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| The premise of my research, speeches and workshops over the past three decades has been based on the question, "If it's your job to develop the mind, shouldn't you know how the brain works?" |
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Kenneth Wesson works as a keynote speaker and educational consultant for pre-school through university-level institutions and organizations. He speaks throughout the world on the neuroscience of learning and methods for creating classrooms and learning environments that are "brain-considerate." |
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| Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Boston University, UC Santa Barbara, and the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives are sponsoring two conferences on Learning and the Brain. The nation's most prominent contemporary authors, speakers and researchers in Neuroscience will headline these conferences. The November 2006 confere nce will take place in Boston, while the February 2007 conference will be in San Francisco, CA. The conference brings K-12 educators, neuropsychologists and clinicians together to discuss the latest brain research on learning, language and reading, memory, sex differences, stress, cognitive, emotional and social development and on learning disorders such as ADHD, dyslexia, autism and bipolar disorders. Many prestigious neuroscientists and researchers are participating including Robert Sapolsky, Michael Gazzaniga, James McGaugh, Patricia Kuhl, Kay Redfield Jaminson, Daniel Siegel, Ross Thompson, Larry Cahill, Stephen Hinshaw, Kenneth Wesson, Linda Darling-Hammond, and many others. On Feb. 16th, Wesson will deliver the opening keynote address on "The Brain-considerate Classroom of the Future" and neuroscience of learning in San Francisco. http://www.edupr.com/brain16.html As educators and parents become more cognizant of the impact they have on the growing brain, they often begin asking, "How does the human brain work and what can I do to nurture its covert operations?" This intriguing centuries-old question is still an enormous mystery to most of us, but there are several fascinating sub-questions whose individual answers can aid in piecing together some of the constituent keys to constructing an answer to our important original question.
In years past, we would often engaged in a lengthy and detailed discourse examining the issues of learning, knowledge acquisition and child development. During those conversations, we deliberately avoided even mentioning the human brain as the primary focus of learning activities or as the organ that was actually orchestrating every aspect of these cognitive events, although the role of the brain has always genuinely deserved a centerpiece status in these examinations. No conversation about learning should ever take place without some portion of that discourse devoted to a discussion about how the human brain "works." A Brief Bio |
Kenneth Wesson delivers keynote addresses on the neuroscience of learning for educational organizations and institutions throughout the United States and overseas. The audiences range from early childhood specialists to college and university administrators and faculty members. His recent international audiences have included the educators and top administrators from South America, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Northern Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Wesson regularly addresses American and international educational associations, counseling associations, school districts and civic organizations, as well as parenting organizations throughout the United States on establishing "brain-considerate" learning environments. In addition to his speeches on the neuroscience of learning, Wesson also lectures on the subjects of early brain development, emotional intelligence, contextual learning, diversity in learning, design and engineering, and curriculum development. He is also asked frequently to serve as an expert witness in court cases involving brain trauma and memory.|
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