Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Today I shared a good laugh with my friend and knowledge expert, Bill Belew who always has some interesting things to say about current colleges at The Biz of Knowledge. I was thrilled to develop an Online course with Robyn McMaster,  in collaboration with Minda and Kevin Hager for launch this fall at The University of Rio Grande. In creating the graduate course, we asked, “How can one course excite you, stretch topics you care about into learning adventures to celebrate and meet State Standards at the same time?”

This course, Learning and Assessment through MITA Celebrations ... uses brain based practices and Multiple Intelligence approaches to help participants ... create authentic projects and solve problems using course content.

Teachers in the Master Degree program,  are encouraged in this new course … to draw from their personal and cultural experiences and to share in others’ unique differences.

It starts: on Tuesday, September 5, and ends: Monday, October 16 and I’ll keep you posted about the exciting results we expect.

The course draws from my 2005 book, MI Strategies in the Classroom and Beyond: Roundtable Learning and  my 1999 book,  Student Assessment that Works: A Practical Approach. It also includes lessons from many global settings and from this  blog, with tips and strategies that master teachers can transfer to their secondary school and university learning environments! This course has been in the making for years – but it’s almost here and I am excited to help teachers tap more into the extravagance of the human brain, than they did in boring lectures we all have endured. 

Check for more details.  What do you think?