- Brain-Based
Learning
- The 12 principles
are:
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1. The brain is a complex
adaptive system.
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2. The brain is a social
brain.
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3. The search for meaning is
innate.
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4. The search for meaning
occurs through patterning.
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5. Emotions are critical to
patterning.
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6. Every brain simultaneously
perceives and creates parts and wholes.
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7. Learning involves both
focused attention and peripheral attention.
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8. Learning always involves
conscious and unconscious processes.
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9. We have at least two ways
of organizing memory.
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10. Learning is
developmental.
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11. Complex learning is
enhanced by challenge and inhibited by threat.
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12. Every brain is uniquely
organized.
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- For complex learning to
occur, Caine and Caine have identified three conditions:
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1. Relaxed alertness - a low
threat, high challenge state of mind
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2. Orchestrated immersion -
an multiple, complex, authentic experience
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3. Active processing - making
meaning through experience processing
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- The
nine brain-compatible elements
identified in the ITI (Integrated Thematic Instruction) model
designed by Susan Kovalik
include: Absence of Threat,
Meaningful Content, Choices, Movement to Enhance Learning,
Enriched Environment, Adequate Time, Collaboration, Immediate
Feedback, and Mastery (application level).
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Brain-Based Learning
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