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Mindfulness and Your Brain, Your Life Do you know your brain can be “evolved” if you “train” it every day? At the American School of Bangkok Green Valley, we value strategies that can support our students’ learning as we aim for the holistic development of every student. It was thus our honor to invite Dr. Jared C. Horvath to help us learn how to support our students with specific strategies that enhance their learning. Dr. Horvath is a neuroscientist, educator, and author of the International Best-Seller “Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick”. He has conducted research and lectured at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, the University of Melbourne, and over 200 schools internationally. He currently serves as Director of LME Global, a team or academics and researchers dedicated to bringing the latest brain and behavioral research to teachers, students, and parents alike.
Dr. Horvath presented three workshops during his visit: “Your Brain, Your Life”, “Is My Teenager Crazy?”, and “Stop Talking, Start Influencing” . The workshops helped the participants understand how we can take control of our thinking and learning, explore brain functions, understand how the brain develops, and become more aware of all the changes we go through during early childhood and adolescence. As teenagers think differently than adults these workshops gave us insight on how we can support them academically, emotionally, and cognitively. Dr. Horvath’s main idea of how we can help students learn more efficiently is to understand how the human brain builds memories from the short to long term. Research shows that our memory declines by 20-25% after just two days of receiving information. To avoid this dramatic drop we need to apply a strategy called ‘spacing’. As long as you regularly revisit and review ideas from what you originally learned you can boost your memory create capacity to create longer lasting and more impactful memories of the content. By Dr. Shira Teng (Li-Wen Lai) International Projects Director The American School of Bangkok Green Valley
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Winter 2019 Issue 17
