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Effective Curriculum Development With Applied Neuroscience

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Why Join the Neuroeducation Community

The field of education has a learning and teacher crisis. Educators are often overworked and deal with a variety of stressors on the job from the pressure for students to meet academic achievements, the culture of the workplace, and lack of respect in the classroom or by adminstrators. But, what if there was a way to feel that your job was rewarding and that you are making a difference in other people’s lives? What if you could help students have an easier time learning and feel more motivated to do so?

Neuroscience has revolutionized our understanding of how the brain learns. We know that learning would not be possible without neurogenesis and neuroplasticity. Research shows that using teaching methods that incorporate neurogenesis and neuroplasticity outperforms other types of teaching method. The problem is that most educators are not aware of the research nor are educational institutions. Very few colleges and universities in America are teaching students going into the field of education about neurogenesis and neuroplasticity nor do faculty and professors use the research in the classroom when it makes sense to be doing so. Neuroscience may be the key to current teaching strategies, that when applied correctly, may boost your performance and competitiveness and job satisfaction while improving your student success.

Investing in your skills as an educator is investing in your students. Evolvingintellect.com has developed a workshop based on a 5-step model approach from neuroscience to help educators like yourself transform their teaching method. Whether you are new to teaching or wish to improve the skill of teaching, evolvingintellect.com will teach you how to develop neuroscience-based curriculum – a teaching method that may set you apart. 

Join the neuroeducation community now and “be your best educator”!

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 Curriculum Development Based on Neuroscience Is a Key to Being a Successful Educator

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My Story

As an educator for 15 years teaching at colleges and universities, there was a point early in my career when I had a great concern about traditional teaching. I had been taught about different learning theories and experienced the traditional teaching classroom of lecturing and exams. I repeated what I was taught, but I believed that my students could be learning more. Sometimes I felt that my students weren’t trying hard enough. Other times, I felt that I wasn’t doing enough to help my students pass their exams, so I kept trying to improve my classrooms by bringing in newer technology and interesting discussions and debates, but I could tell that it still wasn’t enough. Something was missing.

You may relate to my own experience where I felt my degree in education provided me with theories of learning and how to develop curriculum, but it failed to specifically teach how to lecture and develop curriculum that leads to true student academic success. One day while preparing for a class, I ran across some research about teaching to how the brain learns. It quickly caught my attention.

The problem I encountered was that the theories of brain-based learning were primarily targeted to k-12 grade, but I was still intrigued because I teach psychology and concepts about the brain. I began a journey of locating neuroscience articles about what happens in the brain while learning and what happens in the brain while learning and what improves learning. What I discovered for myself was that I could take the science about learning and apply it to all aspects of my classroom – from my lectures to my assessments and grading. I finally found a holistic approach to teaching that was missing in secondary schools and in my classrooms.

There are many great learning theories and strategies, but none are robust for a whole course approach. Most theories taught in education are important but outdated. Once I changed my teaching strategy to being neuroscience based, I saw the changes in my students’ learning and attitudes. I started gathering anecdotal research by comparing my own students’ learning outcome scores from my traditional teaching methods to my new improved neuroscience-based strategies. The jump was significant. Average learning outcome scores had increased anywhere from 10-30%. Some outcome scores were 100%.

After seeing for myself the dramatic changes in my students’ learning, I wanted to share this teaching style within the educational arena – to educators like yourself.

Are you ready for an upgrade to your teaching? I will show you the foundation of good teaching. It’s easy to learn and you can get started today.

With a solid foundation, you can start implementing strategies in a few short weeks. After you learn how easy it is to apply neuroscience to your classrooms, you will know how to continue improving your teaching for the long haul and feel confident that you are transferring your knowledge to the student. You can “be your best educator” starting today.

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The Mission of Evolving Intellect Is to Help Foster Intellect in the Minds of the Learner

“Thank you Dr. Maschio for such an enlightening workshop. I will definitely use what I have learned and incorporate it in my various courses. I think the workshop is pretty comprehensive. The activities that Dr. Maschio provided help engage the student more fully.”

Jenny Smith

“I found all the content helpful. All content taught in the workshop is applicable to all areas of my teaching method, as there is always an area that can be improved upon.  I am using all the information to help develop various aspects of my courses. I instruct OER courses, I further develop content and add assignments to personalize courses to my teaching method. I am also building two courses and I can build the content with the knowledge gained in the workshop.”

Steve Campbell

“Dr. Jill is an amazing professor and an amazing person. Saturday and 5 hours of time including driving back and forth was worth more than we thought. That was all new info. Very helpful.”

Sharif Haji

“All of the information was helpful, but for me the most important component was to add repetition to the assignments and to scaffold for understanding. This I can tell will really help students learn the information through effortful processing. Rather than just looking at the information once or twice before moving on to new chapters of information.
 
This workshop is great for all faculty to learn how to reach students in any class. This was clearly demonstrated during the presentations on the last day of our training. I believe that Dr. Maschio has built a strong foundational base from which any instructor can strengthen the connections for student understanding. It really brought the information to life in such new and exciting ways! This is a workshop that will work for college instructors, however having a background working in the school districts allows for me to infer that the information can also be presented in those settings with similar results.”
 
Monica Hernandez

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