How Learning Happens
Course Description: This course explores and analyzes how the brain, as a social organism, learns best throughout the lifespan, from our early schooling through late life. It helps teachers make connections to neurobiological principles, with the goal of creating classrooms that nurture healthy attachment patterns and resilient psyches.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze how secure attachment and supportive relationships are critical for healthy psychological development and the building of social brain networks
- Analyze the brain as a social organ of adaptation critical to cognitive development
- Identify techniques to succeed with difficult or “unteachable” students
- Analyze teaching from the perspectives of social neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology
- Create classrooms that nurture healthy attachment patterns and resilient psyches
