Neuroscience 101: Getting Started

Hello, I'm Michael. Michael Hewitt Gleeson. I'm a cognitive neuroscientist and founder of the School of Thinking. About 40 years ago, which is to get thinking taught and to get lateral thinking taught and to get it put into schools, in the curriculum and so on. My current mission in the school is to get neuroscience taught in primary schools in Australia, which is just a basic understanding of how the brain works. And I think that not only teachers are interested, but also students would be very interested in that. And that's what this course is about. It's based on two of my recent books, neuroscience 101 and The Fourth Brain.

Yes! Our courses are mapped to the Australian Professional Teacher Standards (AITSL), and your completion can be logged as elective PD hours with your state's teaching regulatory authority. To do this, grab your certificate of completion from your personal dashboard once the course is complete.

This course is expected to take between 30 to 45 minutes. Perfect for after work or during a spare period. You will have ongoing access via your user dashboard.

You will get a Cool.org certificate when you finish to prove that you have completed this course. You can access this certificate (and your course progress!) anytime via your personal dashboard.

This course is mapped to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

• 1.1 Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students
• 1.2 Understand how students learn

This course is designed in consultation with teachers, principals, psychologists, counsellors, scientists, and all manner of experts in the education field.

Cool.org's curriculum team continually reviews and refines our resources to be in line with changes to the Australian Curriculum and best educational practice, so you can be sure your learning is at the cutting edge of education theory.