Workshop 1:

Learning with the Brain in Mind. An introduction to brain-compatible learning

Using the Four Worlds and the Information Processing Models, John takes you through six amazing hours of learning about how the human brain best works in classrooms. Delegates will examine how to create the conditions that optimise students’ engagement in classroom learning. Stunning images, relevant anecdotes, discussion time and extensive notes make this workshop one of the most memorable of all time.

Content:

   • The Four Worlds: identifying individual talents and strengths, growing quality lives
   • An animated tour of the human brain: a contemporary understanding of learning
   • Growing dendrites: how to utilise the amazing plasticity of the young brain
   • The effects of allostasis, stress, boredom and enrichment on brains: creating the ideal conditions
   • Mind Your Brain Program: inspiring ways to teach students about brain care, memory and learning
   • The critical role of sleep and hydration: brain care for optimal learning and better behaviour
   • Information Processing Model: ways to teach using explicit levels of memory and stages of learning
   • Learning Styles: recognising talents and planning lessons with individual learning styles in mind
   • Life-long learning and career preferences: deploying the Learning Styles application

"I have enormous respect for your professionalism and talk of your brain-based learning approach wherever I go. Only last week, when discussing innovative programs with principals and teachers whose schools won our annual State Showcase Awards, I came across a cluster of schools using the BBL principles as the core strategy in school pedagogy; a discussion which again prompted me to mention your work. Your work on this front has been inspirational for thousands of teachers and I trust that long after I'm gone from this role, the systemic reforms to which I have contributed at state and national level will play a symbiotic role with your valuable message about how teachers can optimise their teaching effectiveness."
Hon. Rod Welford, Minister for Education & Training.
Minister for the Arts Government of Queensland, Australia