How can students learn easily? Neuroscience may have the answer.

 The question facing many educators is "How can my students learn easily?" 

Dr. Marial Hardiman may have the answer. With the principles of neuroscience in mind, Dr. Mariale Hardiman, a former school principal and who is now professor at Johns Hopkins, developed a teaching framework designed to help teachers, teach the way the brain learns. She recommended that if educators teach the learners based on the process that the brain learns, then learning can be greatly enhanced. The author wrote the following steps in teaching based on how the brain learns: (1) establish the emotional climate for learning, (2) creating the physical learning environment, (3) designing the learning experience, (4) teaching for mastery, (5) teaching for the extension, and (6) evaluating learning.  The author further explained that “learning only occurs when the student can connect new information to old information." Recently, Eric Jensen and Liesl McConchie wrote a book entitled "Brain-Based Learning: Teaching the Way Students Really Learn (2020)" which explores the role of neuroscience in learning. 

(I presented this study at the 3rd Annual Teaching and Learning Conference held at Sohar University, Sohar City, Oman on September 14, 2017.)