Neuroscience In The Classroom

Neuroscience is a new study in the sense of education because they are beginning to explore the biological processes and its relationship with education. Students are faced with many different challenges when it comes to getting an education including learning disabilities and stress that is presented in the classroom. Children and young adults that are still in school can experience a variety of different things while they are in the classroom over the years. The teacher is one of the only people that can control the classroom and how the experience is for each of these classes. In classrooms today there is a large push for standardized testing and this is how the teachers are evaluated on how well they are teaching their class. Although …show more content…
We need to make the classroom relevant and reduce any stress that the student may be feeling about the lesson that you would be teaching. You can reduce this type of stress by making the lessons more personally interesting and motivational. Having lessons that require the students to memorize a lot of facts the stress normally goes down if they see an intrinsic reward for their efforts in the end. Reducing stress is important so allowing the students a brief break can give parts of the brain a chance to cool down and time for the neurotransmitters time to rebuild. Having students in your classroom you do not want them to be afraid and uncomfortable in your classroom so have the pressure be taken off when picking on kids in the class you can pick names out of a cup and that is how they decided who gets to answer the question. This does not hurt the teacher and student relationship because they are all given an equal chance to be picked. Being able to prioritize information allow the students more of an opportunity to know what information to write down and what information is good to study. Having students discover things by themselves is one way that they will grow their confidence and motivation will increase and stress will decrease. This is because they are more accepting of their own mistakes if they are making their own discoveries and don 't have the pressures of someone else placed on them. Classrooms need to be a safe place that students feel safe and comfortable. This type of environment is a place that they know they can be who they are and get a good