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Strategies for Maximizing Students' Engagement, Memory, and Potential
August 2-5, 2011, Santa Barbara, CA
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Tuesday, August 2 |
Engaging Students from the Start |
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11:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
Registration |
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
Working lunch: Introductions, overview of workshop, purpose and scope |
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1:00 PM - 2:15 PM |
How does the brain pay attention? |
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2:15 PM - 2:30 PM |
Coffee break |
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
Reaching student attention and sustaining student focus |
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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
Tips for creating neuro-logical lessons and presentations:
Explanation and examples of the end-of-institute group project |
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
Free time |
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5:30 PM - 6:00 PM |
Networking reception |
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6:00 PM - 7:30 PM |
Dinner |
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Wednesday, August 3 |
Part 1: The Impact of Emotions on Learning
Part 2: Memory Creation and Preservation |
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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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9:00 AM - 9:15 AM |
Small group discussion of assigned readings |
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9:15 AM - 10:15 AM |
How the brain's "emotional filter" can block student learning |
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10:15 AM - 10:30 AM |
Coffee break |
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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
Promoting information transport to the reflective brain instead of the reactive brain |
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
Working lunch: Participants discuss ideas for creating final project: neuro-logical lesson or presentation |
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1:00 PM - 2:45 PM |
Short-term memory: Encoding in the brain |
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2:45 PM - 3:00 PM |
Coffee break |
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
Long-term memory: Using advances in neuroplasticity and neurotransmitter research to promote long-term memory |
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4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
Group project collaboration time |
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6:00 PM - 8:00 PM |
Dinner in Santa Barbara. Bus departs Manzanita Loop at 6:00 PM for Louie's. |
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After Dinner |
Evening free in downtown Santa Barbara. Bus returns at 8:30 PM and 10:30 PM |
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Thursday, August 4 |
Part 1: Participation and Mistakes
Part 2: The Prefrontal Cortex and Executive Functions |
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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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9:00 AM - 9:15 AM |
Small group discussion of assigned readings |
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9:00 AM - 10:15 AM |
Only the person who thinks, learns: Increasing student participation and maximizing learning from mistakes |
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10:15 AM - 10:30 AM |
Coffee break |
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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
What are executive functions? How are they impacted by the development of the prefrontal cortex? |
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
Working lunch: Participant groups apply new material to their group projects |
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1:00 PM - 2:45 PM |
Promoting students' executive functions and goal-development |
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2:45 PM - 3:00 PM |
Coffee break |
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3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
Participant presentations and follow-up discussions |
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4:00 PM - 6:00 PM |
Free time |
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6:00 PM - 7:00 PM |
Dinner |
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After Dinner |
Group project collaboration time |
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Friday, August 5 |
Presentations and reflection |
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8:30 AM - 9:00 AM |
Breakfast |
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9:00 AM - 10:15 AM |
Participant presentations and follow-up discussions |
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10:15 AM - 10:30 AM |
Coffee break |
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10:30 AM - 11:30 AM |
Participant presentations and follow-up discussions |
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11:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
Closing: What implementations or changes will you take back about the intersection of neuroscience and education? |
Please note: Schedule is preliminary
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