This is a great website that I have wanted to look into, but never found the time to explore. Within this website, it has a ton of free resources that go along with the idea of using the "Whole Brain Teaching" approach within a classroom. It has been proven successful with students in Kindergarten - College. This website not only provides resources on how to get started, but it also provides the "why" behind each of the seven core instructional techniques. After looking through this website, I realized I could easily implement a couple of the techniques, specifically the "Class! Yes!" and "Hands and Eyes!" as soon as Tuesday when we go back to school.
Another resource I found explained all the benefits of Whole Brain Teaching. Like the resource above, this website also explored the seven core techniques, but it could all be located in one spot in a quick, easy to read kind-of-way. Within this website, it also compared WBT to Understanding by Design and gave insights on how it is a best practice approach. Finally, it gave some potential challenges that could appear when using this within a classroom. I could apply this resource in my classroom by reading through the techniques provided and scaffolding my students by choosing a few to start with and continuously building off the techniques that have already been taught and practiced.
This resource links back to Edutopia, which has a ton of resources related to brain based learning as well as many other instructional strategies. Many of the articles found within this website explain how the brain learns. I came across multiple articles that provided ways to teach students about how their brain works. I can use this resource in my classroom by researching how the brain learns and then transferring that learning to my students by what I do on a daily basis.
