Body-Brain Partnership

Emotion

The gatekeeper to learning and performance

Emotions drive attention

Attention influences perception, learning, and memory

The thalmus receives, sorts, and forwards input from sensory organs

Implications

Environment is a critical factor to student learning

The thalmus requires a relaxed emotional climate to convert information into long term memory

Movement

Brain growth is dependent upon mobility

Motion centers in the brain are responsible for thought sequencing

All organisms that move have a brain

Mimicry is a powerful, movement based, learning tool

Two Parallel, complementary info systems.

Electro-chemical and Whole Chemical