Teachers learn ways to keep students’ attention, but are brain claims valid?
Chris Biffle, the creator of Whole Brain Teaching leads a conference of 500 teachers and administrators from as far away as Japan at the Barrette Business and Community Center on the campus of Walsh University Wednesday. Gesturing and repetition are used in Biffle's Whole Brain Teaching technique. (Karen Schiely /Akron Beacon Journal)
Participants in the Midwest Conference on Whole Brain Teaching gesture and repeat a lesson lead by Whole Brain Teaching's creator Chris Biffle at the Barrette Business and Community Center on the campus of Walsh University Wednesday. Five hundred teachers and administrators from as far away as Japan participated in the event.(Karen Schiely /Akron Beacon Journal)
Dale Sharpe, a dean at Arlington High School in Indianapolis, Indiana and Angela Stewart, a teacher at Tindley Preparatory Academy in Indianapolis participate in a learning exercise during the Midwest Conference on Whole Brain Teaching at the Barrette Business and Community Center on the campus of Walsh University Wednesday. (Karen Schiely /Akron Beacon Journal)
Chris Biffle, the creator of Whole Brain Teaching leads a conference of 500 teachers and administrators from as far away as Japan at the Barrette Business and Community Center on the campus of Walsh University Wednesday. Gesturing and repetition are used in Biffle's Whole Brain Teaching technique. (Karen Schiely /Akron Beacon Journal)
Chris Biffle, the creator of Whole Brain Teaching leads a conference of 500 teachers and administrators from as far away as Japan at the Barrette Business and Community Center on the campus of Walsh University Wednesday. Gesturing and repetition are used in Biffle's Whole Brain Teaching technique. (Karen Schiely /Akron Beacon Journal)
