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Q&A Collections: Brain-Based Learning

By Larry Ferlazzo — August 05, 2017 1 min read
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I’ll begin posting new questions and answers in early September, and during the summer will be sharing thematic posts bringing together responses on similar topics from the past six years. You can see all those collections from the first five years here.

Here are the ones I’ve posted so far:

This Year’s Most Popular Q&A Posts

Classroom Management Advice

Race & Gender Challenges

Implementing The Common Core

Best Ways To Begin The School Year

Best Ways To End The School Year

Student Motivation & Social Emotional Learning

Teaching Social Studies

Project-Based Learning

Using Tech In The Classroom

Parent Engagement In Schools

Teaching English Language Learners

Student Assessment

Today’s theme is on Brain-Based Learning. You can see the list following this excerpt from one of them:

* Author Interview: ‘How The Brain Learns”

David Sousa, author of the popular book, How The Brain Learns (now in its 5th edition), agreed to answer a few questions about it.

* Using ‘Brain-Based Learning’ in the Classroom

The staff at BrainFacts.org brought together three affiliated neuroscientists to make contributions in this first post of a four-part series.

* Working Smarter, Not Harder, With Neuroscience in the Classroom

Educators Wendi Pillars and Wendy Ostroff offered their experiences in this post.

* Taking Advantage Of Neural Networks In The Classroom

Dr. David Dockterman, Renate N. Caine, Ph.D., and Kevin D. Washburn, (Ed.D) are contributed their responses here.

* Teachers as “Brain Changers”

In this post, I shared some of my thoughts, a guest response from well-known author and researcher David A. Sousa, and comments left by readers.

I hope you’ve found this summary useful and, again, keep those questions coming!

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