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At Teach To The Brain LLC we provide the professional development, teaching strategies and related resources that can easily be put to use to create and maintain a brain responsive learning environment. We show you how to incorporate the 12 Essential Brain Responsive Elements™ which are the foundation for success and learning. We also provide 1,001 teaching strategies and more, that will collectively impact the effectiveness of the learning experience and consequently enhance the overall skills and talents of the individuals you serve.
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Brain Academe's Master Class with Mary Appleget!
Brain responsive learning is a research based, multidisciplinary approach to the question of how our brain learns and responds best. It's grounded in neuroscience and ask the question: How does our brain learn effectively? We must investigate and implement the best, most effective strategies to use with individuals we teach, parent, coach and lead. Integrating insights from a variety of sciences including: anatomy, biochemistry, genetics, immunology, physiology, neurology, psychology, and pharmacology, we must take into consideration the sum of these disciplines while providing the most comprehensive and accurate framework of the conditions under which the brain learns best.
Week 1 Preview: The Physiology, Primary and Secondary Needs of the Brain
Week 2 Preview: The Empowerment Model, Motivation and Engagement
Week 3 Preview: Twelve Essential Elements of The Brain Responsive Approach™
Week 4 Preview: Success Principles for Teaching, Parenting, Coaching, Leading and Learning
Week 5 Preview: Brain Responsive Strategies for Teachers, Parents, Coaches, Leaders & Learners
Week 6 Action Research: D | A | R | P Direction - Approach - Reflection - Progress
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Hello! I'm Mary Appleget, teacher, parent, coach and leader. I'm intrigued with learning and how the process makes us better and more productive. I'm fascinated with the brain's ability to adapt and cope with life's stressors. I've spent my career working with learners of all kind and now hope to share my knowledge with you and your team. Join the Brain Academe's membership site and receive the following in return...
Empowerment
The process of becoming stronger and more confident, especially in controlling one's life and claiming one's rights.
Best Practice
Professional procedures that are accepted or prescribed as being correct or most effective.
Support
Assistance with, especially educationally; enable to function or act.
Strategy
Plans of action or policy designed to achieve a major or overall aim.
Resources
Stock or supply of materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively.
Leadership
The action of leading a group of people or an organization.
useful Facts about Learning & the Brain with Mary Appleget!
The instructional challenges facing teachers, parents, coaches and leaders today are complex to say the least. There is no ‘one-size fits all’ remedy. However, at Teach To The Brain LLC we contend that the most common issue relevant to all and to all learning environments is the brain itself. Recent brain research has cast new light on the brain and how it learns. Many of the teaching strategies and methods that exist today are aligned with these new findings. Others will simply require instructors to adapt and modify skills they already use in small but powerful ways.
While the objectives and standards of what to teach are usually set in place, the execution and assessment of those standards can be creatively orchestrated and implemented by the artist we all know as the “teacher.” Why? Because we lose students when we don’t!
What does current brain research tell us?
Each brain that is born healthy will follow a certain schedule of developmental growth and change. It is essential that teachers, parents, coaches and leaders recognize and adjust for differences and challenges they see as learners move through phases of development.
The brain is designed to work in short bursts of high energy output followed by brief periods of rest and reflection; as opposed to a constant state of attention. Hormones, diet and emotions impact attention, memory and learning. It is essential to recognize these variations when planning and providing ‘optimal learning’ experiences for the students.
Students develop an acute sense of how others around them treat them individually. When students become secure in their perception of safety and dignity coming from leaders in charge, the brain becomes more responsive to the lessons at hand.
It is possible to utilize one’s conscious thoughts to focus on positive emotions such as love, inspiration and motivation, which in turn enhances learning and memory. The emotional state of the learner is crucial to the brain’s ability to retain and apply the desired information. We must teach students to control and guide their own thoughts and actions.
We gain meaning three ways; through patterns, emotions, and relevance. The brain processes patterns, emotions and perceived relevance as it seeks to assign meaning to new content. The brain is less effective at retaining isolated facts and learns more effectively when new content is delivered with more dynamics than lecture/note taking.
The brain is rarely overstimulated. It perceives parts and wholes simultaneously. It thrives on music, role play, dance, and the arts, as these activities provide an emotional backdrop or framework to the learning content and objectives being mastered.
Memory is the recreation of a particular neuro-chemical pathway which allows the ‘user’ to “remember” or to “recall” events and scenarios which took place previously. When new information is connected to powerful emotion and memorable enrichment then learning and memory improve.
The body’s physiological states impact the electro-chemical responses of the brain and consequently have the potential to enhance or hinder learning significantly. When learning bodies remain still and quiet for more than 15-20 minutes, they begin to seek opportunities to get up and move. It is beneficial to the instructor and the class when movement is built into the planned lesson and is utilized not only to break up the routine but to provide opportunity for the learners to make their own mindbody connections to the new information.
The brain is unique due to the individual environment in which it grows and develops. The brain has also proven to be highly adaptive; the wide variety of human experience and cultural history serving as evidence. As a learner, the brain is drawn toward novelty and problem-solving opportunities. Single answer, one way learning and testing simply fails to stimulate or motivate desire in the learner in skills and knowledge it takes to activate the life-long learning process.
Like to read and would prefer a resource such as an ebook? Look no further! Free ebooks!
Brain Responsive Teaching and Learning
A Blueprint for Creating Desire and Success in the Learning Environment!
Empowerment Mindset for Super Learners
Learner Characteristics and Champion Attributes is Key to Success
All Level Brain Ebook The Guide to the Genius Inside!
Brain Responsive Strategies for The Genius Inside
Brain Responsive
The goal is to learn from those that are brain-minded and heart-minded; that means to learn from those who demonstrate thought provoking teachings and stimulate innovative and creative instruction. Professionals in their field courageously taught and shared their genius with you, speaking these ideas and words. Do the same. Feed it forward to those who don’t know...
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