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Teaching the ?three sides of the brain?
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Teaching the ?three sides of the brain?
The International Preparatory School (IPS) welcomed a new expert in teacher training last week. "We find it very important that our staff keep up with new teaching methods and meet trainers to whom they can relate so that they are always improving their teaching," said Ida Coombes, the school head. This time, it was the turn of the well-known leading expert on teaching and the learning brain from the UK, Trevor Hawes, to hold interactive sessions with teachers.
He has co-authored the best seller Effective Teaching and Learning in the Primary Classroom and now goes throughout the UK and other countries to train on various topics relating to teaching, learning and creativity in a primary classroom. ?I believe that all primary teachers should have at least a basic notion of how the brain works so as to adapt their teaching methods and make them brain-compatible. The idea is to make understanding, memorization and recalling go with the flow of the brain,? explained Trevor Hawes. Teachers were ?taught? how to best run their classes to ensure that pupils learn more easily.
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?Children learn best through listening, seeing and doing. The quality of teaching will influence the children?s capacity to apply their knowledge to solve real problems afterwards.? Trevor Hawes recommends that the ?three sides of the brain? of children ? instinct, emotions and the learning/thinking side ? be taken into consideration when teaching.
Although the educational adviser found that IPS teachers are already aware that the chalk and talk method is not beneficial to children and already use learner-friendly methods of teaching, training such as the sort he provides helps to put words to what they are already doing. ?It helps them think more about their teaching and see how they can cater for all,? he explained. The differences between boys and girls must, for instance, be taken into account by teachers because they have a very different way of acquiring new skills, according to Trevor Hawes.
For Ida Coombes, it is essential that pupils be ?given skills to cope with life at an early age because they are developing in a global world now?. And their teachers are the ones who must provide them with those skills. Thanks to the experience of Trevor Hawes in primary education, Mrs Coombes hopes her teachers will have even more tools to make sure the specificities of every child are taken into consideration in the classroom. ?Teachers must adapt to their classroom,? insists the educationist.
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