Learner's Emotional and Social experience Support learners to monitor their own learning Age-appropriate exploration and discovery OPTIMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS Help learners feel safe and purposeful BRAIN HIERARCHY Help students acquire habits of the Mind Attend to trade-off between plasticity and brain development Page 1 of 1 See 90% Long-Term Memory Comprehension of a child's brain development happens before age 5 arvard Center for the Developing Child 90% Brain development before age 5 10% Brain development after age 5 PARIETAL LOBE *Sensory Information PARIETAL FUNCTIONS FRONTAL LOBE *Abstract Thinking FRONTAL LOBE LOBE *Taste *Touch *Smell *Temperature *Problem Solving *Reasoning *Executive Functioning *Organizing *Motor Functions *Regulates Emotions *Expressive language FUNCTIONS *Organizes thoughts on paper *Remembers facts from teacher *Starts and completes tasks *Tells stories TEMPORAL LOBE *Speech *Auditory Processing *Hearing *Behavior *Emotions *Short-Term memory TEMPORAL LOBE Working Memory Logic & Reasoning Auditory Processing Visual Processing Think Planning Attention Processing Speed OCCIPITAL LOBE OCCIPITAL LOBE *Visual System *Visual Information FUNCTIONS *Processes words on a page *Knows shapes and sizes *Recognizes letters *Knows left from right Executive Center "The Thinking Brain" Developmental shifts around ages 5-6, 11 & 15. Handles logic, empathy compassion, creativity, self-regulation, self-awareness, predicting, planning, problem-solving, attention. PREFRONTAL CORTEX REPTILIAN BRAIN INTEGRATED 2009-2015 TEACH though Love www.teach-through-love.com Flatliner/Getty Images Learning Strategies Wonder SPINAL CORD CEREBELLUM CEREBELLUM *Balance *Coordination *Attention *Rhythm *Proprioception *Vestibular FUNCTIONS *Kick a ball *Throw a ball *Jump on one foot *Ride a bike *Long-term memory FUNCTIONS *Processes what the teacher teaches *Fear *Fight or Flight *Retains Facts HUMAN BRAIN bood LIMBIC SYSTEM Emotional Center "The Emotional Brain" Developmental focus is during ages 0-5. Processes emotions, memory, response to stress, nurturing, caring, separation anxiety, fear, rage, social bonding and hormone control. Survival Center "Fight, Flight or Freeze" Developed at birth. Regulates autonomic functions: breathing, digestion, heart rate, sleep, hunger, instinctual behaviors & behaviors that sustain life.