The Neuroscience behind emotions and learning

This CPD Training is all about emotions and learning including the neuroscience behind climate, stress and motivation. It has been created to develop staff awareness of the neuroscience behind learning in the everyday classroom environment.

The key objectives are:

To understand what neuroscientists and psychologists mean specifically by the term emotion and mood and how this has an impact on learning
To be able to understand stress response and recognise the effect that this has on learning
To be aware of the methods that can be used to change classroom climate
To understand that neuroscience underpins motivation and how this can be utilised to support all students in either primary or secondary setting

Written by Katie Lane: SENDCO and Mental Health Lead at Outwood Junior Academy Brumby.

Emotions and Learning Intro.mp4

Emotions and Learning intro

Introduction and overview of this CPD training on emotions and learning. Under this umbrella are a number of smaller units which together will create a deeper understanding of how emotion and learning closely link.

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Emotions and Learning: Part 1

In Part One we look at mood and emotion and begin to gain a deeper insight into what this actually means for our pupils. Everybody has an understanding of what mood and emotion is to some level but looking more closely at the human brain will begin to explain the reasons why children behave in the way that they do.

Emotions and learning Part 2.mp4

Emotions and Learning: Part 2

In this section of the training we will look more closely at the neuroscience of emotion. One particular brain region implicated in emotion is a structure called the amygdala which is part of the limbic system

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Emotions and Learning: Part 3

External factors that may have an effect on mood and emotion. There are a number of factors that can affect how learners feel in the short term of an emotional response and in the longer term with changes to their mood. These include factors like personality which are intrinsic to the individual as well as factors that are external to them.

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Emotions and Learning: Part 4

Manipulating mood in the classroom. There’s not much you can do about the days of the week, when the school opens or the hours that we teach. However, we can take advantage of a shift in mood pattern when teaching.

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Emotions and Learning: Part 5

The body under stress and its responses. In Part 5 we focus on what happens when we are stressed and how this has an impact on learning.

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Emotions and Learning: Part 6

Factors affecting the impact of stress. Whether stress has a positive or negative effect on learning depends on the relationship of the stress to the learning task.

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Emotions and Learning: Part 7

Managing stress in the classroom. There are three key areas that will help stress levels stay at an appropriate level within a classroom environment. These are: environmental factors, teacher training and people training.

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Emotions and Learning: Part 8

Motivation in the classroom. People use the term motivation in many different ways. We can be motivated to work or motivated by something. In the context of motivation to learn we focus on the the specific conditions that motivate pupils to engage in learning behaviours.

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