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Neuroscience and Classroom Engagement: Strategies for Maximizing Students' Attention, Focus and Potential
July 20-24, 2015, Santa Barbara, CA
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Monday, July 20 |
Engaging Students from the Start |
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11:45 AM - 12:00 PM |
Registration |
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |
Working lunch: Introductions, overview of workshop, purpose and scope |
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1:00 PM - 2:20 PM |
Why know neuroscience?
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2:20 PM - 2:30 PM |
Coffee break |
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2:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
Sustaining attention and engagement |
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3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Best learning experience
Q&A
Group collaboration / application
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6:00 PM - 6:30 PM |
Networking reception |
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6:30 PM - 7:30 PM |
Dinner |
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Tuesday, July 21 |
The Impact of Emotions on Learning
and Memory |
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8:00 AM - 8:30 AM |
Breakfast |
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8:30 AM - 8:45 AM |
Small group discussion of assigned readings |
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8:45 AM - 9:50 AM |
How the brain's "emotional filter" can block student learning and strategies to build emotional self-control |
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9:50 AM - 10:15 AM |
The Emotional Filter |
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10:15 AM - 10:25 AM |
Coffee break |
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10:25 AM - 12:00 PM |
Promoting transfer of input through the emotional filter
The video game model for mindset, engagement and perseverance
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM |
Q&A and application collaborations |
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
Lunch |
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Wednesday, July 22 |
Memory, Narratives and Neuroplasticity |
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8:00 AM - 8:30 AM |
Breakfast |
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8:30 AM - 8:45 AM |
Small group discussion of assigned readings
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8:45 AM - 10:15 AM |
Promoting patterning for memory encoding
Maximizing successful memory links
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10:15 AM - 10:25 AM |
Coffee break |
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10:25 AM - 11:45 AM |
Narrative power and neuroplasticity
Q&A and small group topic specific collaboration and feedback
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11:45 AM - 12:10 PM |
Q&A and applications collaborations |
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12:10 PM - 12:45 PM |
Lunch |
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Thursday, July 23 |
Building the Environment for the Memory & Cognition |
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8:00 AM - 8:30 AM |
Breakfast |
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8:30 AM - 8:45 AM |
Small group discussion of assigned readings |
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8:45 AM - 10:15 AM |
Durable neural networks of memory |
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10:15 AM - 10:25 AM |
Coffee break |
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10:25 AM - 12:00 PM |
Mistakes, multisensory memory
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12:00 PM - 12:30 PM |
Q&A and application collaborations |
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12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |
Lunch |
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Friday, July 24 |
Maximizing Students' Highest Potentials |
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8:00 AM - 8:30 AM |
Breakfast |
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8:30 AM - 8:45 AM |
Small group discussion of assigned readings |
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8:45 AM - 10:15 AM |
Changin needs for executive functions
The developing prefrontal cortex
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10:15 AM - 10:25 AM |
Coffee break |
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10:25 AM - 11:45 AM |
Executive functions across the curriculum |
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11:45 AM - 12:15 PM |
Future: In Neuroscience and in your goals |
Please note: Schedule is preliminary and subject to change
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