Teaching with the Brain in Mind Chapter 5 Emotional States PDF

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Teaching with the Brain in Mind: Chapter 5 Emotional States Complete this Reading Guide and present as your “Ticket in the Door” Chapter 5 makes the case that emotions have an important and rightful place in learning and in schools.

Mind and emotions are __not__ separate. What we __feel___ is real even if it is only to us and no one else. Three major topics addressed: 1. Distribution: Emotions involve many brain areas including areas also involved in cognitive functions. 2. Potency: Emotional states influence all life functions. 3. Opportunity: We can influence emotional states in learners.

Emotions ___drive______ attention, creates ____meaning________, and has their own ___memory________ pathways. Emotions regulate______behaviors_____ and help us ____organize___ the world around us. Justify how emotions assist in learning (provide 3 examples): 1. Constitute the passion of learning 2. Evoke necessary empathy, support, or fear 3. Improve social problem solving

Explain the difference in “built-in” biologically-based emotions and the casual, fleeting life experiences called states. Not all states are emotional but all emotions are states. We feel pain, soreness.. Good learning does not avoid emotions, it ______embraces____ emotions. Explain the four emotional states experienced in a typical classroom: Fear/Threat: During this phase there’s 3 things we do fight, try to escape, and freeze

Joy/Pleasure: In this phase we use a different part of our brains

Sadness/Disappointment: This is filled in the lower part of the brain. This section claims that its okay for you students to know you are disappointed in them.

Anticipation/Curiosity: Increases in the activity of the attentional areas of the brain

How will you influence the emotional states of your students (provide two)? They are ubiquitous. They are connected

Select 3 practical suggestions you will use in your future classroom and justify your selection. How does each of the selected suggestions relate to risk, urgency, excitement and pleasure?...