How Do You Use Brain-Based Learning In Designing Lessons?
Brain-based learning is based on a theory that if the structure and function of the brain are not hindered from fulfilling their normal tasks, learning will happen. It’s often said that everyone can learn, when the truer statement is that everyone does learn all the time. Everyone has a brain that is an enormously powerful processor of information. Unfortunately, many traditional school practices discourage learning by inhibiting, ignoring or punishing the normal learning functions of the brain. Plan to have the class fully immersed in a culture that it’s studying, not only for language studies. In the case of a science lesson, for example, arrange for students to be taught the science using the target language for the textbooks and instruction. This appeals to the parallel processing ability of the brain by having students listen and acquire language while being taught other subjects by that language. Immerse learners in complex, interactive experiences that are both rich and real, su
