An enriched educational environment comes from matching teaching practice to the nature of how the brain learns. Basically, it learns in six ways:
a. by associating—e.g., in sensory cortex; it links new information to existing knowledge; it uses power of personal associations
(cf. difference between learning as information-processing and as transformation)
b. by shaping associations into patterns (sometimes forcing patterns that do not exist?)
c. by making meaning
d. through emotions (the limbic system works as a relevance-detector)
e. through the body
f. mostly beneath the level of awareness
(personal notes from “Teaching to the Teenage Brain” conference leader, Gessner Geyer, 25 July 2005, Sierra Nevada Mountains)
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