Engaging the Brain
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.
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Assertive, Interactive, Engaged in Class
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.
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The Validated and Empowered Child
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.
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Online World Validating Teens
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.
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Movement and Play
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.
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Workshop In-Service
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.
"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
