Teachers are Brain Changers: Reshape Your Classroom from the Brain Up
with Dr Judi Newman
We come to you
If you interested in exploring this opportunity for your team, school, network or sector, contact ACEL to discuss how it can be designed to meet your needs for your specific context. We can travel to you. Costs on application.
The study of the brain has revealed insights into evidence based teaching and learning strategies that help us understand how we think, learn, remember and maximise the engagement and learning experience for students. Explore the brainwise classroom techniques with Dr Judi Newman. There is no one teaching methodology for every context. Learn practical strategies that can be used in the classroom the very next day that are associated with:
- Calming the brain stem for learning readiness
- Establishing trust in the relationship
- Raising curiosity and injecting emotion to grab attention
- Building motivation and confidence levels
- Creating an inviting classrooms to maximise dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin
- Personalise the learning because every brain is different
- Strengthen neural connections to improve thinking
- Using memory techniques and spaced recall
- Reducing cognitive load
- Learning about how to teach about the brain
- Teaching brain wellness
Join us for a three day program over one year, benefiting from a spaced learning and layered learning experience.
Challenges
- There is so much curriculum to fit into allocated lesson time so learning ways for high yield teaching strategies will maximise your energy and effort.
- Some of our young people have some level of trauma impacting on their learning readiness. Explore ways you can reduce stress levels.
- Behaviour management can take up time in the classroom so adopting brainwise practices will reduce the lost time
- Resolve the debate over the ‘right’ teaching methodology and explore several brainwise ways to teach to context.
- Separate the opinion in the popular media from the actual research and debunk neuromyths.
- The teenage brain, the early childhood brain and the adult brain are all very different. Learn why and discover what this means for practice.
Solutions
- Take away practical strategies that you can use the next day
- Use error detection tables and techniques
- Create a learning ready learning space
- Destress the classroom setting
- Discover how to have a conversation with a distressed young person after they have made an error in judgement
- Practice a variety of brain breaks to use when on cognitive overload
- Go beyond the usual ways of differentiating and explore easier individual and group strategies
- Explore a brainwise lesson plan design
- Discover a range of teaching methodologies that align with how the brain operates in addition to explicit teaching
Benefits
- Optional showbag: Set of postcards, book, USB with professional readings, coaching cards
- A toolkit of practical strategies you can use in the classroom to improve learning
- Networking with other educators
- Practice powerful memory techniques