5 Ways to Improve Teaching with Brain-Based Research

January 6, 2015 Melissa Hughes, Ph.D.

Republished with permission from Melissa Hughes, Ph.D. Original article posted on December 2, 2014

There has been a lot of buzz lately around the maker movement. Recent brain-based research support the notion that hands-on making, building, and creating not only nurture creativity, but also impact cognition, working memory, and innovative problem solving. While we don’t have to have the working knowledge of neuroscientists, if we're going to improve our practice of teaching it's important to understand how the brain learns. 

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