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