How does neuroscience make a change in pedagogy

Neuroscience is the study of the brain and nervous system, and how they affect behavior, cognition, and emotions. Pedagogy is the art and science of teaching and learning. Neuroscience and pedagogy can be combined to form educational neuroscience, which is the discipline that brings the current research on how the brain learns, behaves, and relates to instructional practices in the classroom.

Some of the pros of utilizing neuroscience in modern pedagogy are:

• Neuroscience can provide teachers with neuroscience principles that can help them understand how students learn, remember, pay attention, and relate to others.

• Neuroscience can help teachers distinguish among pedagogical choices, plan lessons, guide in-the-moment classroom decisions, and inform their views of students.

• Neuroscience can help teachers develop theoretical coherence in their understandings of learning and pedagogy, and move away from didactic forms of instruction and neuromyths.

• Neuroscience can help teachers create coherent student learning experiences that use multiple modalities, activate prior knowledge, foster deep processing, and promote metacognition.

• Neuroscience can help teachers recognize the importance of student agency for engaging them in the learning process and offer explanations that affirm known practices or help justify exploring untried techniques.