Educaltional+Leadership


 * __http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/summer07/vol64/num09/The-Neuroscience-of-Joyful-Education.aspx__**

T his article is very helpful in understanding how important a students comfort level is in a class. If we are just teaching the children and are not allowing them to enjoy or have fun with what they are learning it will make it much harder for the student to retain that information. More tests, discussed in the article, explained how a "strong positive emotion" in the classroom aid in students retaining information.
 * __Main Idea of Article__**

__**What is Neuroimaging?**__ Many of these results are proven using neuroimaging. Neuroimaging shows us what happens in the brain using glucose oxygen, and blood flow. These tests showed that the brain, when learning new information, is most active when all the senses are involved.

The article discussed the use of the acronym RAD to help educators remember the importance of keeping the class relevant, exciting, and stress free. The R stands for the reticular activating system which promotes novelty information transmission. The A stands for the amygdala's affective filter which stress free classrooms allow data to go through. Finally, the D stands for dopamine which pleasurable associations linked with learning will release this.
 * __RAD__**

The rest of the article discusses the ways to //**__help classrooms achieve a great learning enviornement__**//
 *  Make the information in class relevant to the student
 *  Allow students to have breaks
 *  Create positive associations to the new information and the student
 *  Prioritize the information so the student does not have so many facts thrown at them at once
 *  Let the students learn independently
 *  Create a safe heaven for the students