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Seven Brain-based instructional Strategies

1. Brain’s Time Clock
Every person has its own attention span. This is because of ultradine rhythms that
influence the attention, interest, cognitive, memory, visual perception, arousal, performance,
moods and behavior. It was suggested due to this reason that teacher must vary instructional
activities and spend no more than 12-15 minutes of focused attention on passive learning.
Teacher therefore must maximize their lesson in this minute since students may not able to
catch up the lesson farther the time. On the other hand, teacher can instruct within this time
after a minute there will be activity or other presentation.

2. Repetition
Do not expect that student will immediately absorb your lesson by presenting it once;
there is a need to pass the assessment and remember it forever. By means of repetition, student
can develop and strengthen the brain connection that helps them encode information. Yet there
is a need of different ways to repeat it to student. Teacher can use variety of ways such as video,
images, charts, before and graphic modules after modules and graphic organizers.

3. Images
Studies on memory and brain have found out that 80 to 90 percent of learning of
students from visual. This clearly shows that brain respond more on visual. The long-term
memory learning functioned more if teaching is being pair with meaningful images. Visuals help
people make sense out of the content and direct attention, increasing the possibilities that the
learners will remember. This implies that eLearning designers would do best to match chunks of
text with graphics, diagrams, and videos whenever possible.

4. Novelty
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter and known as the feel-good neurotransmitter. This
hormone is releases and associated with happiness and serotonin regulates our mood. And in
the field of teaching, the student increase dopamine level as the students know the stimuli has
the potential to reward them in some way. This hormone motivates the student to get the
reward. Moreover, there are several ways to introduce novelty in learning courses simply being
creative; you can probably make activity that can aroused the interest of students lead them to
excitement and enjoyment for learning. Never forget to relate every exciting activity to your
topic.
5. Automatic Learner
There are types of languages a person can understand. Its either verbal or non-verbal
communication. In addition, within this area of brain-based strategy, the teacher should need to
create a positive environment with sufficient resources and stimuli where students can enjoy
learning. It was supported by research that according to them, 95 percent of learning of
students is non-conscious. This means that learning is what only the teacher is saying but also
“doing”. Teacher must project identity of a just person because students may learn from it.

6. Social Brain
Recent neuroscience research underlines the brain’s inherently social nature. We,
humans have the intelligence about interpersonal wherein we develop relationship with others.
By means of interaction, students can increases their information and comprehension and retain
more data. By making group activity using forum, chat and other way, students can acquire
more learning. Teacher must make a more interactive activity that will insure all the
participation of the students.

7. Elicit Emotions
In order to reach holistic learning, teacher must use both the left and right brain. From our
previous assignment, it was mentioned that right brain is responsible for emotion. And emotion
has something to do with our learning. Emotions are pivotal to attention, perception, memory,
and problem solving. When the amygdala, the emotional part in the center of the brain, notices
that content has a high emotional value, it considers this material to be more important.
Learners remember this stimuli more easily. Storytelling is one of the best ways to evoke
emotions such as risk, excitement, urgency, and pleasure. Plus, stories have the added benefit
that their structure makes sense to the hippocampus and this helps students store this content.
Let’s make an example with ourselves. Have we watched inspirational movies that really made
us cry? If it does, I am sure that it will remain in your heart since in touches your emotion. The
same thing happened in teaching, if the teacher can touch the emotion of the students, then the
learning will always remain in their heart.