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Gary Anaka - Brain-based Learning Facilitator
Workshop: Engaging the Student Brain (K-12)
Learning is all about
engagement.
If you want to help students in today's world then you need
to begin with their brain. The purpose of engagement is to
reduce boredom, increase understanding, promote learning,
boost motivation and increase self-control. Lessons that
are engaging means opportunities for movement, social
interaction and creativity which will keep students on task
and reduce inappropriate behaviours. Teachers need an
extensive tool box full of user friendly, fun engaging
strategies that appeal to a wide ability of learners. These
strategies take no time tp prepare and can be used at a
moment's notice.
Are you aware that:
- Brain states are the key to learning
- Reading and managing brain states is the teacher's number one job
- Movement profoundly impacts student success
- Continual engagement means continual involvement
- The better the states, the better the results
- There is a need to stop telling kids what to do. Teach them how to do it
This professional development workshop models relevant and practical instructional strategies to meet the challenges of today's mixed ability classrooms.
Good teaching drives student achievement.