How Your Child Learns Best

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As students lose interest in lecture and-memorize classes, their attention wanders, and disruptive behaviors are a natural consequence. Even for children who are able to maintain focus on rote teaching, the disruptive responses of their classmates are encroaching more and more on teachers’ instruction time as they try to maintain order. The good news is, there is hope for education.

This is an exciting and pivotal time in brain research. Neuroimaging and brain mapping are being used outside the confines of medical and psychological study, and the resulting work has opened windows into the functions of the thinking brain. We now can view what happens in the brain as information from the senses is categorized and organized into short- and long-term memory—scans can literally show learning taking place! My personal revelations about education came to me not as a classroom teacher, but as a neuroscience researcher.

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