PBS NewsHour

Teachers tap into brain science to boost learning

Clip: 07/01/2015 | 6m 25s

Research on the brain and how we think and act is influencing the way some teachers teach. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning Matters goes into a classroom where the instructor uses different methods to engage different parts of the students’ brains, then checks with a neuroscientist about whether that strategy actually works.

Aired: 07/01/15

Rating: NR

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