Neuroscience and Classroom Engagement: Strategies for Maximizing Students' Attention, Focus and Potential
July 18-22, 2016, Santa Barbara, CA
Engaging Students from the Start
Working lunch: Introductions, overview of workshop, purpose and scope
Sustaining attention and engagement
Best learning experience
Q&A
Group collaboration / application
The Impact of Emotions on Learning
and Memory
Small group discussion of assigned readings
How the brain's "emotional filter" can block student learning and strategies to build emotional self-control
Promoting transfer of input through the emotional filter
The video game model for mindset, engagement and perseverance
Q&A and application collaborations
Memory, Narratives and Neuroplasticity
Small group discussion of assigned readings
Promoting patterning for memory encoding
Maximizing successful memory links
Narrative power and neuroplasticity
Q&A and small group topic specific collaboration and feedback
Narrative power and neuroplasticity
Q&A and applications collaborations
Building the Environment for the Memory & Cognition
Small group discussion of assigned readings
Durable neural networks of memory
Mistakes, multisensory memory
Q&A and application collaborations
Maximizing Students' Highest Potentials
Small group discussion of assigned readings
Changin needs for executive functions
The developing prefrontal cortex
Executive functions across the curriculum
Future: In Neuroscience and in your goals
Please note: Schedule is preliminary and subject to change
