Neuroscience and Transformational Education | Teacher's Desk with Paulo Jobim (Ep. 216)
About this episode
Paulo Jobim discusses the intersection of neuroscience and transformational education, emphasizing the importance of emotional connection and the synchronization of teachers' and students' brains.
Paulo Jobim returns to explore what neuroscience reveals about transformational education and why it affirms what Christian educators have always believed — from the way teachers' and students' brains synchronize during genuine connection, to the role of emotional intelligence and novelty in learning. This conversation will give teachers both a richer vocabulary for what they already practice and fresh encouragement that the work of Christian education is written into the way God made us. If you want to see your classroom through the lens of both Scripture and science, this is the episode for you. Listen to Paulo's first episode, Episode 70: Neuroscience and Belief "Christ is living in me, and I live my life, but I can see reality through the eyes of Christ." "We talk about Christ, but we live like Christ as well, and in the classroom, this is very important because this identification that the students have in teachers leads to credibility and intellectual humility." "Emotional connection and knowing each other [...] neuroscience points out that these are very important in education." "There is a kind of synchronization between school teachers' brains when they are teaching or…
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