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5 ways teachers can improve student learning based on current brain research

May 24, 2017May 24, 2017 by Martha Burns, Ph.D.

Educators can positively influence students’ learning by understanding how the brain is shaped by their early experiences—and how it can be rewired and reorganized to work more quickly…

Curriculum

Five myths about learning

September 20, 2012September 19, 2012 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

Neuroscience offers an exciting glimpse into how the human brain develops and changes over time. And while theories on the brain and its development abound, brain research can…

Curriculum

Teachers learn ways to keep students’ attention, but are brain claims valid?

July 13, 2012July 12, 2012 by From wire service reports

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District Management

How brain research might affect instruction

June 27, 2011June 26, 2011 by By Laura Devaney, Managing Editor

The 32nd annual International Society for Technology in Education conference kicked off June 26 with a lesson relating brain function to teaching and learning, and attendees explored how…

Research

Can you build a better brain?

January 10, 2011 by Staff and wire services reports

This would be a whole lot easier—this quest for ways to improve our brain—if scientists understood the mechanisms of intelligence even half as well as they do the…

5 ways teachers can improve student learning based on current brain research

Five myths about learning

Teachers learn ways to keep students’ attention, but are brain claims valid?

How brain research might affect instruction

Can you build a better brain?

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