Course Objectives

Instruction is focused on providing participants with information and practice that will lead to greater awareness of the factors that affect learning and how to maximize positive teaching tools in the classroom.

The successful practitioner of Learning, Memory and the Brain will:

• Identify the importance of both explicit and indirect teaching activities and when it is appropriate to use each.
• Understand how the brain takes in information, how it processes the information and how it retrieves information from storage.
• Develop a repertoire for helping students store information at a greater rate.
• Explore ways to help students become independent learners.
• Create lessons that activate prior learning.
• Identify ways to help students become independent learners.
• Have a clearer understanding of the retrieval systems of the brain and their importance to student success.