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Strategies for Maximizing Students' Engagement, Memory, and Potential
July 24-27, 2012/July 31-August 3, 2012, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Tuesday, July 24/July 31 | Engaging Students from the Start |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Registration |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Working lunch: Introductions, overview of workshop, purpose and scope |
| 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM | How does the brain pay attention? |
| 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM | Coffee break |
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM | Reaching student attention and sustaining student focus |
| 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
Tips for creating neuro-logical lessons and presentations: Explanation and examples of the end-of-institute group project |
| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Free time |
| 5:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Networking reception |
| 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Dinner |
| Wednesday, July 25/Aug. 1 |
Part 1: The Impact of Emotions on Learning Part 2: Memory Creation and Preservation |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Small group discussion of assigned readings |
| 9:15 AM - 10:15 AM | How the brain's "emotional filter" can block student learning |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee break |
| 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Promoting information transport to the reflective brain instead of the reactive brain |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Working lunch: Participants discuss ideas for creating final project: neuro-logical lesson or presentation |
| 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Short-term memory: Encoding in the brain |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Coffee break |
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Long-term memory: Using advances in neuroplasticity and neurotransmitter research to promote long-term memory |
| 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Group project collaboration time |
| 5:30 PM | Bus departs from Manzanita Loop at 5:30 PM for dinner in Downtown Santa Barbara. Opal on 7/25 and Louie's on 8/1. |
| 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM | Dinner in Santa Barbara. |
| After Dinner | Evening free in downtown Santa Barbara. Bus departs from restaurant back to campus housing at 8:00 PM and 10:30 PM. |
| Thursday, July 26/Aug. 2 |
Part 1: Participation and Mistakes Part 2: The Prefrontal Cortex and Executive Functions |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Small group discussion of assigned readings |
| 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Only the person who thinks, learns: Increasing student participation and maximizing learning from mistakes |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee break |
| 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | What are executive functions? How are they impacted by the development of the prefrontal cortex? |
| 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Working lunch: Participant groups apply new material to their group projects |
| 1:00 PM - 2:45 PM | Promoting students' executive functions and goal-development |
| 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM | Coffee break |
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Participant presentations and follow-up discussions |
| 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Free time |
| 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | Dinner at Goleta Beach, Lot D. |
| Friday, July 27/Aug. 3 | Presentations and reflection |
| 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM | Breakfast |
| 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM | Participant presentations and follow-up discussions |
| 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM | Coffee break |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM | Participant presentations and follow-up discussions |
| 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Closing: What implementations or changes will you take back about the intersection of neuroscience and education? |
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Please note: Schedule is preliminary |
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