Core principles directing brain-based education are:
1. The brain is a parallel processor. It can perform several activities at once.
2. The brain perceives whole and parts simultaneously.
3. Information is stored in multiple areas of the brain and is retrieved through multiple
memory and neural pathways.
4. Learning engages the whole body. All learning is mind-body: movement, foods, attention
cycles, and chemicals modulate learning.
5. Humans’ search for meaning is innate.
6. The search for meaning comes through patterning.
7. Emotions are critical to patterning, and drive our attention, meaning and memory.
8. Meaning is more important than just information.
9. Learning involves focused attention and peripheral perception.
10. We have two types of memory: spatial and rote.
11. We understand best when facts are embedded in natural spatial memory.
12. The brain is social. It develops better in concert with other brains.
13. Complex learning is enhanced by challenge and inhibited by stress.
14. Every brain in uniquely organized.
15. Learning is developmental. (Caine)