Brain Based Teaching

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Comment by Donna Wilson on November 4, 2011 at 9:16am

Marcus Conyers and I just got back from BrainSMART presentations in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE. There we met more excellent teachers and administrators interested in brain-based teaching and learning! Today it is my pleasure to be meeting up with the wonderful Diane Dahl at NAEYC! Excited:) There we will be sharing information about the brain based teaching programs at NSU. 

Comment by Donna Wilson on September 25, 2011 at 9:05pm

This past week we were pleased to be at The Aspen Institute attending a conference sponsored by The New York Academy of Sciences and the The Aspen Brain Forum Foundation. The purpose of the conference was to discuss current scientific research and implications for education. Our first day started with a lovely hike along the riverside and through the aspens. The weather was sunny and brisk...perfect fall days for this two day conference! We were delighted to meet up with a graduate and a current student from our NSU/BrainSMART programs! When we arrive in our office Tuesday we have lots to do to highlight this exciting new research that supports our programs in teacher education and graduate studies! For example, Marcus and I heard Daphne Bavelier - University of Geneva speak of her research on learning and action video game play, Silvia Bunge - University of California Berkeley present on reasoning training and brain connectivity, and Clancy Blair - New York University discussing executive function and school readiness. We lunched with John Mighton and enjoyed hearing of his research about nurturing math with every child. There is far to much to write about in one posting. Over the course of time, I'll be sharing more here as well as on my blog.

Comment by Diane Dahl on August 14, 2011 at 1:50pm

New blog post about using brain-based strategies in a micro-managed school: New Post

Comment by Diane Dahl on July 8, 2011 at 11:18am

Yes, I will be tweeting there for sure.  Btw, I love your new blog!  If anyone wants to check it out, her blog is at http://www.donnawilsonphd.blogspot.com Thanks for all you do!

Comment by Donna Wilson on July 8, 2011 at 10:55am

Thanks, Diane! Yes, indeed it is an exciting time in the field of brain-based education!!!!! I also look forward to seeing you at NSU's Global Leadership Conference at Disney World later in July! It will be exciting and hope you will be tweeting your experiences there:)

Comment by Diane Dahl on July 8, 2011 at 10:52am

How exciting to see you here! (Donna Wilson is one of the creators of the BrainSMART program!)  I'll be looking forward to reading your tweets from Boston.

Comment by Donna Wilson on July 8, 2011 at 10:49am

 

 

Diane and All, Delighted to see your group on brain based teaching and look forward to connecting here! We will be sharing information about what effective teachers are doing through the use of some exciting brain based methods in Boston next week. The conference is at the International Association of Cognitive Education and Psychology. Marianne Wolf will also be presenting there about the brain and reading. I'll be posting and tweeting live from the event! 

Comment by Diane Dahl on May 30, 2011 at 11:48am

New blog post: An answer for some struggling readers, The reticular activating system

Comment by Russell Ogden on April 2, 2011 at 2:07am

Born to Learn is the first animation in a fascinating series aimed to provide easy-access to the exciting new discoveries constantly being made about how humans learn! Narrated by Damian Lewis

Comment by Angie Rumsey on March 23, 2011 at 1:56pm

I like your rubric.  My partner teacher and I tell the kids that they need to have the word "because" in their thinking stem.  This helps them "explain" their thinking.

 

I'm so glad you're finding success with the stem!  My partner teacher came up with the idea and formulated to what we use now.

 

I also like your summary rubric as well.  I find even in Third grade they struggle with summaries.  They either give too much info or not enough.  Sometimes they focus on elements that are not really that important or they assume you know something.

 

Blessings.

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