Zoom: The Engaged Brain: Brain Compatible Approaches for Motivating All Learners
March 17, 2025
This lively workshop provides teachers with practical strategies based on current research on the brain that help boost student involvement, motivation, and learning. Participants will learn how to break up direct instruction and increase retention of key information and concepts, actively engage students regardless of special needs or language barriers, increase movement, laughter, and content-based talk in every lesson, and use current research in neuroscience to make strategic instructional decisions.
What You Will Learn
Instructor: Katie Anderson, M.Ed., NBCT
Katie is a National Board Certified Teacher and 15-year classroom veteran, teaching all grades K-12 through her work with the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina and Duke University’s Talent Identification Program. She has also served as a mentor teacher, teacher trainer, and curriculum designer within her state and district. On the national level, as an educational consultant with Conscious Teaching, Katie brings her passion and enthusiasm for education and educators to schools and districts across the country. She specializes in providing schools and districts with research based, easy-to-implement strategies and concepts that help teachers reach all students and improve the effectiveness of their teaching.
March 17, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Cost: $99
**All MSSA, Class C and/or reservation schools will receive free registration.****
3 OPI renewal units provided
Course ID: 25561200
To obtain more information, contact [email protected]
Register at https://forms.gle/jTTUJbo2F43GDeR2A
March 17, 2025
This lively workshop provides teachers with practical strategies based on current research on the brain that help boost student involvement, motivation, and learning. Participants will learn how to break up direct instruction and increase retention of key information and concepts, actively engage students regardless of special needs or language barriers, increase movement, laughter, and content-based talk in every lesson, and use current research in neuroscience to make strategic instructional decisions.
What You Will Learn
- How to get and maintain student attention
- How to actively engage students during direct instruction
- How to increase student retention of key information & concepts
- How to increase movement, laughter, and content-based talk
- How neuroscience informs excellent teaching & leaning
- Appropriate for all grade levels, K-12
- Relevant for teachers, mentors, leaders, and aides
- Addresses the needs of most student populations, including general ed, special ed, language learners, and disadvantaged populations
Instructor: Katie Anderson, M.Ed., NBCT
Katie is a National Board Certified Teacher and 15-year classroom veteran, teaching all grades K-12 through her work with the Wake County Public School System in North Carolina and Duke University’s Talent Identification Program. She has also served as a mentor teacher, teacher trainer, and curriculum designer within her state and district. On the national level, as an educational consultant with Conscious Teaching, Katie brings her passion and enthusiasm for education and educators to schools and districts across the country. She specializes in providing schools and districts with research based, easy-to-implement strategies and concepts that help teachers reach all students and improve the effectiveness of their teaching.
March 17, 2025 from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Cost: $99
**All MSSA, Class C and/or reservation schools will receive free registration.****
3 OPI renewal units provided
Course ID: 25561200
To obtain more information, contact [email protected]
Register at https://forms.gle/jTTUJbo2F43GDeR2A