12 Findings on Mind, Brain & Education | Getting Smart - 24 views
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Students’ brains continuously adapt to the environments where they live and work. As students learning in these places, these experiences gradually sculpt the architecture of the brain.
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Students’ genetic predispositions interact with learning experiences to give rise to a wide range of individual differences.
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Students learning English as a second language are processing written information in somewhat different ways than native English speakers so standard reading instruction techniques may not be the right fit for their needs.
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Education should give students opportunities to practice setting goals, tracking progress toward them, adjusting strategies along the way, and assessing outcomes.
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Emotions direct students’ learning processes, helping them gravitate toward positive situations and away from negative ones.
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Mathematics is at least partially dissociable from other cognitive domains and abilities within the domain of mathematics can be dissociable from one another.
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Education can support the development of emotional regulation skills, and this should be a priority as emotional regulation skills strongly predict academic achievement.
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When students from disadvantaged backgrounds are in high-quality schools, their cortisol levels decrease throughout the day. The better the school, the more the cortisol levels decrease. Therefore, a quality learning environment can help students reach healthy cortisol levels, which lead to better emotional regulation and more favorable learning outcomes.
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Environments that promote positive relationships and a sense of community promote learning.
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Providing meaningful learning experiences with ongoing guidance can enable students at all levels to build toward mastery of a common set of skills.
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This scientific evidence that emotion is fundamental to learning settles longstanding ideological debates concerning whether educators should be responsible for emotional development—if educators are responsible for intellectual development, they are inherently involved in emotional development as well.
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Student-centered approaches to learning require students to be self-directed and responsible for their own learning, which requires executive functioning skills such as goal setting, planning, and monitoring progress.
