At the TCCTA Professional Development Seminar during the 2010 annual convention in Houston, members will learn about "The Multiple Pathways Model: Using Brain Research to Orchestrate Learning," with Janet Zadina. The seminar will be held on Friday, March 5, at 1:00 p.m.
Here's a link for a preview, including an interview with the speaker by TCCTA executive director Richard Moore.
In this exciting presentation, loaded with real brain images and scattered with interactive experiences, attendees will actually see how learning takes place in the brain through powerful images and discover what is required for that to happen. Neuroscience indicates that the more modalities by which students encode information, the easier that information is to learn and recall. As educators, we often think of learning pathways as consisting of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. In this workshop, attendees will experience new and exciting pathways that will energize instruction and strategies for accessing these additional pathways in order to reach diverse and struggling learners. Come prepared to laugh, learn, experience, and engage!
Dr. Janet Zadina is a cognitive neuroscientist, reading specialist, and former high school and community college instructor. She received her doctorate in the College of Education at the University of New Orleans, conducting her award-winning dissertation research on the neuroanatomy of dyslexia through collaboration with Tulane University School of Medicine.
Dr. Zadina is author of Six Weeks to a Brain-Compatible Classroom—a workbook for educators, among other books. She is the founder of Brain Research and Instruction and has presented keynotes and workshops internationally on the subject.
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