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Just imagine how the wiring in a child’s right brain in learning. If we don’t make
evolved brain is different at birth then drastic changes soon, our children will
our own. Mother Nature prepares us continue to be disengaged, unmotivated
with tools we will need in life; it is the students. It is time for Universities to
obligation of the adults in a child’s life to teach future educators the neuroscience
teach how to use those tools. of education; teach how the brain learns,
what areas to activate in a struggling
Think for a moment, we are not that far student. It is time to learn how to
off from the year 2050, are we properly engage a students’ mind and heart in
preparing our children? Look back at the their education allowing them to take
history of education in our country, it is ownership of their own learning.
still the antiquated, patriarchal system
that it began as. We all know this planet Imagine a world where every educator
will look very different in the future, was a neuroscientist-educator and knew
how remains to be seen. Will we still be the workings of a child’s brain, and knew
graduating students from high school how to touch their hearts; where the best
without a single skill but the ability to and brightest future teachers clamored
pass a standardized test? We are twenty to be educators; where salaries honored
years into the 21st century and these the sacredness of teaching our young to
children are begging educators to engage build a better future. If we can accomplish
their rewired brains for success in life. this task, we will remove boundaries and
Begging to be allowed to engage their roadblocks for our children’s future.
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