IBBiology @Skyline High School

                                                                                                                                                                     

 

Brain Based Teaching Professional Development

Meeting 1:  Justification and Brain Structure (August 2009)

Introduction to the Books (links)

       

 

Accessing the book on-line

Introduction PowerPoint

Introduction reading questions (doc)

Your amazing brain pamphlet  (doc)

Sheep brain dissection guide  (doc)

Brain regions tabbed book  (doc)

Brain structures PowerPoint

Follow up email message (doc)

Meeting 2:  Physiology of Learning (September 2009)

Walking review questions (doc)

Learning and Neural Connections PowerPoint

The brain and learning flip tabs (doc)

Follow up email message (doc)

Meeting 3:  The Teenage Brain (October 2009)

Preparing the Brain for School; chapter 2 questions (doc)

How well do you know the teenage brain quiz  (doc)

How well do you know the teenage brain quiz answers (doc)

Teenage Brain PowerPoint

Follow up email message (doc)

Meeting 4:  Engagement and attention (November 2009)

Reading guide questions (doc)

Engagement and attention PowerPoint

Follow up email message (doc)

Meeting 5:  Input Quantity and Repetition (February 2010)

Input quantity PowerPoint

Box opening analogy:  box 1, box 2, box 3, box 4, box 5, box 6 (doc)

Meeting 6:  Coherence (April 2010)

Coherence PowerPoint

Meeting 7:  Timing (May 2010)

Timing PowerPoint

Meeting 8:  Review (September 2010)

Review PowerPoint

Review handout (doc)

Meeting 9:  Error Correction (October 2010)

PowerPoint presentation

Group Readings (doc)

Meeting 10:  Movement (May 2011)

Movement PowerPoint

Strategies for movement (doc)

Meeting 11:  Emotional States (October 2011)

Emotional States PowerPoint presentation (pdf)

Big ideas recalled from previous meetings (pdf)

Strategies used at SHS to Positively Influence States (pdf)

Additional information about rituals and how school culture influences states (pdf)

A resource for energizers

Meeting 11:  More On Emotional States (November 2011)

More on Emotional States PowerPoint presentation (pdf)

What's to come:

Stress and the Brain

Unconscious processing

The social brain

Rewards and choice

Memory

Motivation

The physical environment

Multiple intelligences

Theory of mind

Mindsets

Intelligence is fragile

 

           

 

"When we tug at a simple thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world."  John Muir