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Teaching students that there are several different approaches to solving problems can help them gain flexibility in their thinking, and a better understanding of the problem which can enhance problem solving.

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To teach an adolescent brain as it is developing requires the teacher to create an emotional connection to the content for their students to strengthen their Limbic system.  This can happen by providing the students an opportunity to be social.  In this video, the students created videos teaching the content to their peers.  By creating videos, the students were also taking ownership of their own learning.

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During these formative brain development years teachers need to provide students opportunities to experience and witness a variety of solutions for problem solving.  This pictorial representation demonstrates how the brain can see one image, disengage, and attempt to see the the other image. This process is developing the frontal lobes of the brain as it is developing strong connections and new learning, while pruning away unnecessary connections.

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This article moves through the true art of teaching. As teachers, we struggle to teach ALL our students. The one common thread our students share is their brain and how it is developing. This teacher shares his journey of teaching, both his successes and the complexity of the process he goes through over several years and different aged students to teach an abstract concept to his students.

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The most important learning I took away from this article is that there are so many factors to consider and ultimately he discovered a few very important aspects to teaching a complex idea:
1. Discovery...students are engaged  in learning and take ownership.
2. Adolescents are different than adults. They do not learn as effectively when placed in a situation which they deem embarrassing.
3. When the teacher allowed the students to explore the concept creatively and make it personal to them, and less about the technical use of the camera....magic happened!

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The brain during adolescence is going through a huge growth of gray matter. This is important as the brain is developing experiences and synapses while towards the end of adolescents the brain is pruning the synapses that are unnecessary.

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"And yet this is a period of life where the brain is particularly adaptable and malleable it is a fantastic opportunity for learning and creativity."
~Sarah-Jayne Blakemore at TEDGlobal 2012

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I agree that the traditional seating arrangements need a serious update. I find it interesting that in our newest schools where the architecture was designed to incorporate a more modern approach to classrooms and how we use them, they still then went and put in the same old desk and chair set up.