Research now shows that the brain is constantly changing and growing throughout our lives. It changes in the number of connections. Those are affected by experiences we have and are the key to our intelligence. This is different to the belief of a few years ago. Then they believed the brain was hardwired and it only grew till we hit age 21 and then it stopped growing. They believed if it got injured or burnt out it was gone. This information is being tossed out as the new info is adopted. Now not every brain develops at the same rate. This can delay some people in gaining the skills to do well in school. Each brain feeds, it loves to be stimulated. The brain can learn and grow throughout life; it can move past the symptoms of ADHD if properly stimulated, and given the correct experiences and exercised. This is so different from the thoughts that govern the, we must drug those outside of the curve, mentality.

So there are two things that make up how our brain works. The first is your genes and they are the blueprint. They decide how many brain cells and influence the number of connections, when they are developed, and if they develop with chronological age. Then everything else including the number of connections is based on experience and learning. The use and stimulation of the brain is key to intelligence and success in the education experience. We have little ability to change the development of the brain. But that is such a small part. We have total ability to change the experiences and stimulation we provide the brain. These make a huge difference on how the brain works.

Because of the things we have learned we now know that sensory-rich exercises targeted to the weak pathways will greatly expand connections which will enlarge the brain's handling of information. Let’s say you want to increase your muscle tone and slim your  body. You would not be successful if you just do push ups, nor if you just did squats. You would do many different exercises, to be successful they would use all muscle groups. As we exercise the brain we don’t want to just focus on one weakness we want to strengthen all of our brain's weaknesses to improve learning.

Each of us have a specific way of  picking up information. Some do quite well from lectures because they are auditory learners. Others are more visual; they like reading and charts, things they can see. Then there are those that are kinesthetic. They are hands on and very active type pupils. The thing to realize is that teachers are going to teach to their preferred learning type. Now there are some great teachers out there who use all three auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. This is the highest form of teaching. Using all of the modalities of teaching.

The next process that we go through to learn is when we internalize the information. Most educators or the general public do not understand how this happens. Some people see pictures in their mind of how the thing they are learning about goes. Those pictures actually create the ability to internalize the info. If you think about a phone number that you have memorized maybe you see the numbers in your head. Maybe you see a keypad and see the pattern being dialed. Maybe you have the phone number set to a rhythmic sequence of sounds and that is what plays through your head each time you dial the number.

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