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Brain Based Learning

Learning to Learn: South Australia
At the heart of the Learning to Learn Project is the concept of moving beyond reform to redesign.

BBC Reith Lectures 2003: The Emerging Mind [Audio]
A series of lectures which propose a neurological and evolutionary approach to phenomena that were traditionally labeled "mental illness."

Current Neurological Research and its Implications for Educators
This new knowledge startlingly demonstrates that our brains are not heavily pre-programmed but they develop largely through experience and that early experiences in particular have a profound influence on how our brains are structured and our minds develop.

ASCD Resources on the Brain & Learning
Articles and book excerpts are available at this site.

ALITE - Accelerated Learning in Training & Education
Alite is the UK's leading name in the practical application of modern learning methods. Our mission is 'to extend the horizons of possibility' for all those with whom we work.

Battery Hens or Free Range Chickens: What Kind of Education for What Kind of World
Education is floundering for lack of really clear thinking. By default, we will end up in the world of the battery hens who hardly know how to stand on their own feet when their cages are removed. But those reassuring cages that support us now won't be around in 20 years time. The survivors will surely be the free-range chickens.

Learning to Go with the Grain of the Brain
It is possible to construct models of learning which go with the grain of the brain while at the same time reconnecting adults and children outside the formal setting of a school.

Brain-Based Learning: Practical Classroom Applications
A practical link between current psychological and neurological research and education.

Society for Neuroscience: Brain Briefings
Basic neuroscience discoveries lead to clinical applications in the following areas; brain injury, brain mechanisms, drugs development, eating, emotions, exercise, gender, memory, nervous system disorders and diseases, nervous system repair, pain, the senses, sleep and technology.

Brain-Activity Changes in Maltreated Kids
Pollak's study, which he presented to the Society for Psycho physiological Research last fall, looked at differences in brain electrical activity between children who have suffered specific forms of child abuse and children who have not suffered maltreatment.

Bullying Behaviour: Blame It On Bad Genes?
Bullying can be inherited through your genes. Such aggressive antisocial behavior, in fact, is more likely to be inherited than are non-aggressive antisocial behaviors like delinquency, truancy, theft -- except among girls.

Shuffle Brain
A collection of work on aspects of the brain and its effect on behavior:

Research Index of Knowledge, Simulation of Human Memory, Creativity.
A website which explores the fundamental nature of the brain and highlights applications that provide insights.

Classroom Compass Vol. 3, Num. 2 - Brain Research Informs Education
Exciting discoveries in neuroscience and continued developments in cognitive psychology have presented new ways of thinking about the brain-the human neurological structure and the attendant perceptions and emotions that contribute to learning.

"Mozart Effect"; - Music/Brain Research
A web site of links into the research of music and its role in the developing brain.

Teaching for Intelligence, Arthur Costa
The educational process remains focused on low level skills. The real development of thinking skills, even within these areas of intelligence, is usually as neglected as the rest of our mental capacities.

Readings--The Center for Cognitive Coaching
A web site of links to Cognitive Coaching the concept that each of us has resources that enable us to grow and change from within. Costa and Garmston call these resources "States of Mind".

Habits of Mind website
This Web site will provide the resources to support your understanding of what are the Habits of Mind and who are the people behind the Habits of Mind series.

The Persistence Triangle
How can we help students, parents, administrators and teachers develop a more useful understanding of what it really means to be persistent?

Index to Links

Accountability
Associations
Assessment Literacy
Australian Education Departments
Australian Tertiary Sector
Brain Based Learning
Bullying Prevention
Climate and Culture
Current Issues
Curriculum Development
Decision Making
Early Childhood
Educational Leadership
Emotional Intelligence
Equity and Diversity
Educational Resources
Futures Education
Governance
Indigenous Education
Leadership-New Science
Leadership Resources
Learning Styles
Learning Technologies
Local Management
Partnerships-Community
Pedagogy
Performance Management
Professionalism
Psychology
Questionnaires and Surveys
Research Methods
Rural Matters
School Reform
Schools-Commercialism
Self Assessment
Special Education
Strategic Planning
Students at Risk
Systems Thinking
Tools for Leaders
Values and Ethics
Women and Leadership

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