The Neuroscience Behind Motivation, Memory & Metacognition

How motivation, memory and metacognitive ability are often affected for children with learning disabilities.

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The Neuroscience Behind Motivation, Memory & Metacognition

What You Will Learn!

  • Outline 6 major demotivators to learning for children with learning difficulties
  • Discuss strategies to manage and remove demotivators
  • Specify memory issues exprienced by children with learning difficulties
  • Explain how to address these memory issues
  • Understand the link between sleep and memory
  • Outline four main components to metacognitive thinking
  • Discuss how these components affect learning from an adademic viewpoint
  • Put yourself in the mindset of a child with learning difficulties as a result of the "In Their Shoes" activity

Description

For children with learning difficulties, challenges in learning occur not only from lesson content, but also from neurological and  psychological brain immaturities and differences. As such, many of these  children have learning issues associated with what ReMinds terms the  “Triple M Challenges”. That is, Motivation, Memory and Metacognitive  Thinking. This program will explain and address these challenges. 

Motivation underpins learning for all of us throughout out lives. However, for children with learning difficulties, specific demotivators may affect learning psychologically even more than neurologically if not dealt with appropriately. These demotivators are discussed in this program and simple ways to reduce or avoid them for more productive learning outcomes.

In addition, teaching and instruction may be in vain if information is forgotten frequently due to problems with short term, working and long term memory. Discover how this is related to issues of storage and retrieval of information.  Furthermore, children with learning difficulties require on average 4 times more repetition of information in order to submit to long term memory. Hence, the question in formal education becomes not how can a child with learning difficulties learn required content (which they often can), but rather, how can they learn the content in the limited time provided with a fast moving content heavy curriculum and pace.

Metacognition relates to self awareness. This course will explain how delays in metacognitive thinking impact learning and academic performance. 

Who Should Attend!

  • Teachers, student teachers, other educators and parents of children with learning difficulties

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Tags

  • Memory
  • Motivation
  • Special Education

Subscribers

756

Lectures

18

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