The document discusses creating brain-compatible learning environments for adolescents. It provides attributes of a brain-compatible classroom such as providing moderate challenges, engaging positive emotions, and allowing time for processing. It also covers topics like how learning produces physical changes in the brain through processes like long-term potentiation and myelination during adolescence. Emotions strongly influence attention and learning for teenagers as their amygdala develops faster than their frontal lobes.
12. Each time an activity is repeated the bonds between neurons strengthen and expand, leading to an entire network developing which remembers the skill or information.
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28. How should we respond? Remember... No matter how well planned, how interesting, stimulating, colourful or relevant the lesson, if the teacher does all the interacting with the material the teacher ’ s - not the student ’ s - brain will grow new connections.
29. Activity 5:How would your students respond to the following task? Which lifestyle would you have preferred - that of the habitants, priests or nuns, or the coureurs des bois? From Bain, Colin M., Canadian History 7, Pearson, 2007
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39. Activity 6 In Israel, a Jew was walking down the street and was shot by a terrorist. In the United States, blacks were obliged by law to sit at the back of the bus. In some states in the U.S. if a black person killed a white person, that person was almost always found guilty. If a white killed a black, that person was almost always found innocent. In Canada, during World War II, legislation was passed that sent Japanese Canadians to special camps. In North America, it is not unusual to have all white juries hear a case of a non-white person. In Germany, during World War II, Jews were required by law to have travel passes in order to move about their community. In Canada, the First Nations People were denied access to most classy cafes. In South Africa, policy prohibited blacks from living in homes in areas designated as “white only” neighbourhoods. List B List A
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42. Concept Attainment can be used in all subjects… Math - prime numbers English - parts of speech Art - styles, movements Science - classifying living things
48. Activity 7: So, we know positive emotions enhance learning and negative emotions inhibit learning… How can be remove unnecessary stress? How can we engage student emotions?
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