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Travelling Scholar Workshop Dr Michael Nagel

MyBrain@MiddleYears.com
This one day workshop, facilitated by Dr Michael Nagel, is intended for teachers, school leaders and all those interested in understanding the minds of middle years students. The workshop will look at many aspects of neurological development including the power of emotion in learning, motivation in teenagers, gender differences in learning and the impact of technology on 21st century learners. Each session will be interactive and provide opportunities for questions and discussions.

Workshop outline
0830 0900-1030 Registration open Out of their minds: Understanding the developing brain!

This session will explore neurological development in children in a user friendly and pragmatic fashion. It will focus on the new discipline of neuroeducation with emphasis on providing insights into the latest research related to what is happening in the minds of students as they progress through school and how to best engage with those minds. 1030-1100 1100-1230 Morning tea Why gender matters! This session explores learning and behavioural differences amongst and between boys and girls. The intent is to provide participants with the latest insights into this fascinating and often controversial area of research while also offering practical ideas for enhancing the classroom and whole school environment. 1230-1330 1330-1500 Lunch iPod therefore I am: Adolescent learning and motivation in the 21st century! This session provides an opportunity to take ideas from the previous sessions and explore them in the context of how adolescents learn and what drives them to do so. The impact of ICTs on learning and emotional well-being provides an overall context for understanding contemporary insights into attention, concentration, memory and motivation. 1500 Workshop close

Dr Michael Nagel
Associate Professor Michael C Nagel is an educator, motivator, researcher, author, mentor and parent. Over the last three decades he has worked with children on three continents as a teacher and behaviour specialist. Currently Dr Nagel researches and teaches at the University of the Sunshine Coast in the areas of cognition and learning, human development, educational psychology and human behaviour. He has published widely in the areas of neurological development in children and is the author of Boys-Stir-Us: Working WITH the Hidden Nature of Boys and Its A Girl Thing. This year, these volumes are to be complimented with two new books that focus on early brain development and learning. Dr Nagels insights, linking neuroscience and education, have been well received by parents and educators alike and praised for linking theory with the everyday realities of raising and working with children. Dr Nagel is also a member of the prestigious International Neuropsychological Society and a feature writer for the Child series of magazines which offers parenting advice to more than one million Australian readers. When he is not busy professionally, he spends his time learning the important lessons of childhood and life from his own children, Madeline and Harrison.

Workshop Locations
Locations Brisbane Gold Coast Toowoomba Date Monday, 5 March Thursday, 8 March Friday, 9 March Venue Riverglenn, Indooroopilly Aquinas College, Ashmore Christian Outreach College, Toowoomba

Sydney Canberra Newcastle Sunshine Coast Perth Bundaberg/ Fraser Coast Coffs Harbour Rockhampton Darwin Adelaide Melbourne Hobart

Thursday, 15 March Ravenswood School for Girls, Gordon Friday, 16 March Monday, 19 March Friday, 23 March Namadgi School Wallsend High School Nambour Christian College

Saturday, 31 March Mt Lawley Senior High School Thursday, 26 April Friday, 27 April Thursday, 3 May Tuesday, 8 May Tuesday, 22 May Wednesday, 23 May Friday, 25 May St Lukes Anglican School, Bundaberg Bishop Druitt College, Coffs Harbour Heights College O'Loughlin Catholic College, Karama Christian Brothers College, Wakefield St Brighton Grammar School, Rosstrevor Campus TBC

Mackay

Monday, 28 May

TBC

Townsville

Tuesday, 29 May

Thuringowa State High School, Townsville

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