May 7-9, 2015, Learning & the Brain Conference on "Educating World-Class Minds" at the Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel in New York City. The conference will take place on the second and third floors of the Sheraton NY Times Square hotel. 

Talk title:"World-Class Teacher Development: The Teaching Brain and School Reform." 
Date: Saturday, May 9th, 2015 
Time: 1:30PM - 2:35PM
Room Location: New York East (3rd Floor)
Book signing directly following talk!


Talk Description: While research on the nature and science of learning abounds, shockingly few insights into how and why humans teach have emerged—until now. This talk exposes the misguided, widely-held beliefs about teaching and unveils that teaching is in fact a cognitive evolutionary skill that develops in all humans over time.  Building from an accessible overview of how our brains learn, The Teaching Brain is a revolutionary new framework for teaching development in light of the new brain sciences; explains why we need teachers; and reveals what it actually takes to become a world-class teacher.

 

"Experienced teachers have a repertoire of choices, many of which would be indistinguishable from those available to their less experienced peers (or to observers). But experienced teachers know that timing is key and that minute differences are important for students and teaching relationships. This very complex process and interaction-based skills have been wonderfully described in The Teaching Brain, a fantastic new book by my colleague Vanessa Rodriguez."

Read the full blog post here:
http://www.shankerinstitute.org/blog/teaching-thinking-relationship

The Teaching Brain: Examining Teaching as a Dynamic System Using Cognitive, Physiologic, and Neurologic Tools

• In Event: 52.084 - Roundtable Session 18
  In Roundtable Session: 52.084-9 - Systems Thinking in Brain Research, Higher Education, and School and Workplace Design and Value
  
  

Sat, April 18, 2:45 to 4:15pm, Hyatt, East Tower - Purple Level, Riverside WestAbstractThis paper session proposes a new and transformative model of teaching as a developmental cognitive and emotional skill that is inherently based in human social interaction. Drawing parallels to our understanding of learning and teaching as a complex, interpersonal phenomenon, we have used Dynamic Systems Theory to explore the “teaching brain” with an innovative, multi-disciplinary research approach. We will share the design, implementation and analytic process of three studies, each in various stages of execution, which measured physiological and neurological markers as well as self-reported cognitive-emotional states during naturalistic teacher-student dyadic interactions. This work will create a new foundation for teacher-training programs and further our understanding of new online models of education that vary the levels of human face-to-face contact.

http://tinyurl.com/mnjzbxp

http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/the_teaching_brain_20150417

In a new blog post on the Staples Education Center website Vanessa was quoted in an article entitled "Why Mid-Year is a Great Time to Assess Your Teaching".  In it, her work on the Teaching Brain is used as encouragement for teachers to use self-reflection as a feedback tool to enhance their cognitive skill development.

November 21: 10:00-10:25 AM – Carolyn Dalgliesh, BA, Ellen B. Braaten, PhD, Randy Kulman, PhD and Vanessa Rodriguez MSEd, will be available to sign their books, (including their new books, The Sensory Child Gets Organized, Bright Kids Who Can’t Keep Up, Playing Smart in Digital World and The Teaching Brain) during the morning coffee break