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Neuroscience 101: Why Teachers Rock

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Hello I'm Micheal, Micheal Hewitt Gleeson and this is an introduction to a series we've done on why teachers rock! And I love doing this because teachers do rock, because as a neuroscientist I know that teachers can change brains and that's a very clever trick indeed.

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Neuroscience 101: Why Teachers Rock

Neuroscience 101: Why Teachers Rock

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Introduction

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Teachers rock!

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Neuroscience reveals the real value of teachers

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What makes a great teacher

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The experience of military pedagogy

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How to teach neuroscience

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Western logic is excellent; but not enough

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Aristotelian thinking: Inside the box

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The Geddes Pipeline

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What is the #1 secret of success?

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Reflection

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Congratulations

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Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson is an Australian Vietnam Veteran, author, cognitive neuroscientist, and lecturer. He co-founded the School of Thinking in New York in 1979 with Edward de Bono. School of Thinking lessons are exported to over 43 countries every day and have reached over 80 million people worldwide since 1979. During his time living and consulting in New York, the United States government described Dr Hewitt Gleeson as a “national asset”.

Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson was honoured as a Melbourne Ambassador by the Premier of Victoria and appointed as a Visiting Academic Fellow in Innovation Thinking at LaTrobe University. He is also an advisor on Leadership and Learning to Melbourne Grammar School. Dr Hewitt-Gleeson’s School of Thinking has disseminated over half a billion lessons since 1979.

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