Brain-Based Learning – Ed Sage School

Ed Sage School Wisdom

All instruction should be powered by Brain-Based Learning. It is vital to approach the individual brain in a way that produces cooperation and learning.

Brain-Based Learning Principles include:

Each brain is totally unique.
Stress and threat impact the brain in many ways. These produce negative emotions.
Emotions run the brain. Emotions are the key to memory, meaning, and attention.
Feeding the brain is important. Brains are stimulated by challenge, novelty, and feedback in learning environments.

Brain-Based Teaching Results:

It enhances students’ self-belief.
It enables students working alone or enjoying learning relationships with others and they feel competent to achieve their own learning.
It helps engage students in all that is happening.
It creates learning that is active, collaborative, and builds learning relationships.
It creates experiences for students that are challenging and enriching and that extend their academic abilities.

The individual student's academic success and emotional well being are the main goals of Ed Sage School.