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Learning & the Brain Summer Institute: Neuroscience & the Classroom--Strategies for Maximizing Students' Engagement, Memory & Potential

Sponsored by: University of California, Santa Barbara
Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 - Friday, August 6, 2010
Registration Deadline: May 15, 2010
Location: University of California, Santa Barbara

From August 3-6, 2010, Learning & the Brain will offer a Summer Institute, co-sponsored with the Neuroscience Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA on the oceanside campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara. As brain imaging studies and cognitive neuroscience continue to give a clearer picture of how individuals respond to sensory stimuli and perform cognitive tasks, we have been accumulating knowledge about the brain's neural systems.

The Institute will be hands-on. You will collaborate in facilitated discussions and analyses of case studies to develop scientifically grounded approaches for understanding and meeting the diverse cognitive, social and emotional needs of students. You will discuss and share lesson challenges and successes as a learning community and identify ways to continue learning about the brain and learning after the Institute is over.

You will learn strategies to:

• Use advances in memory research to ignite student learning and turn on the brain’s learning centers.
• Examine ways to maximize and maintain attention and focus.
• Increase memory retrieval, and create long-term memories by mental manipulation in the prefrontal cortex, and build with executive-function strategies.
• Employ brain-friendly instructional strategies to advance student achievement in mathematics.
• Implement strategic review, study, and test preparation to allow students to retain information and transfer it to future learning and creative problem solving.
• Differentiate instruction for all learning styles and skill levels through activities and instruction within student's individual achievable challenge levels.

Full-time participation and preparation are expected throughout the Institute. The Institute is hands-on. Rather than simply listening to lectures, participants also collaborate in facilitated discussions and analyses of case studies to develop scientifically grounded approaches for understanding and meeting the diverse cognitive, social and emotional needs of students. A full schedule of class sessions and activities is held each day, amounting to a program total of 22 hours. Additionally, there will be assignment and group projects each evening for the next day.

About The Institute:
This Learning & the Brain Summer Institute helps individuals and school teams develop the knowledge, skills and strategies necessary to responsibly apply neuroscience and cognitive science findings to the classroom to improve teaching and learning. The program offers participants an intensive professional development experience, drawing on the most up-to-date findings in affective and social neuroscience. The Institute emphasizes memory and retention and their roles in learning, motivation, attention and the culture of schools.

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