During the summer, I am sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past 10 years. You can see all those collections from the first nine years here.
Here are the ones I’ve published so far:
The 11 Most Popular Classroom Q&A Posts of the Year
School Closures & the Coronavirus Crisis
Best Ways to Begin the School Year
Best Ways to End the School Year
Student Motivation & Social-Emotional Learning
Challenging Normative Gender Culture in Education
Cooperative & Collaborative Learning
Teaching English-Language Learners
Entering the Teaching Profession
Today’s theme is on learning and the brain. You can see the list of posts following this excerpt from one of them:
* Author Interview: ‘How the Brain Learns”
David Sousa, author of the popular book, How the Brain Learns (now in its 5th edition), agreed to answer a few questions about it.
* Using ‘Brain-Based Learning’ in the Classroom
The staff at BrainFacts.org brought together three affiliated neuroscientists to make contributions in this first post of a four-part series.
* Working Smarter, Not Harder, With Neuroscience in the Classroom
Educators Wendi Pillars and Wendy Ostroff offer their experiences in this post.
* Taking Advantage of Neural Networks In the Classroom
David Dockterman, Renate N. Caine, Ph.D., and Kevin D. Washburn, Ed.D., contributetheir responses here.
* Teachers as “Brain Changers”
In this post, I share some of my thoughts, a guest response from well-known author and researcher David A. Sousa, and comments left by readers.