What is Brain/Mind Learning?

We must understand how human beings learn and place that understanding at the very center of teaching.

In order to make sense of the vast amount of research that has been generated in fields ranging from clinical psychology and cognitive psychology to biology and neuroscience, the Caines developed a set of twelve Brain/Mind Learning Principles that summarize what is presently known about learning.

The principles were originally spelled out in their book Making Connections, Teaching and the Human Brain. The principles look at all learners as living systems where physical and mental functioning are interconnected (learning is psychophysiological).

No one principle is more important than another. They are numbered for identification only: