Educational Neuroscience to Empower Teachers and Students

This common ground suggests a future in which educational practice can be transformed by science, just as medical practice was transformed by science about a century ago.

Educators and schools around the world are increasingly using the knowledge, techniques, and programs developed from a new understanding of how our brains learn. They are applying neuroscience in their classrooms.

Why? As an educator, you might be asking yourself why would I do this in my school?

Here are some reasons why. Educational neuroscience can:

• Empower teachers with a new understanding about how students learn
• Help students with a range of learning difficulties
• Improve reading
• Deliver individualised learning for every student
• Improve overall school academic performance
• Build the learning capacity of each student, so they learn more easily
• Help teachers move closer to creating learning environments, rather than simply delivering  curriculum content
• Free teachers' time to teach and add higher value learning opportunities