This+Is+Your+Brain+on+Learning+-+Any+Questions?+Connecting+Brain-based+learning+to+pedagogy+and+content

// This Is Your Brain on Learning: Any Questions? Connecting brain-based learning to pedagogy and content //
=== presented Elizabeth Helfant, Senior Collaborator, International speaker and Upper School Tech Integrator at [|Mary Institute Country Day School], St. Louis, MO ===

Ready to convert brain based learning from scholarship to practice? This session will pose questions, foster conversations, and develop strategies and tools for moving forward. Hands-on activities will lead teachers through designing brain compatible curricula. Participants will leave with the foundation of a technology and pedagogy toolkit that supports a brain friendly curriculum. In this workshop we will look at what emerging research says about how our students’ brains function and explore how to design curriculum that maximizes learning for each individual brain. We will work with the TPACK model - technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge, as a guide to designing differentiated learning experiences.

Participants will be able to:
 * Design and workshop a lesson using brain-based learning methods
 * Learn to use the TPACK model to plan and assess lessons
 * Review and evaluate skills/content, pedagogy, and technology in a way that is consistent with what we know about the brain and learning
 * Develop a technology and pedagogy toolkit to support a brain-friendly curriculum