Returning Guest Dr. David A. Sousa on ”What’s NEW with the 6th Edition of How the Brain Learns”

<p>Welcome back to the Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning podcast, episode #197 with a special returning guest, David A Sousa, who we first spoke with back in August 2020 on episode #78<a href='#_edn1'>[i]</a>.</p> <p>Click here to watch this interview on YouTube <a href='https://youtu.be/148InRAxFts'>https://youtu.be/148InRAxFts</a></p> <p>On this episode you will learn:</p> <p>✔︎ What's new with the 6th edition of Dr. David Sousa's "How the Brain Learns"</p> <ul>The importance of the cognitive component of social-emotional learning The importance of student engagement, especially through academic teams Connections between Bloom’s Taxonomy and current instructional strategies, such as teaming and project/maker learning Strategies that ALL teachers can implement to reduce stress in the classroom and improve student learning/engagement. What happens in the brain when we are learning something new. How to make practice PERMANENT and transfer knowledge into memory. What we can learn from the specialized areas of the brain How the science of reading can help us as teachers with the learning process </ul> <p>I’m thrilled to have the chance to speak with David Sousa again, as It was David Sousa’s <em>How the Brain Learns book Series</em><a href='#_edn2'>[ii]</a>  that is now in its 6th Edition (that includes How the Brain Learns, How the Brain Learns to Read, How the Gifted Brain Learns, and How the Special Needs Brain Learns) that I was given by an educator who put me on the path of helping others to understand how learning occurs in the brain. When reading this series, I was told from other respected colleagues that this book series is one that every educator should read, and after our first interview, was contacted from educators all over the country (and world) with how helpful this series has been for them. How the Brain Leans has helped me as a parent to understand how my own children learn (specifically with reading) and gave me more understanding and patience to help put i