Module 1060
Brain-based Learning: Helping Students Reach Their Full Potential
Apply this towards your professional development requirements
Tuition: $225 complete
What You'll Learn How can we tap into the vast potential of our students’ brains? By gaining a better understanding of how the brain learns, we can find more effective ways to motivate, engage and meet the needs of all our students. In this module, discover the latest brain-based research and how you can use that knowledge to enhance your classroom instruction. Plus, walk away with specific examples for maximizing the learning potential of your students using brain-based learning strategies. You'll learn:
12 ways to use brain-based learning research in the classroom How to create a learning environment that fosters higher level thinking What parts of the brain contribute to learning and how to tap into them How to use emotion to increase students’ retention of information Keys to overcome the most difficult thing for the brain to do Highlights Keys to overcome the most difficult thing for the brain to do Proven whole-brain strategies to expand your instructional repertoire How to fully immerse students in an ideal educational experience Differentiate instruction using multiple entry points into the content 2 reasons why laughter facilitates learning and how to take advantage of it How to keep challenge high and threat low to maximize learning How the Brain Works: Discover the Latest Brain-Based Research 2 factors that lead to higher level thinking in students Why having a strong relationship with your students is critical to learning Why the average classroom is too dim to maximize learning Understanding the power of a multi-sensory teaching approach How to utilize the primary-recency effect Critical Brain-Based Learning Questions Answered What fosters and inhibits higher level learning Why the first 5-10 and last 5-10 minutes of instruction are the most important What happened to all that left-brain, right-brain stuff How does brain-based learning apply to differentiated instruction Explanation of guided practice and how teachers use it to give ongoing feedback and attention to students Your Instructor Bruce Campbell, Ph.D., has been a classroom teacher for 35 years and his classroom is still an exemplar for differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, and project and brain-based learning. Bruce is the author of numerous books and articles for educators. He serves as an associate professor of education for Antioch University Seattle, an adjunct professor at Seattle Pacific and as a frequent speaker at national education conferences. He has taught teachers in all 50 states as well as in countries all around the world about how to improve instruction and how to spark a love of learning.
The Virtual Teachers Lounge™
Check in with your peers and get answers to your questions – any time, 24/7. Taking this course will give you exclusive access to the thoughts, insights and experience of other educators and K-12 experts discussing your topics and giving you solutions and ideas for whatever is on your mind. In the Teachers' lounge, you can:
Learn new, working strategies and solutions from other educators – live!
Get answers to your toughest questions from top K-12 experts
Discuss course topics with your peers and benefit from their experiences
Share your success stories and best practices to benefit other teachers and administrators
Get new perspectives, fresh ideas and guidance – whenever you need it.
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Materials & Assessment
Lectures
Your lectures, delivered by one of the nation's leading, recognized experts on
this topic, are presented in multiple parts to make listening and tracking your
progress easier. You can listen to each as often as you like by playing it on your
computer, downloading it to your iPod or other MP3 player, even burning it to CD.
Listen wherever it is most convenient for you: at home, in your car; at the park;
and whenever you like: before or after work, at night or on
weekends. Many educators can complete a module in only a week.
Text Resources
Virtual text resources are downloadable and expand on the material covered in your lectures. They may include articles, web links to related materials and web sites, definitions of important terms and concepts, and a bibliography. All materials can be viewed on your computer or downloaded and printed.
Assessment
If you are taking this course for a Certificate of Completion , you do not need to
complete the assessments and need only submit final projects. If you want to
receive 3 Professional Development credits or 90 Professional Development
hours, you must complete all the assessments and final projects.
Virtual Teachers Lounge
To gain Professional Development credits or hours for any of these three modules, you must participate in the Virtual teachers Lounge discussion for that module. If you are not seeking credits or hours, participation in the Lounge is not mandatory, but you are still welcome to connect with and share your thoughts, questions, insights and experience with your peers at any time.
Register Now Brain-based Learning: Helping Students Reach Their Full Potential Tuition: $225