Brain-based Learning
- 1. Ms. Mary George Varghese Asst. Professor Mahatma Education Society’s Pillai’s College of Education and Research ,Chembur, Mumbai Maharashtra, India.
- 2. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
- 4. A teacher has to devise the proper teaching strategy since the abilities of the children vary. So all the students can’t be fit in to the same. . THE GREATEST CHALLENGE BEFORE AN EXCELLENT TEACHER
- 6. Jensen (1998), Brain-based learning is an interdisciplinary answer to the question of, “what is the most effective way of the brain’s learning mechanism?”
- 7. Brain-based learning is an effective teaching technique that represents abstract or complex content matter in to simple and meaningful scaffolds and it has the potential to delay the learning platue since it provides great scope for interaction among and between students and teacher.
- 8. Brain hemisphericity is the tendency of an individual to process information through the left hemisphere or the right hemisphere or in combination. left hemisphere operates in a linear, sequential manner with logical, analytical, propositional thought. right hemisphere operates in a nonlinear, simultaneous fashion and deals with non-verbal information as well as dreams and fantasy.
- 9. A study of the effectiveness of Brain- based Learning on the comprehension of certain educational psychology concepts, the hemispheric dominance and learning style preference among teacher trainees.
- 11. There is no significant relationship between Brain-based learning and comprehension of concepts of Educational Psychology. There is no significant hemispheric dominance among the student teachers.
- 12. There is no learning style preference among the student teachers. There is no perceptional difference among teacher trainees on teaching methodologies.
- 13. The study was carried out on a sample of 200 B.Ed students. The methodology followed was the pre-test, post test quasi- experimental design type, viz. O1 X O2 O3X O4 method was used in the study. Here, O1 and O3 are the pre-test scores; O2 and O4 are the post-test scores.
- 15. Out of the total sample 28% of the students are right hemispheric dominant students whereas 42% are left hemispheric dominant students and 30% of the students are with integrated hemisphericity.
- 16. There are learning styles preferences exist among the student teachers. •accommodators •assimilators •convergers or divergers
- 17. The students with right hemispheric dominance are divergers or assimilators. The left hemispheric students are mostly accommodators. The integrated hemispheric dominant students are found to be disproportionately accommodators, assimilators i.e. they are more compatible with different Learning styles.
- 18. The teacher trainees rated the teaching strategies co-operative learning, constructivist learning, and brain- based learning as the most interactive and effective strategies.
- 19. Reframe teacher training programme which should be attuned to their brain characteristics and learning styles.