The Learning and Developing Brain

Everyone's "big picture" is not the same. Take Bob Ross for instance. His big picture was always the happy little trees ... and remember ... that was consistent. The same holds true for education; the big picture is not the same as others, but it is consistent: "the happy little students."  _________________________________________________________________________________ Is every educator's "big picture" the happy little students? 👦👧👦👧👦👧👦👧 ... OF COURSE NOT! Does that make them a bad educator? ... OF COURSE NOT! Children should be the big picture to all but... No people have the same functioning brain and life experiences, causing priorities to be different in each person. "Big Picture" of different Educators: pleasing administration test scores teaching every standard for that grade or content  pay increase / promotion individual student growth and progress other / miscellaneous  __________________

Thank You for Being a Friend 🎤🎵🎶🎤🎵🎷 Traveled down a road and back again __________________________________________________________ Social learning is an important component of education. Vygotsky, an important theorist in education, proposed social learning and the importance of social skills in a person's development; I believe that is why homeschooling is less appealing, since the students are less exposed to the social aspect of learning.  Here are some ways students benefit from social skills and social interaction: child can tutor others students in need child can be tutored if they are in need learning through play and/or the opportunity to free play vocabulary expansion exposure to different religions, races and/or ethnicity, and cultures exposure to new people  exposure to new information, thoughts, and ideas But ... should social interaction be strictly monitored with younger children? Clearly, that can be very evasive to a child's dev

The Frontal Lobe The frontal lobe is one the of the most important regions in the brain for learning. The functions of the frontal lobe include: memory, language, decision-making, and problem solving. It can be said that the frontal lobe is like the remote control of the brain because it controls how we communicate and our personalities.  Damage to the frontal lobe can result in: loss of motor movements - partial paralysis inability to speak and process language loss of problem solving skills reduced attention and awareness changes in personality  In education, the frontal lobe determines whether a child will retain the information or not, based on their working memory. If educators focused on the different regions of the brain and provided activities that cultivated that region's functions, students would be actually receiving instruction that 100% is tailored to what is in their ability. Below will be activities provided for each specific function.