All instruction should be powered by Brain-Based Learning. It is vital to approach the individual brain in a way that produces cooperation and learning.

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Brain-Based Learning Principles include:

• Each brain is totally unique.

• Stress and threat impact the brain in many ways. These produce negative emotions.

• Emotions run the brain. Emotions are the key to memory, meaning, and attention.

• Feeding the brain is important. Brains are stimulated by challenge, novelty, and feedback in learning environments.

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Brain-Based Teaching Results:

• It enhances students’ self-belief.

• It enables students working alone or enjoying learning relationships with others and they feel competent to achieve their own learning.

• It helps engage students in all that is happening.

• It creates learning that is active, collaborative, and builds learning relationships.

• It creates experiences for students that are challenging and enriching and that extend their academic abilities.