Effectively elevate attentiveness and comprehension in children. In a career encompassing urban and private venues, Brian Pack details how to arouse the brain's reward circuitry to bolster classroom focus and promote inquiry and analysis. Click on one or more of the 28 well-researched chapters - over 300 citations!
Dear Educator,
This website contains the knowledge base and resources needed to create high performing classrooms. From a beginning fraught with discipline issues, I learned how to create productive and joyful classes that kept students attentive and driven to complete tasks. Twenty-eight podcasts and their corresponding texts are available. Inspired after being selected the Department of Education's President Scholar Teacher, I outline steps that validate and empower students as content area facilitators.
I hope you experience the same career fulfillment I received by implementing brain-based techniques that affirm student strengths as thinkers and collaborators. They will come into your classroom with a bounce in their step, excited to learn whatever you have prepared for them.
Best regards,
Brian Pack
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Meaningful experiences in class that touch base with student
patterning along with purposeful and stimulating homework improves prediction
skills and facilitates the dendritic sprouting that enhances retention.
Chapters 1-6-> |
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Students want to be empowered as engaged agents in the classroom, validated as capable thinkers, and relevant amidst their peers. Gaining trust is crucial since it increases oxytocin production and motivates students to perform tasks.
Chapters 7-10-> |
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Students become autonomous, articulate, and
intellectually mature when they collectively govern themselves and pursue tasks
as they see fit. This results in a process of social inquiry.
Chapters 11-20-> |
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While there is rapid neural activity when we engage with the Internet, attention circumvents the natural path of memory processing because of the minimal skill needed to navigate.
Chapters 21-23-> |
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The cerebellum is not just a motor 'control panel' but also a switchboard connecting the reasoning and judgment features of the frontal cortex as well as the emotional midbrain areas and is consequently tied to learning.
Chapters 24-28-> |
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The Workshop is an intense participatory in-service designed to elevate attentiveness and comprehension in the classroom. In a career encompassing urban and private venues, Methods that arouse the brain's reward circuitry to incentivize teachers and students, amplify recall, and foster inquiry and analysis are explored.
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This website contains the knowledge base and resources needed to create high performing classrooms. From a beginning fraught with discipline issues, I learned how to create productive and joyful classes that kept students attentive and driven to complete tasks. Twenty-eight podcasts and their corresponding texts are available. Inspired after being selected the Department of Education's President Scholar Teacher, I outline steps that validate and empower students as content area facilitators.
I hope you experience the same career fulfillment I received by implementing brain-based techniques that affirm student strengths as thinkers and collaborators. They will come into your classroom with a bounce in their step, excited to learn whatever you have prepared for them.
Best regards,
Brian Pack
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"This is an excellent resource for teachers who wish to invigorate the learning experience and make their classrooms an interesting place where students thrive rather than merely endure the class. The special stress on active learning encourages students to take control of their education and promotes a stronger and more rewarding learning dynamic."
Dr. Christopher Chan, Professor of English Studies,
Marquette University
"This
is quite developed. I love the stories of success in the classroom with this
innovative teaching style, followed up with basic or applied science that
justifies the highlighted pedagogy. Very exciting and well-produced. It's
fascinating that good learning goes hand in hand with "pleasure." All the more relevant this notion is for
youth."
Dr. James Topitzes, Associate Professor Social Work,
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
"Very impressive work. Solidly based with research studies yet exceptionally well-written in an easy to read, conversational style. It is an excellent book, thoughtful, thought-provoking."
Dr. Bob Sylwester, Professor Emeritus Educational Psychology, The University of Oregon
"Energy and commitment to this book, the research and scholarly references, as well as the fine quality of the writing style are beyond those of a single or even dual discipline author ......an amazing work across disciplines (science, education, language)."
Dr. Carolyn Stephens, Emeritus Professor English and Literature, Concordia University Wisconsin
"This is very impressive and right on the mark, super informative and intriguing. This presentation and program can go a long, long way in reforming education and bringing schooling into the 21st century."
Michael Koren, Teacher of the Year - National Council Middle School Social Studies
"Very impressive work. Solidly based with research studies yet exceptionally well-written in an easy to read, conversational style. It is an excellent book, thoughtful, thought-provoking."
Dr. Bob Sylwester, Professor Emeritus Educational Psychology, The University of Oregon
"Energy and commitment to this book, the research and scholarly references, as well as the fine quality of the writing style are beyond those of a single or even dual discipline author ......an amazing work across disciplines (science, education, language)."
Dr. Carolyn Stephens, Emeritus Professor English and Literature, Concordia University Wisconsin
"This is very impressive and right on the mark, super informative and intriguing. This presentation and program can go a long, long way in reforming education and bringing schooling into the 21st century."
Michael Koren, Teacher of the Year - National Council Middle School Social Studies
