Changing Learners’ Brains Positively: How Comparing Brain-compatible approaches as delivered differently from traditional/conventional classroom instructions. Below is a table that highlights the pedagogy differences in traditional classroom management vs Brain-Based Learning approaches: References: Hobson, J. A. (1994) The Chemistry of Consciousness: How the Brain Changes its Mind. Boston: Little...
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Guys, sports, and parenting series #5 Guys have tremendous power to be an influence for good in their kids’ lives. To help us understand the skills we have, we’re going to talk sports. Penalties happen. False start, illegal procedure, clipping, and all sorts of other calls. Sometimes for us as players the action is too intense to avoid an infraction. Sometimes the refs catch it and sometimes ...
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Guys, sports, and parenting series #4 Guys have tremendous power to be an influence for good in their kids’ lives. To help us understand the skills we have, we’re going to talk sports. Some game situations require that we adopt a different mental attitude and use a different approach. When the team is behind by a touchdown, it’s the fourth quarter, and you get the ball on your own 20 yard line w...
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How Brain-compatible approaches are delivered differently from traditional/conventional classroom instructions – 01 Gaining Learners’ Attention Brain-Based Learning theories/principles attempt to explain how, and under what conditions, learner’s brain takes in, processes and memorizes best as educators or teachers employ different classroom instructions to enable different students master k...
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Guys, sports, and parenting series #3 Guys have tremendous power to be an influence for good in their kids’ lives. We face some challenges however. Sometimes we don’t get involved. Other times we don’t know what we should do. There are times when we don’t want to take heat from mom and avoid getting involved. What we don’t realize is that we are amazingly prepared to help raise kids, and kids...
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Guys, sports, and parenting series #2 Guys have tremendous power to be an influence for good in their kids’ lives. We face some challenges however. Sometimes we don’t get involved. Other times we don’t know what we should do. There are times when we don’t want to take heat from mom and avoid getting involved. What we don’t realize is that we are amazingly prepared to help raise kids, and kids love...
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Guys, sports, and parenting series #1 Guys have tremendous power to be an influence for good in their kids’ lives. We face some challenges however. Sometimes we don’t get involved. Other times we don’t know what we should do. There are times when we don’t want to take heat from mom and avoid getting involved. What we may not realize is that we are amazingly prepared to help raise kids, and ki...
Read More »Imagine this: you are alone in a room with nothing to do. No cell phone, no book to read or TV to watch, no other people to talk to. Just you and your thoughts for 15 minutes. For those of us who spend time around kids all day, that sounds like a dream come true, right? But, how much downtime can our brains tolerate? How long can we endure a seemingly boring environment before we seek out somet...
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