Almond shape clusters of neurons in both temporal lobes
What is the amygdale
100
Federal Law that has 6 principles that families of children with special needs are guaranteed special rights and services
What is IDEA ( Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
100
The greatest time of brain development when experiences stick to the brain in the most permanent ways!
What is Birth through two years of age?
100
Under a chronic stress response state, the PFC goes offline as the limbic system is activated with an oxygenated glucose blood flow!
How does adversity affect the brain's ability to learn
100
Regulation and Relationship
What are the two ways we need to address pain based behaviors in the classroom and actually with all our students?
200
Seahorse structure that is responsible for short term memory and can be damaged under stress
What is the hippocampus
200
Every student identified / classified with one of the 13 areas under federal law has one of these that must be followed
What is an IEP? Individual Education Program
200
The brain's second greatest time of development when 50% of the gray matter is being pruned away
What is the adolescent brain ( 10-15)
200
Adversity can be social rejection, humiliation , poverty, lack of sleep, nutritious food, neglect, divorce, addiction, mental illness, domestic violence, etc.
What is adversity and can you give three or four examples of ACE's?
200
Bell Work, morning meeting and when interest has been lost!
WHen are the best times to implement brain aligned strategies in the classroom?
300
one way to dampen the stress response in our classrooms
What is breathing
300
As a general education teacher , you are considered this type of teacher with students who have been identified with an exceptional need who come to you for instruction?
What is the teacher of service?
300
The brain develops from back to front and from the inside out through experiences
How does the brain develop and what develops the brain?
300
Hippocampus dendrites wither away causing cell death affeting a child or adolescent's ability to remember!
What part of the brain is greatly affected by the ongoing chronic stress and how does this chronic adversity affect this part?
300
Brain intervals help the brain to pay attention to novelty and wake up to new information!
What are brain intervals and why are they important?
400
The stress response system in our bodies that develops through childhood and adolescence just like the brain and can be damaged or reprogram how we experience stress for a lifetime
What is the HPA axis
400
a “disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or to do mathematical calculations.
What is a specific learning disability?
400
The PFC finishes developing in our late 20's or early 30's and this is the last part of the brain to develop and where executive functions are held.
Emotional regulation, sustained attention, working memory, problem solving and goal setting
What is the last part of the brain to develop and what is it called? When does it finish developing and why is this area so important? Can you name three or four functions from this area that as educators we need to know?
400
Anxiety 27-30%
What is the new learning disability in our country today and what portion of students in a regular classroom are affected?
400
teaching students about their neuro-anatomy, yoga, Focused Attention Practices, tapping, activities that alert the brain to novelty?
What are example of mindful brain aligned strategies we discussed this semester and why are they are important
500
a strategy using breath and movement that students need to regulate emotion and focused
What is a focused attention practice?
500
This is Indiana's state special education law
What is Article 7?
500
Neuroplasticity
riding a bike
What do we call brain changes that occur from experiences that change the brain functionally and structurally?
Give an example
500
Right Hemisphere through visual images, implicit memory and emotion!
Where is adversity held in the brain and how is it held?
500
Stories, questions, Dual brain sheet, take your order, emotions in learning, identifying emotional triggers
What are three specific strategies we have discussed that help students to calm down and regulate ( priming the brain for learning)?