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Sticky Learning: How Neuroscience Supports Teaching that’s Remembered is unavailable, but you can change that!

In spite of new classroom technologies, many seminary professors rely solely on auditory methods. By the end of a course, a student may have gained some knowledge and skill, but they might not have embedded what they’ve learned into their long-term memories. Elementary and secondary education teachers have worked with neuroscientists to enhance students’ learning and memory with new classroom...

Research on the adolescent brain indicates that the prefrontal lobe, responsible for executive functions, impulse control, and consequential thinking, may not be fully developed in adolescents. Many of us in higher education, however, as well as in the church and even in our own families, see characteristics of adolescent thinking and processing in some of the young adults with whom we work. Because we work in an environment where calling and vocation are part of our institutional and theological
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