Brain Based Teaching and
Learning
Jenna Hallman
Based on the work of Ann Anzalone,
Daniel Pink, Renate and Geoffrey Caine
What do you know?
BrainBased
•
http://www.thinkingmaps.com/
Today you will learn
five new ideas about
brain based learning.
Why Brain Based?
- Left brain/Right brain
- Learning styles
• What works for Jordan
12 Core Principles - Renate Nummela
Caine and Geoffrey Caine
1) Every brain is uniquely organized.
Let’s take a test!
Clock Partners
2) The brain is a social brain.
And one more …
3) The search for meaning is innate.
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Time for a Change!
• Find your 6:00 partner.
• Work together to recall the first three core
principles.
• Brainstorm three reasons why this is
important for teachers AND students.
A Safe Brain is a Learning Brain
4) The search for meaning comes through
“patterning”.
5) Emotions are critical to patterning.
• Students must feel emotionally safe and have
a sense of belonging in order to learn. Using
the same routines creates safety.
Helping the Brain to Learn
6) Learning involves both focused
attention and peripheral perception.
• “That’s interesting!”
• Colors, smells, shapes, rhythms
• Dr. Jean Brain Breaks
Right Brain or Left Brain
7) We have at least two ways of organizing
memories: spatial (sensory) and taxon (memorization).
8) The brain simultaneously perceives and creates wholes
(big picture = right) and parts (details = left).
Movement wires the brain!
9) The brain is a complex adaptive system.
10) Learning is developmental.
What we can talk about, we know! Find your 3:00 partner, share
what you learned. Discuss why this information might be
important in the classroom.
Balancing the Brain
11) Learning involves both conscious and
unconscious processes.
• Singing, Music and Laughing
• Brain Dance - created by Creative Dance
Center (CDC) founder Anne Green Gilbert
Finally …
12) Learning is enhanced by challenge and
inhibited by threat. Under stress we go to our
primary brain.
• Partner work: 9:00 partner
- Brain based learning is ______. Brain based
learning is not __________.
OR
- Cross Clap What did you learn?
Random Thoughts
• We comprehend 4x higher than we can read
• Females use 25,000 words per day/ Males use 12,500
• Age + 2 minutes = how often students must share (include
visual options)
• Schedule for Long Term Memory
- 10 minutes after teaching
-1 day after teaching
-1 week after teaching
-1 month after teaching
-3 months after teaching
• The best way to get children thinking is to have them write
every day.
What do you know?
BrainBased
•
http://www.thinkingmaps.com/
Resources
• Ann Anzalone: Learning with Thinking in Mind
http://annanzalone.com/
• Renate and Geoffrey Caine
http://www.mainesupportnetwork.org/handouts
/pdf/Caine's.pdf
• Dr. Jean Music: http://drjean.org/songStore.html
• Pink, D. H. (2006). A whole new mind. New York:
Riverhead Books.
• Thinking Maps: http://www.thinkingmaps.com/
In the end,
all that matters is what you think, because
if you don’t think it,
it can’t exist for you.
• Jenna Hallman
hallmanj@cerra.org