Recommended by world leaders in learning renewal, and listed in Howard Gardner's book, Intelligence Reframed, Rochester's 1st MITA Brain Institute launches secondary brain based applications to support your own fine endeavors for learning and assessment rejuvenation.
Secondary faculty who attend Rochester's 1st MITA Brain Institute could be among leaders who inspire change in your learning community. This brain based curriculum and assessment - improved student achievement significantly in several countries, and creates ongoing renewal through faculty-learner generated content.
MITA leaders envision participating faculty as genuine change agents in your schools - and we plan to support institute participants for one year as they implement secondary curriculum and assessment tasks - across diverse cultures - with the brain in mind. No new texts are needed, and classroom ready brain based materials will provide curriculum for fall.
Tools to ratchet up brainpower from Dr. Ellen Weber's Blog:
1. No Brain Left Behind
2. Death of Education - Dawn of Learning
3. Brain Parts Promote or Stomp out Change
4. Secondary and University with Brains in Mind
14. Retention Lost in Lectures
15. Engage Voices on the Other Side
16. Marks of Brainpowered Workplaces
17. Reinvigorate Brains for Learning Dividends
18. Move to Replace Broken Systems
19. Call for Simplicity that Adds Intelligence
20. Brainpower to Disagree and Prosper Peace
21. New Run ay Old Runways - Space for Renewal
22. Why Brain Based Approaches?
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