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Preliminary Schedule 

Tuesday, June 22
Our bodies, our minds, our "selves:" Neurobiological perspectives on learning

 
11:00 AM- 12:00 PM Registration
12:00 PM- 1:00 PM Working lunch: Introductions, overview of workshop, purpose and scope
1:00 PM- 2:15 PM Using cognitive neuroscience and educational psychology to explore emotion in learning.
2:15 PM- 2:30 PM Coffee Break
2:30 PM- 3:30 PM Neurobiological insights on social interaction, creativity and emotion.
3:30 PM- 4:00 PM Implications for learning and school. Participants form groups to begin applying what they have learned to a case study. Possibilities to focus on atypical learners or on innovative assessment.
4:00 PM- 5:00 PM Free time
5:00 PM- 6:00 PM Networking reception
6:00 PM- 7:00 PM
After Dinner		 Dinner and supplementary guest lecture

Wednesday, June 23
Cognitive Development and Education: Teaching as a developmental process

 
9:00 AM- 10:15 AM Developmental trajectories and teaching for transfer. What does learning look like, and when does it happen?
10:15 AM- 10:30 AM Coffee break
10:30 AM- 12:00 PM What are the social aspects of learning? What are the roles of the teacher and of the learner?
12:00 PM- 1:00 PM Working lunch. Participants begin analyzing the cognitive, emotional, and social aspects of their case studies, using neurobiological and cognitive information. Possibilities to focus on atypical learners or on innovative assessment.
1:00 PM- 2:45 PM Building assessments that give back. Considering social, emotional and cognitive contexts.
2:45 PM- 3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM- 4:00 PM Implications for learning and school
4:00 PM- 5:00 PM Free time
5:00 PM- 6:00 PM Networking reception
6:00 PM- 7:00 PM Dinner
After Dinner Group Projects

Thursday, June 24
The state of the art: Teaching and learning in schools
9:00 AM- 10:15 AM
Continuing analysis of case studies from cognitive, social and emotional perspectives.
10:15 AM- 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM- 12:00 PM Continuing analysis of case studies from cognitive, social and emotional perspectives.
12:00 PM- 1:00 PM Working lunch. Participants engage in in-depth, collaborative analyses of their case, and begin constructing a pedagogical plan. Possibilities to focus on atypical learners or on innovative assessment.
1:00 PM- 2:45 PM The tools of cognitive neuroscience and education: an integrated cognitive, social and emotional perspective.
2:45 PM- 3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 PM- 4:00 PM Implications for learning and school
4:00 PM- 5:00 PM Free time
5:00 PM- 6:00 PM Networking reception
6:00 PM- 7:00 PM Dinner
After Dinner Group projects - participants prepare presentations on a pedagogical plan for their own professional setting.

Friday, June 25
Presentations and in-depth reflection
9:00 AM- 10:15 AM Participant presentations, professional networking
10:15 AM- 10:30 AM Coffee Break
10:30 AM- 11:00 AM Participant presentations, professional networking
11:00 AM- 12:00 PM Participants and instructors work to construct a set of summarizing principles for what was accomplished
during the workshop. What was learned? What new information was generated about the intersection of
neuroscience and education?
12:00 PM- 1:00 PM Lunch with wrap-up

Please note: Schedule is preliminary

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