Emotional Health in the Learning Environment: Your Toolkit for Success Lessons 2A & 2B

Now that you understand the biology behind the Affective Domain - why the limbic system is critical in permitting a person to assmiilate new knowledge - we can move on to the nine most common emotional triggers that slam down that toll booth and block the pathways so that information can be processed in the brain!

How do we open those pathways? How do we send the limbic system positive messages? Well - through techniques and strategies that are easily added to our planning. If our students' are comfortable and feel safe in the learning environment, their brains literally let them learn more fluidly.

I bet you can't wait to begin learning what the emotional triggers are and how to counteract them, right? Well let's begin!!! When you're finished with this lesson you're going to feel so much more powerful and proactive in the classroom and you're going to immediately see results in your students' attitudes towards learning.

In this lesson, we'll address these three common emotional triggers that block learning:

• anxiety
• low self-confidence
• frustration/dissatistfaction

Let's go!

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