Benefits of Teach to the Brain and the Heart Will Follow™Personal and Professional Learning Series
I. Self -Directed, Self-Reliant Doers and Dreamers: Self-directed, self-reliant individuals who take on the learning process as a challenge are needed in this day and age. The learning series shows how to embed key brain responsive strategies and tactics into your instruction that will transform learners into doers and dreamers who are success conscious. These key strategies influence proactive as opposed to reactive behavior in social, intellectual and emotional situations.
II. Individuals Who Master Life Skills: Teach to the Brain and the Heart Will FollowTM Personal and Professional Learning Series is designed to help learners master life skills such as integrity, initiative, perseverance, responsibility, cooperation, confidence and more…in other words… ‘thrive.’ It engages emotion, cognition and reflection as a means to grow with a community of like-minded individuals. Individuals naturally master these skills as they practice them day to day.
III. Increased Academic and Social Achievement: Brain Responsive strategies and tactics are designed to work with the brain’s natural learning process. If strategies such as choice and adequate time are in place as well as strong cooperative learning and feed forward communication, the brain will naturally grow in curiosity and engagement when in the learning setting. Increased academic and social achievement occurs.
IV. Decreased Behavior Problems and Apathy: Teaching to how one learns creates conditions where that individual can act on their own behalf. This is empowerment. Empowerment enhances effort. Effort (a very positive behavior) interrupts negative behavior patterns. All learning and nurturing environments need these conditions where learners can act on their own behalf .
A full year of daily, weekly and monthly learning and training strategies highlighting twelve essential brain responsive elements.
Twelve Essential Brain Responsive Elements
•Presence of Safety
•Thinking Is Becoming
•Meaning, Patterns and Connections
•Choices
•Adequate Time
•Movement to Enhance Learning
•Enriched Environments
•Collaborative – Cooperative Teamwork
•Feed Forward Communication
•Mastery
•Professional and Personal Growth
Resource for Life Long Learners
This book shows you how to take the teaching and parenting skills you possess, along with the knowledge you already have and transform them into brain responsive strategies for the classroom and household. In order to see and experience extra desire, motivation and inspiration in the learners you work with and/or live with you don’t need to take on extra college credit or professional development workshops. You just need to focus your time and energy into developing the classroom and household you already have into a brain responsive environment. You can use these strategies and benefit from them while you’re teaching, planning, parenting and living your life as usual!
Assuming you are here to help kids, love what you are doing, get a kick out of helping individual spirits grow and love learning about ‘your’ topic-the brain, this All Level BRAIN E-book is for you! This book is full of strategies, ideas and tools for helping you turn a normal classroom and/or household into a pulsating, electric, brain lab full of motivated doers and dreamers.
The All Level Brain eBooklet can be thought of as – ‘A Guide to the Genius Inside’ as it will help you set up a learning environment that deems necessary to put in motion fast, effective learning and achievement for all. Keep this with you as you plan, implement and assess the lessons you teach with the individual students in your classroom. This booklet will help you create a setting that is brain friendly and responsive thus helping gain achievement and success for all.