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Description
Learn how to create a supportive and engaging brain-friendly classroom based on the latest brain research. Examine strategies that promote attention and engagement at the beginning of a lesson, motivate students to want to learn during a lesson, and help them remember what they learned from a lesson.
Learning Objectives
- Dispel commonly held myths about education and learning.
- Understand how neurons form memories in the brain.
- Identify the three stages of memory and their implications for classroom instruction.
- Identify factors that affect attention and motivation when learning.
- Identify strategies for gaining and sustaining students’ attention.
- Describe factors that affect learning and retention in long-term memory (insufficient encoding, high cognitive load, lack of rehearsal, failure to consolidate, and contextual mismatch).
Documentation Methods
Participants must document their learning by completing the following summative.
1 Multiple Choice Exam - Learner demonstrates knowledge of content by selecting
the correct answer from the choices provided.
The summative must meet 80% of the established criteria.
Module Last Updated: 2025