S.M.A.R.T.: A closer look at the brain
After a short break, we’re now talking about the brain. We’re talking about neurons, multitasking and the lobes. The frontal lobe controls personality, planning, voluntary motion, intelligence, memory...
View ArticleS.M.A.R.T.: Reflex actions
Alright, done with brain basics 101. We’re now moving on to reflexes. These workshops are full day sessions, so I’m going to try to break entries down to specific sessions, but there may be some abrupt...
View ArticleS.M.A.R.T.: Learning Styles
New session. We’re on Learning Styles now. We’re taking a look at the different preferences that people have when they’re learning, such as learners who prefer sound vs. those who prefer quiet, those...
View ArticleS.M.A.R.T.: Wellness and NeuroTechnology
Time to boogie on down the road. Next stop is Wellness. She started off saying that this section was just put in to remind us that as much as we need to take care of our students, we also need to take...
View ArticleS.M.A.R.T.: Sweet Sensation
New day, new session. This time we are discussing Sensation: Tactile-Vestibular-Proprioceptive. All three of these systems work together and an dependent on each other. Sensation is how our bodies...
View ArticleS.M.A.R.T.: Can you Hear me now?
We’re on the Auditory system right now and we started off with an appropriate example. Loud music playing, the teacher welcoming students back from recess, telling them to take out a worksheet,...
View ArticleS.M.A.R.T.: Hemisphere Specific Auditory Stimulation
Can you think of a more catchy title than that? Sounds like this next session is going be introducing activities to target individual auditory systems. Here we go! Auditory processing refers to the...
View ArticleS.M.A.R.T.: Seeing is believing
We’re on the vision section of the workshop right now and I missed a bit of the beginning due to the last entry. However, it did tie in to what I was writing. The presenter was talking about the...
View ArticleS.M.A.R.T.: Pink Floyd and a Lava Lamp
Did a quick session where we tried out the AVE (Audio-Visual Entrainment) for 15 minutes. The AVE is basically a set of glasses with a bunch of blinking white lights. The other piece of it is a set of...
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S.M.A.R.T.: My brain reduced to a bar graph
Buenos Dias, top of the morning! Welcome to my notes from day three of the S.M.A.R.T. workshop. After a very restless night (some BBQ from the previous evening didn’t quite agree with me), Charlotte...
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S.M.A.R.T.: Call me a cautious convert
After a few observations, we’re back in the classroom again. This time we’re learning how to actually take the S.M.A.R.T program and put it into the classroom setting. I’ve just had a spirited...
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S.M.A.R.T.: Montessori and sales pitches
A thought just occurred to me. It is incredible just how similar this program is to Montessori! The S.M.A.R.T. program has an incredible amount of maniuplaitves that are used in very specific ways....
View ArticlePodcast: Feeling not so S.MA.R.T.
Well, this started off as notes, which of course became a blog entry, but I realized that it really warranted a podcast as well. There aren’t really show notes, there’s basically an accompanying blog...
View ArticleS.M.A.R.T.: Some photos to share
Just uploaded the photos I took yesterday. Unfortunatley, since the students hadn’t turned in their release forms for the summer session yet I wasn’t allowed to take pictures of the children doing the...
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Use the Force to combat ADHD
A few years ago, I had the opportunity to try out an alternative to medication in the treatment of ADD/ADHD. The idea is that ADD causes some people to generate brainwaves in an abnormal pattern. When...
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