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Brain-Based Learning, Remediation, and Cognitive Enhancement programs can help children with Learning Disabilities overcome some of their difficulties with maintaining attention, short-term memory, processing speed, planning, sequencing, and self-monitoring. Diagnoses that often accompany these functional difficulties are ADHD, ADD, Dyslexia, and Executive Dysfunction (or Executive Functioning).
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Action Based Learning™ is an educational consulting firm featuring award winning Consultant and Speaker, Jean Blaydes Madigan, M Ed K. Jean is internationally known as a pioneer in kinesthetic teaching strategies that apply brain research findings to classroom practice. She is the author of Thinking on Your Feet, a collection of over 200 lessons that use movement to reinforce academic concepts across the curriculum and co-creator with Cindy Hess of the Action Based Learning Lab. Jean’s energetic, informative, interactive presentations have wowed participants all over the world and in all fifty states. She has been featured on radio, on TV, and in newspaper articles as an expert in the field of children’s health and learning. Jean is definitely a “Teacher’s Teacher”.
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Brain-based learning and strategies emerging from the neuroscience’s body of research are still at a “buzzword stage.” Other valid theories concerning intelligence and brain-based learning (Lucas, 2004) are available. Gardner himself has been frustrated by “reductionist thinking” of many educators that “talk the language”, but walk using old instructional strategies--dividing up content into distinct learning modalities to the exclusion of other dimensions (Lackney, 2004). Researchers continually caution educators to resist the temptation to use neuroscience as a promotional tool for a pet program; much work needs to be done (Wolfe & Brandt, 1998).
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Brain-based learning is derived from the physiological studies of how the brain best learns. This article discusses brain physiology, brain-based learning, and implications to instructional designers. A challenge is presented to the profession in the conclusion.
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Brain-based learning theory has been shown to affect school performance/achievement (percentile ranking, grade-point averages) in the Park View Middle School and Dry Creek Elementary School projects (Caine, R.N., & Caine, G. (1997). Education on the edge of possibility. Alexandria, VA:ASCD.).
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Action Based Learning™ puts brain-based learning into action with teacher friendly, “kid-tested, kid-approved” strategies that move students to learn! Action Based Learning™ is based on brain research findings that support the link of early motor development, intentional movement, increased physical activity and exercise to improved cognition.
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