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NTCOB "Changing Education One Brain at a TIme"
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NTCOB "Changing Education One Brain at a TIme"
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Anxiety Reduction & Test Preparation
Test anxiety is an overactive, often unconscious threat-response that is triggered by the act of testing.
It affects about 30% or more of students, with the most severe test anxiety affecting about 15-20% of students. If not addressed, test anxiety can lead to lower test scores and poor grades.
Students will learn techniques to combat test anxiety. Studies have shown that teenagers and young adults do not get the sleep needed to adequately refresh their brain for learning and retaining information.
Our Executive Function techniques are aimed at optimizing each students learning experience.
In this way there is the greatest potential for students to improve their learning outcomes, develop into purposeful, creative and autonomous learners, not just for a test, a class, but for lifelong learning.
Executive Function can be thought of as the brain’s CEO. Its job is to orchestrate the smooth and efficient functioning of information processing.
Primary brain connections go through the prefrontal cortex and are important for complex problem solving, planning and organization, time management & prioritizing, self-monitoring & attention shifting, working memory and cognitive flexibility and emotional regulation
(frustration) test-anxiety, maintaining motivation (persistence)
Building new neural connections can take advantage of the brain’s neuro-plasticity to overcome obstacles.