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Neuroscience of Learning: How Understanding Your Students’ Brains Can Inform Your Teaching​​​​​​​

Have you ever thought about how your class could change a student’s brain? In this interactive workshop, you will learn the basics of how the brain is structured, how it works, and how it can change. You will have opportunities to apply those findings to your own teaching.  

Learning Goals

After successfully completing this workshop you will be able to:

  • Understand major findings of cellular and systems neuroscience that are relevant to the classroom
  • Apply brain-based principles to your own course design

Workshop Resources

Materials

In the Library

  • Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III,, Mark A. McDaniel, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.  (Online Access Through Notre Dame)

Certificates

This workshop can apply toward these graduate student/postdoc certificates:

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