Applied NEUROEDUCTION-DUBLIN

“Teachers are excellent cognitive enhancers because they modify the brain in a way that lasts a lifetime.” – Infusing neuroscience into teacher professional development (2013); research of international importance in the sciences of learning and cognitive development. With an eminently practical methodological design, this program addresses the urgent demand for science-backed teaching, selecting and implementing teaching approaches that have the greatest endorsement of contemporary neuroscientific research. To materialize this training, the program is structured around the 6 key competencies that current neuroscience places as the pillars with the greatest direct impact on the intellectual development and quality of learning of students:
Proactive and curious ● learning. ● Emotional well-being and resilience. ● Systemic and computational thinking. Executive ● Functions. ● Social Cognition and Collaborative Behavior. ● Metacognition and consolidation. It is based on an expert-validated approach, which considers the methodological training of teachers as the fundamental requirement for student success, with the aim of transforming traditional teaching models into class designs with high cognitive performance. Throughout the 6 workshops, teachers learn new strategies of applied neuroeducation based on recent evidence, how to apply them to improve the learning of their
students, and how to foster the creation of a thriving and intellectually stimulating educational community. To achieve this, each block begins with updating the teacher’s own instructional design competencies under the focus of the specific competence, and transitions to classroom transfer by working with real problems and situations. Everything learned culminates in the preparation of a final Neuroeducational Redesign project for the center.