Move Your Body to Fuel Your Brain

I used to play teacher as a kid. I had my cabbage patch dolls and stuffed animals all lined up, eager recipients of my brilliant eight-year-old instruction. It was always more difficult to play teacher with real humans. If I convinced my brother or a friend to join in, I didn’t like how it went. I wanted quiet, motionless learners. Wouldn’t that make your job so much easier? Unfortunately, we are not trying to educate...

Understanding the BRAIN -> SENSES -> BEHAVIOR Connection

Everything we feel, think, say, and do is related to the information coming in through our senses, and we have more than you might think. All BEHAVIOR comes from the BRAIN The BRAIN is getting information from EIGHT SENSES Understanding our SENSES will help us understand BEHAVIOR Let’s break this down a little further. Here are some of the BEHAVIORS you might see in the classroom: Fidgeting, wiggling, getting up and wandering around Grumpy, complaining,...