Thinking back to classroom environments over your educational career, what made you feel uncomfortable or stressed? What distracted you? Students today, particularly those from impoverished communities, are often preoccupied with family issues, challenges with their peers, and even poor self-perceptions of their abilities. By effectively managing the emotional and physical environment, you can optimize conditions for learning for students who otherwise have tremendous difficulty focusing.

This week you will begin exploring the first two brain-targets of the Brain-Targeted Teaching Model®—Brain-Target One: Establishing the Emotional Climate for Learning, and Brain-Target Two: Creating the Physical Learning Environment. You will learn how, through these brain-targets, you can make your classroom environment more brain- and learner-friendly.

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