Video 1: The Neurobiology of Preparing Brains and Bodies to Learn in the Classroom

Even highly skilled educators need help to be effective when students are not ready to learn. Stress and anxiety influence daily school life academically and behaviorally, as these impact processing capabilities in the brain, creating dysregulation…

And, dysregulation is contagious, growing from one to two students to entire classrooms. You can see the problem if what we’ve been trained to do is ignore certain behaviors. Neuroscience can help us understand what is happening for educators and students in moments of dysregulation and help us learn to recognize when students are not in brain or body states conducive to learning.

This is the first step in understanding how to prepare brains and bodies to learn by providing clues about what is needed and what support will move students back to a place of learning.

Description

What: This video course is the first of a 5-part video series Empowering Educators and Students: Strategies for Navigating the Realities and Thriving in Today’s Schools.” This video course, along with the second in the series “Creating a Felt Sense of Safety and Belonging in School Starts with the Brain,” provides a foundation for understanding the science of behavior from a brain and body perspective, including how to apply this knowledge in our work with students, so we are preparing their brains to learn!

You are welcome to watch this video course as a stand-alone course or can view them as a series! Should you want to watch the entire, 5-part video series, we recommend viewing them in this order:

  • The Neurobiology of Preparing Brains and Bodies to Learn in the Classroom
  • Creating a Felt Sense of Safety and Belonging in School Starts with the Brain
  • The Classroom is a Nervous System: Working with Daily Regulation and Dysregulation Cycles
  • The Process of Developing Self-regulation: Understanding the Missing Pieces
  • Brain-aligned Strategies for Re-wiring Brains and Re-patterning Nervous Systems

Where: Learn from anywhere you are!

Learning Objectives:

  • Discover how brain states and body states impact students’ learning abilities.
  • Recognize how stress and anxiety show up in classrooms daily as behaviors.
  • Utilize 3 questions to help identify brain and body states.

Cost: $25 USD 

Click here to buy the full 5-Part Series at a discounted rate!

Presenter: Judith Norman, MA, MS, LPC, RPT-S

Judith, the creator of the Developmental Mindsets Paradigm™ is licensed as both a Professional and School Counselor. Judith is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and is also Certified as a Synergetic Play Therapy® Teacher and Supervisor, and in EMDR therapy, along with being trained in Mindfulness in Education. She has been utilizing the tenets of Synergetic Play Therapy® in educational settings for the past 10 years, leading to the development of social-emotional, trauma-informed programming to support students and educators.

Refund Policy: This course is non-refundable. Should an extenuating circumstance limit your ability to complete this course, you may contact the Synergetic Education Institute to discuss your options, info@synergeticeducation.com.

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