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There’s much more than video to view; make sure you take advantage of all your options:

  • View “Details” for a brief description of the contents of each video segment.

  • Download a full “Transcript” and use it to record your notes or for review.

  • Use the accompanying “Guidebook” as a study tool or to follow along as you listen and watch. Every guidebook features opening activities, follow-up discussion ideas, tips for reflection or journal writing, speaker bios, and recommended reading.

  • Download the audio to your MP3 player to listen when and where it’s most convenient for you.

  • Complete the “Reflection and Follow-up Questions” to help solidify your new knowledge.

RAMP UP YOUR STAFF PD WITH PD 360—FREE FOR NAESP MEMBERS

Make PD 360 a major component of your school team’s professional development. Through your exclusive free NAESP member access each month to four video learning segments and ancillary materials, you and your teachers can learn from the top leaders in education today.

PD 360 VIDEOS: BRAIN-BASED LEARNING

 

How to Implement Brain-Based Learning
Understanding how students learn is vitally important in developing appropriate and meaningful instruction. Your NAESP membership gives you free access to videos that will help you prepare your teachers. This month learn more about:

The Brain Processing Model: Information Input. Learn how the brain gathers information through the senses and stores information in different phases of memory. This video will help elementary students learn using sight, kinesthetic, and sound. 


Links Between Brain Research and Visual Tools. Learn how to use thinking maps to help elementary students organize information, express learning in graphic form, and detect patterns. Help your students embrace different ways of cognitive thinking skills and make visual connections in learning using the eight Thinking Maps tools presented. 


Introduction to Active Learning. Watch examples of elementary school teachers working with students in active learning environments. These activities provide students with better learning techniques in math, science, language, culture, and history. 


The Primacy-Recency Effect. Understand the concept of how effective teachers capture students' attention and focus. View examples of master teachers using powerful closure techniques and thinking bubbles to increase elementary student learning. 


Have you taken advantage of this exclusive NAESP member benefit? PD 360 is the largest, most respected online learning resource for educators-and it’s yours for free.

 

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