Our Brains Love to Learn. So Why Don’t Our Students?
Make better and more intentional use of straightforward teaching strategies to create a joyful learning experience for students.
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About the Webinar
Student engagement
Straightforward teaching strategies
Curriculum design
Humans are born to be curious, exploring our environments, asking questions, investigating mysteries, and solving problems. So, why are students so often bored, disengaged, and reluctant learners? Likely, it’s because classroom learning experiences tend to be diametrically opposed to what kids’ brains are designed to do. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news: after decades of scientific research, we know more about how learning happens and how teachers can support learning than at any point in human history. That’s the key premise at the heart of the McREL-ASCD publication, The New Classroom Instruction that Works: by making better and more intentional use of straightforward teaching strategies, we can lift all learners. During this keynote, you’ll be introduced to (and experience) some powerful insights from the science of learning and the science of teaching that reveal how every teacher can design and deliver challenging, engaging, and joyful learning experiences that support the success of each and every student.
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Humans are born to be curious, exploring our environments, asking questions, investigating mysteries, and solving problems. So, why are students so often bored, disengaged, and reluctant learners? Likely, it’s because classroom learning experiences tend to be diametrically opposed to what kids’ brains are designed to do. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news: after decades of scientific research, we know more about how learning happens and how teachers can support learning than at any point in human history. That’s the key premise at the heart of the McREL-ASCD publication, The New Classroom Instruction that Works: by making better and more intentional use of straightforward teaching strategies, we can lift all learners. During this keynote, you’ll be introduced to (and experience) some powerful insights from the science of learning and the science of teaching that reveal how every teacher can design and deliver challenging, engaging, and joyful learning experiences that support the success of each and every student.
Key highlights:
Student engagement
Straightforward teaching strategies
Curriculum design
Speakers
President & CEO, Author
McRel International
Bryan Goodwin is President and CEO of McREL International, a nonprofit organization that provides in-depth professional learning and school improvement services to school systems worldwide to help educators use the science of teaching, learning, and leading to lift all learners. He has written many books that help researchers translate research into practical application, including The New Classroom Instruction that Works: The Best Research-based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement (ASCD, 2022), Building a Curious School: Restore the Joy that Brought You to School (Corwin, 2020), Learning that Sticks: A Brain-Based Model for K—12 Instructional Design and Delivery (ASCD, 2020); Unstuck: How Curiosity, Peer Coaching and Teaming Can Change Schools (ASCD, 2018), Balanced Leadership for Powerful Learning: Tools for Achieving Success in Your School (ASCD, 2015), The 12 Touchstones of Good Teaching: A Checklist for Staying Focused Every Day (ASCD, 2013), Simply Better: Doing What Matters Most to Change the Odds for Student Success (ASCD, 2011). He also writes a regular research column for ASCD’s monthly Educational Leadership magazine. He has shared insights with audiences from across the Caribbean, Mideast, North America, South America, Oceania, and Australia. He holds a B.A. from Baylor University and an M.A. from the University of Virginia.
