The Basics of Neuroscience for Teachers

Join us as we chat about neuroscience and learning with Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson in this 5-part mini-series. Become better friends with the brain, both yours and your students', through inspiring and conversational videos, thinking tools and structured research questions.

Neuroscience for teachers

About Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson

Dr Michael Hewitt-Gleeson is the best-selling author of Software for Your Brain (1989). He is an Australian Vietnam veteran and cognitive neuroscientist, and he holds the world’s first PhD in Lateral Thinking (1980). Dr Hewitt-Gleeson co-founded the School of Thinking (schoolofthinking.org) in New York with Professor Edward de Bono in 1979.

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