Brain Basics (19 - 20 November 09)

Mindful Integration of Brain, Body and Heart for Engaged Learning

Today's educators need all the knowledge and tools they can get to successfully engage all students. This interactive, hands-on workshop provides busy teachers with new knowledge and tools that can be used immediately to help what they teach to stick. This workshop is fast-paced, fun, and informative and has been presented to thousands of educators, consistently receiving great reviews.

Workshop participants will be able to know:

 • Techniques to keep students' brains in the optimal learning state.
 • The five essential elements of the brain-enriched environment.
 • Three quick, simple and effective ways to destress the brain.
 • Brain energizers to engage and enliven learning.
 • How specific movements organize the brain for learning.
 • The five memory pathways and how to engage them.
 • Understanding the role nutrition, hydration, exercise, and sleep in learning, memory and recall.
 • Why down-time is critically important to the learning cycle-- and how to get the most from it.
 • How to bring it all together in the classroom -- A model lesson.
 • The teen brain: A work in progress -- What every teacher needs to know. 
 • Simple, proven techniques for engaging the intelligence of the heart.
 • The importance of having a great time while learning!

 

Trainer's Profile

Tim Burns


An educator, author and presenter with a keen interest in human development, learning, and creativity -- and an enjoyable and engaging way of teaching about them. His background includes over thirty years of experience as classroom teacher, counselor, First Offender Program facilitator, adolescent and family drug-treatment program director, university instructor, and staff development specialist.

In addition to ten years of experience as classroom teacher in the public schools, Tim taught for four years at the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Studies Institute at the University of New Mexico and has, since 1986, taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses for Adams State College, Division of Extended Studies, Alamosa, Colorado.

Tim provides keynote addresses, presentations and professional development workshops, and over the years has worked with over two thousand public, private, and parochial schools, along with hundreds of youth-serving agencies and organizations throughout the United States, as well as Mexico, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Egypt, and Thailand.

Tim is the author of three books:  Our Children, Our Future; From Risk to Resiliency; and Anatomy of a Crisis: The Effects of Alcohol and Other Drugs on the Brain. In addition, he has authored several resource manuals on topics ranging from the role of movement in organizing brain development, to fostering resiliency and well-being in children. Tim's most recent offering is a twenty-two lesson curriculum entitled, Brain Gain/Brain Drain: Teaching Students to Build a Better Brain.

Tim is an award-winning artist and provided the illustrations for the book, WorldWords, by Victor La Cerva, M.D.  He holds a black-belt in Aikido, a modern Japanese martial art devoted to neutralizing aggression and redirecting conflict.

 

Venue & Time

The Grassroots' Club, 190 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 8, Singapore 568046
9 AM - 5PM

 

Fees & Registration

• Servicing Schools: $350

• Non - Servicing Schools: $400

  Servicing school: A school with support staff (TA, ASA, ICT Exec,etc) engaged from Educare and still in employment in November & December 2009

 

Application Procedure

1. Download & complete the application form and email  to programmes@educare.sg Principal’s signature will not be required if the application is sent via email. Note, all email application must be copied to the respective school Principal (unless the sender is the school Principal) otherwise; it will not be valid.
2. Alternatively, you could also fax the application form to 6297 7386 (Principal’s signature will be required).