schedule

 
 
Neuroscience and Classroom Engagement: Strategies for Maximizing Students' Attention, Focus and Potential
July 21-25, 2014, Santa Barbara, CA
Monday, July 21 Engaging Students from the Start
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM Registration
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Working lunch: Introductions, overview of workshop, purpose and scope
1:00 PM - 2:20 PM How does the brain pay attention?
2:20 PM - 2:30 PM Coffee break
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Sustaining attention and engarement
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Best learning experience    

                                                                     Group collaboration about application of attention strategies

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Networking reception
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Dinner
Tuesday, July 22 The Impact of Emotions on Learning
and Memory 
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Small group discussion of assigned readings
8:45 AM - 9:50 AM How the brain's "emotional filter" can block student learning and strategies to build emotional self-control
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM Coffee break
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Promoting transfet of input through the emotional filter

The video game model for mindset, engagement and perserverance

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Q&A and application collaborations
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
Wednesday, July 23 Memory, Narratives and Neuroplasticity
8:00 AM - 8:30 PM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM

Small group discussion of assigned readings                               

8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

Promoting patterning for memory encoding

Maximizing successful memory links

10:15 AM - 10:25 AM Coffee break
10:25 AM - 11:45 AM
Narrative power and neuroplasticity
 
Q&A and small group topic specific collaboration and feedback
11:45 AM - 12:10 PM Q & A and applications collaborations
12:10 PM - 12:45 PM Lunch
Thursday, July 24 Building the Environment for the Memory & Cognition
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Small group discussion of assigned readings
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM Durable neural networks of memory
10:15 AM - 10:25 AM Coffee break
10:25 AM - 12:00 PM
Maximizing understanding: concepts and transfer
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Q&A and application collaborations
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM Lunch
Friday, July 25 Maximizing Students' Highest Potentials
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Breakfast
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM Small group discussion of assigned readings
8:45 AM - 10:00 AM

The developing prefrontal cortex

Cognitive flexibility

9:50 AM - 10:15 AM Evaluation forms
10:05 AM - 10:15 AM Coffee break
10:15 AM - 11:45 AM Executive functions across the curriculum
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM Future: In Neuroscience and in your goals

Please note: Schedule is preliminary and subject to change