Yvette Larsson is an inspiring IB educator and innovator in education and learning. Having grown up in Swedish Lapland, she has a deep affiliation with nature and knows how outdoors foster creativity, resilience, and entrepreneurial spirit with first-hand experiences 🌄🏞️🌌. Having a curious mind towards the world and cultures, she traveled a lot with a great interest in languages, art, nature, and what it means to be human, which contributes to her communication skills and adaptability 🚆🧳🖼️.
Her being with rich cognitive, spiritual, social, and physical experiences also sheds light on what she wants to achieve in the world: boosting human potential and creating trusting relationships to foster performance and well-being. Such a leader! Her scientific base is within applied neuroscience🧠.
In this interview, we talked about what applied neuroscience is, how it can contribute to education, and how it can be integrated into learning environments with real-life examples. Five brainy books that Yvette loves are the bonus 🤩!
Please turn your reader mode on and prepare yourself to delve into the beautiful world of neuroscience and education.
Thank you for reading to this point! I believe that even a very fundamental understanding of applied neuroscience equips us with a mindset to create loving and caring environments where everyone feels seen and heard, paving the way to build meaningful relationships. It makes it easier to envision a culture that promotes individual and collective well-being, fostering trust and collaboration.
By understanding the relationship between the brain and behavior, we, teachers, can design our learning sessions, experiences, and environments accordingly to optimize our learners' flourishments on cognitive, mental, spiritual, physical, and social levels. Imagine what might happen if these learners create a domino effect in their surroundings, and on their nows and futures, as well as on their pasts, having a more clear understanding of why some specific behavior or pattern might have happened with the light of neuroscience.
Questions:
Do you integrate neuroscience into your classroom?
If yes, how?
Please share, and let's widen our domino effect with collaboration.
P.S: My wonderful blog guest, Yvette Larsson, is a Co-Founder of AHA where they run skill labs and hackathons for 21st-century learners. Their scientific base is - as you guess it - applied neuroscience, positive psychology, and EQ leadership (Please see the 1st link below).
Yvette and her friend Emily, host unboxED podcast in which they explore educational innovations with a passion and mission to shape the future of learning. They do this through insightful discussions with a range of guests from innovators to educators (Please see the 2nd link below).
Plus, she runs a book club. Unfortunately, it is offline. Fortunately, there is an Instagram account for the club (Please see the 3rd link below).
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