Learning Environments
Credential Verification
Issue date: October 29, 2024
ID: b4d53eec-332c-423b-8d78-23e403b4b3d5
Issued by
The Center for Transformative Teaching & Learning (CTTL)
The CTTL is the leading pre-collegiate, school-based research center in the United States that designs and delivers professional learning programming centered in Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) science to partner schools around the world.
Type
Course
Level
Foundational
Format
Online
Duration
8 hours
Description
The three Neuroteach Global micro-courses included in Track are Teachers as Brain Changers, Classroom Culture, and Classroom Design. By completing these three micro-courses, learners are prepared to:
• Embrace the concept of neuroplasticity, and that all educators are brain changers
• Recognize ‘neuromyths’ that may appear in your teaching practice and address them
• Identify any implicit biases based on race, gender, or other identifiers that may be affecting your teaching practices
• Understand the impact the classroom environment has on working memory and attention
• Design a classroom that facilitates and tells the story of the learning that happens there, and reflects the students’ voice
• Understand how to create more space for students to visually show their thinking
• Describe the relationship between emotion and cognition Strategically implement the use of positive emotion in the learning environment
• Understand that social belonging and academic belonging are different and manage both for students
• Depersonalize and normalize struggle, so students can see their successes and challenges as separate from stereotypes