales,Ph.D Charles J. Limb, M.D.Musical Creativity and The Brain Cerebrum, (  Musical Skill and Cognition; John Jonides, Ph.D, University of Michigan (Ref: Learning, Arts, and the Brain,The Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition, Dana Press, New York, 2008, pp )

 1. Listen to a piece of music quietly. Let your ears take in as much as possible.  2. List minimum 5 words or phrases about the music you hear. ( genre, voice, sounds, tempo/beat, feelings etc.)  3. Listen again and try to add more words or phrases to your list. Reference : Project Zero. Artful Thinking, Thinking Routines

Brain research helps teachers to better understand how the brain learns best and how they can use this knowledge to help second language students learn English quickly and efficiently. Teachers should remember that we don't have a "coherent model” of how the brain works, but we do know enough to make significant changes in how we teach. Eric Jensen

Thank You ! Belgin Öğrek, Freelance Educational Consultant, Teacher Trainer