The creation of the teacher ..for all the teachers at heart!

THE CREATION OF THE TEACHER

The Good Lord was creating teachers. It was His sixth day of 'overtime' and He knew that this was a tremendous responsibility for teachers would touch the lives of so many impressionable young children. An angel appeared to Him and said, “You are taking a long time to figure this one out."

"Yes," said the Lord,” but have you read the specs on this order?"

TEACHER:

... must stand above all students, yet be on their level

... must be able to do 180 things not connected with the subject being taught

... must run on coffee, coke and leftovers,

... must communicate vital knowledge to all students daily and be right most of the time

... must have more time for others than for herself/himself

must have a smile that can endure through pay cuts, problematic children, and worried parents

... must go on teaching when parents question every move and administration is not supportive

... must have 6 pair of hands

"Six pair of hands, “said the angel, "that's impossible" "Well, “said the Lord, " it is not the hands that are the problem. It is the three pairs of eyes that are presenting the most difficulty!" The angel looked incredulous, “Three pairs of eyes...on a standard model?" The Lord nodded His head, “One pair can see a student for what he is and not what others have labeled him as. Another pair of eyes is in the back of the teacher's head to see what should not be seen, but what must be known. The eyes in the front are only to look at the child as he 'goofs up' in order to reflect, “I understand and I still believe in you", without so much as saying a word to the child." "Lord,” said the angel, “This is a very large project and I think you should work on it tomorrow". "I can't," said the Lord, " for I have come very close to creating something much like myself. I have one that comes to work when she is sick.....teaches a class of children that do not want to learn....has a special place in her heart for children who are not her own.....understands the struggles of those who have difficulty....never takes the students for granted..." The angel looked closely at the model the Lord was creating. "It is too soft-hearted,” said the angel. "Yes," said the Lord, “but also tough, you can not imagine what this teacher can endure or do, if necessary" "Can this teacher think?" asked the angel. "Not only think,” said the Lord, "but reason and compromise." The angel came closer to have a better look at the model and ran his finger over the teacher's cheek. "Well Lord,” said the angel, your job looks fine but there is a leak. I told you were putting too much into this model. You can not imagine the stress that will be placed upon the teacher." The Lord moved in closer and lifted the drop of moisture from the teacher's cheek. It shone and glistened in the light. "It is not a leak," He said, “It is a tear." "A tear? What is that?" asked the angel, “What is a tear for?" The Lord replied with great thought, “It is for the joy and pride of seeing a child accomplish even the smallest task. It is for the loneliness of children who have a hard time to fit in and compassion for the feelings of their parents. It comes from the pain of not being able to reach some children and the disappointment those children feel in themselves. It comes often when a teacher has been with a class for a year and must say good-bye to those students and get ready to welcome a new class." "My, “said the angel, " The tear thing is a great idea...You are a genius!!"

The Lord looked somber, “I didn't put it there."

We are smart.. for all the proud mothers!

Mothers’ Brains Are Bigger

By LISA BELKIN

Yes, it’s based on a tiny sample — just 19 women, all in their 30s and all college educated. True, it’s a preliminary finding.

But let’s put that aside for the moment and indulge ourselves, shall we?

The study, which appears in this month’s issue of the journal Behavioral Neuroscience finds that women’s brains grow in the months after they give birth, leaving them smarter than they were before.

O.K., O.K., I know. From where you sit, it doesn’t feel that way, what with all the absentmindedness and exhaustion, occasional inept moments, fits of anger or crying jags. But the neuroscientist Pilyoung Kim, of the National Institutes of Health, measured the brains of new mothers and found that those who had “positive” interactions with their infants showed “increased gray matter volume in the midbrain,” the region linked to such skills as judgment, reasoning and emotional processing. It’s the same effect previously seen in postpartum lab animals and is likely an evolutionary response to increased demands on a female to keep offspring alive.

The key word here, though, is “positive.” The brain growth seems to be a self-perpetuating cycle, with mothers learning coping skills with each warm and successful interaction with their newborns. In this way, the research might provide a window onto the mechanics of postpartum depression, because the cycle seems not to “take” as completely in women with postpartum depression. As Craig Kinsley, professor of psychology at the University of Richmond, asks in a commentary to the Kim article: “Is it possible that just as there are edifices that are poorly constructed and crumble at the first challenge by earthquake or hurricane, there may be defectively assembled maternal brains that fail in their task of caring adequately for young?”

But I digress. There will be more research to worry us about the way this process can go wrong.

For today, Mama, just smile quietly to yourself, knowing yours is bigger.

Math groups

Are you a leopard, a chipmunk or a giraffe?

This is a funny scene of "Desperate Housewives" where you can see how children are divided into groups with animal names according to their performance levels in math. Students are given activities with a different degree of difficulty and they take that in naturally. Apparently noone knows which is the brightest group, but parents crack the code and competition starts.

A great school policy spoiled by adults. Are your children too competitive? What about you?

Nati.....You`ll always be in our hearts!!!!

And it seems to me you lived your life

Like a candle in the wind

Never fading with the sunset

when the rain set in

And even though we try

The truth brings us to tears

All our words cannot express

The joy you brought us through the years

For all my friends who are mothers too...John Medina´s next book - "Brain rules for baby"

Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five

Every time I lectured to a group of parents-to-be about baby brain development, I made a mistake.

The parents, I thought, had come for a tasty helping of science about the brain in utero—a little neural crest biology here, a little axonal migration there. But in the Q&A session after each lecture, the questions were always the same. The first, delivered by a very pregnant woman one rainy night in Seattle, was “What can my baby learn while she is still in my womb?” Another woman asked, “What’s going to happen to my marriage after we bring our baby home?” A dad delivered the third question, with some authority: “How do I get my kid into Harvard?” An anxious mom asked the fourth question: “How can I make sure my little girl is going to be happy?” And the fifth belonged to a downright noble grandmother. “How do I make my grandchild good?” she asked. She had taken over parenting responsibilities from a drug-addicted daughter. She did not want the same thing to happen again.

No matter how many times I tried to steer the conversation toward the esoteric world of neural differentiation, parents asked variations on these same five questions—over and over again. Finally, I realized my mistake. I was giving parents Ivory Tower when they needed Ivory Soap. So, this book will not be concerned with the nature of gene regulation in the developing rhombencephalon. Brain Rules for Baby instead will be guided by the practical questions my audiences keep asking. “Brain Rules” are the name I give what we know for sure about how the early-childhood brain works. Each one is quarried from the much larger seams of behavioral psychology, cellular biology, and molecular biology. Each was selected for its ability to assist newly minted moms and dads in the daunting task of caring for a helpless little human.

I certainly understand the need for answers. Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about. I know firsthand: I have two boys, both of whom came with bewildering questions, behavioral issues, and no instructions.

I soon learned that’s not all they came with. They possessed a gravitational pull that could wrest from me a ferocious love and a tenacious loyalty. They also were magnetic; I could not help staring at their perfect fingernails, clear eyes, dramatic shocks of hair. By the time my second child was born, I understood that it is possible to split up love ad infinitum and not decrease any single portion of it. With parenting, it is truly possible to multiply by dividing. My wife and I still marvel at how different our sons are from us, and yet how similar. Having kids is like mailing yourself a letter from the most delightful, meaningful future you can imagine.

My children also amplified the meaning of my work as a scientist. Watching a baby’s brain develop is like having a front-row seat to the Big Bang. It starts out as a single cell in the womb, quiet as a secret. Within a few weeks, it is pumping out nerve cells at the astonishing rate of 8,000 per second. Within a few months, it is on its way to becoming the world’s finest thinking machine. These mysteries fueled not only wonder and love but, as a rookie parent, I remember, anxiety and questions.

TOO MANY MYTHS

Parents need facts, not just advice, about raising their children. Unfortunately, those facts are difficult to find in the ever-growing mountain of parenting books. And blogs. And message boards, and podcasts, and mother-in-laws, and every relative who’s ever had a child. There’s plenty of information out there. It’s just hard for parents to tell what to believe.

The great thing about science is that it takes no sides—and no prisoners. Once you know which research to trust, the big picture emerges and myths fade away. To gain my trust, research must pass my “grumpfactor.” To make it into this book, studies must first have been published in the refereed literature and then successfully replicated. Some have been confirmed dozens of times. Where I make an exception for cutting-edge research, reliable but not yet fully vetted by the passage of time, I will note it.

To me, parenting is about brain development. That’s not surprising, given what I do for a living. I am a developmental molecular biologist, with strong interests in the genetics of psychiatric disorders. My research life has been spent mostly as a private consultant, a for-hire troubleshooter, to industries and public research institutions in need of a geneticist with mental-health expertise. I also founded the Talaris Institute, located in Seattle next to the University of Washington, whose original mission involved studying how infants process information at the molecular, cellular, and behavioral levels. That is how I came to talk to groups of parents from time to time, like on that rainy Seattle night.

Scientists certainly don’t know everything about the brain. But what we do know gives us our best chance at raising smart, happy children. And it is relevant whether you just discovered you are pregnant, already have a toddler, or find yourself needing to raise grandchildren. So it will be my pleasure in this book to answer the big questions parents have asked me—and debunk their big myths, too. Here are some of my favorites:

Myth: Playing Mozart to your womb will improve your baby’s future math scores.

Truth: Your baby will simply remember Mozart after birth—along with many other thingsshe hears, smells, and tastes in the womb. If you want her to do well in mathin her later years, the greatest thing you can do is to teach her impulse control in her early years.

Myth: Exposing your infant or toddler to language DVDs will boost his vocabulary.

Truth: Some DVDs can actually reduce a toddler’s vocabulary. It is true that thenumber and variety of words you use when talking to your baby boost both his vocabulary and his IQ. But the words have to come from you—a real, live human being.

Myth: To boost their brain power, children need French lessons by age 3 and a room piledwith “brain-friendly” toys and a library of educational DVDs.

Truth: The greatest pediatric brain-boosting technology in the world is probably a plain cardboard box, a fresh box of crayons, and two hours. The worst is probably your new flat-screen TV.

Myth: Telling your children they are smart will boost their confidence.

Truth: They’ll become less willing to work on challenging problems. If you want to get your baby into Harvard, praise her effort instead.

Myth: Children somehow find their own happiness.

Truth: The greatest predictor of happiness is having friends. How do you make and keep friends? By being good at deciphering nonverbal communication. Learning a musical instrument boosts this ability by 50 percent. Text messaging may destroy it.

Research like this is continually published in respected scientific journals. But unless you have a subscription to the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, this rich procession of findings may pass you by. This book is meant to let you know what scientists know—without having a Ph.D. to understand it.

One of lucre´s presentations... very interesting material to share with everybody!

THE BIOLOGY OF LEARNING: a scalpel free tour of your amazing brain.

by Nse. Lucrecia Prat Gay

Lucrecia Prat Gay at Instituto Albert Einstein: “Heads have Hearts Too”. November, 2009.

“The greatest unexplored territory in the world is the space between our ears.” BILL O´BRIEN They say crisis also means opportunity. Well then there was a positive outcome to World War II after all: the pain and tragedy of head injuries catapulted brain research into the foreground of scientific investigation. This explosion of research gave birth to a new field of knowledge: cognitive science or brain science. In 1990 the final years of the 20th century were proclaimed as the DECADE OF THE BRAIN. More has been learnt about the brain in the last ten years than in all previous scientific history. As teachers, Heads or Coordinators, we can no longer ignore the stunning contributions of neurosciences to the field of education. Powerful concepts and discoveries including the role of emotions, gender differences and environments must force us to stop and redesign our conventional educational models. As Head of Rio de la Plata School, I have been putting into practice this “brain friendly revolution” for twelve years now and the results are astonishing: discipline problems, absentee rates and staff exodus dramatically drop in the light of this new approach. There is a need to change paradigms: from psychology to biology. Digging into the biology of learning we will be able to teach effectively, with the brain in mind. Understanding HOW we learn will ensure everyone will learn. By getting more of the brain involved, learners will understand the subject better, be intrinsically motivated, enjoy the process and remember it longer. Other than teaching the way we learnt we should design our educational systems around this solid theory. This is not another trendy approach, this is neuroscience: tested and classroom proven. Dr.Robin Fogarty claims “Brain science is about how we learn, pedagogy is about how we teach”! MEET YOUR MAGIC BRAIN 1. The brain is like a sieve: in the early stages of processing, it drops data it doesn´t need or think it will use. 2. It grows dendrites and makes connections by stimulation of a rich environment. 3. Several billion bites of information pass through each and every second of your life. 4. The brain uses 20% of the energy in your body and generates enough energy to illuminate a lightbulb (when the person is awake!). 5. It is best at learning what it needs to SURVIVE (academic success is somewhere about 53 on its list!). 6. There can be a spread in differences between 2 to 3 years in completely normal developing brains. 7. Brain plasticity continues as one ages. 8. It learns from chaos and seeks order and patterns. 9. It has 100 billion active neurons,(same amount of stars in the Milky Way!) that can grow up to 20.000 connections or branches on each nerve cell. 10. It has three distinct brains, two sides that work in harmony, at least eight different intelligence centers and… …IT HOLDS THE KEY TO YOUR OWN PERSONAL LEARNING!

Lucrecia Prat Gay (center) with J. Williams (left) and A.L. Regueira ((right) Heads of English Department, IAE, Primary School.

SOME RECENT DISCOVERIES NEUROGENESIS Dr.Gage in Salk Institute, California, is undergoing studies on the birth of new neurons: neurogenesis. It has been discovered that new brain cells can be generated in hippocampus as we age. This new cells become functional, improve memory and learning. SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL NEUROSCIENCE Physical environment influences learning. The old paradigm stated that genes ran our lives, now we know that our mass brain plasticity is susceptible to social factors. (Kandel 1998, Nobel Prize) ALLOSTASIS The old paradigm believed in homeostasis, back to normal state. Scientists as Dr.David Diamond now confirm that our body and mind pay a biological prize for distress. SLEEP Without adequate sleep, decision-making is impaired and new learning is practically absent. Sleep gives your brain time to do some “housekeeping” and rearrange circuits, process emotional events and clean out mental debris. It eliminates unnecessary pathways and clears the way for new learning. Storage of information occurs during sleep. The brain is the site of language acquisition, thus a better understanding of brain structures and functions will “Let us bridge the gap between what we teach and they remember” (Dr.Spencer Kagan) The brain revolution is here to stay! Make sure you aren´t left behind! LUCRECIA PRAT GAY has been teaching for 28 years. She holds a Self-Esteem Practioner Degree and has finished her studies in Neurosicoeducation. Lucrecia also studied Brain Based Learning overseas, and has been successfully putting the model into practice for the last ten years. She is now an International Teacher Trainer for Oxford University Press.

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How much we depend on others......

Success

Success depends on the support of other people. The only hurdle between you and what you want to be is the support of others.

Look at it this way: an executive depends on people to carry out his instructions. If they don’t, the company will fire the executive, not the employees. Likewise a politician depends on voters to elect him.

There were times in history when a person could gain a position of authority through force and hold it with force or threats. In those days a man either cooperated with the leader or risked loosing his head. But today a person either supports you willingly or doesn’t support you at all.

But how can you get people’s willingness to support you? The answer wrapped up in one phrase is “ THINK RIGHT TOWARD PEOPLE”.

When a group of people has to consider names for a new post or a promotion, in 9 cases out of 10 the “LIKEABILITY” factor is given far more weight than the technical factor. “ I know he has a good academic and technical background, I don’t question his competence, but I am concerned about the acceptance he would receive" .

The above holds true even in selecting scholars for university professorships. Unfair? Unacademic? No. If the fellow isn’t likeable he can’t be expected to get through to his students with maximum effectiveness.

President Lyndon Johnson even developed a personal plan for thinking right toward people:

1- Learn to remember names.

2- Be a comfortable person so there is no strain in being with you.

BE AN OLD-SHOE kind of individual.

3- Guard against the impression that you KNOW-IT-ALL.

4- Cultivate the quality of being interesting.

5- Sincerely attempt to heal every misunderstanding that you have had.

6- Try to get the “SCRATCHY” elements out of your personality.

7- Never miss out on an opportunity to say a word of sincere congratulations upon anyone’s achievement, or express sympathy in sorrow or disappointment.

Super simple songs

This is a beautiful song to teach the numbers in kindergraten!!! My niece´s favourite one. Speacially for Luna!! She is only two and she can sing it through and through!!!

Children see children do -

For parents and teachers

This video shows how we can be the wrong example to our children by simply being ourselves! The serious task of being the role model.

Too real to be funny?

Are we heading to this? Is the whole school system in the students or even worse in their parents´hands? Give it a thought!

Benjamin Button - What if ...?

This movie, apart from being one of my favourites, has great instances to teach different things. For those who have advanced levels this video about the accident is fantastic to teach 3rd type conditional in a fun, meaningful and comprenhensive way!!
Hope you can use it!

Motherhood

I´m up and about, ready to share more ideas and tips after a while now.

My baby was born on March 3rd and since that moment my life has changed completely forever. I´m a whole different person now, and Tobias is responsible for that. I wanted to share this quote Silvina sent me with all of you, not only because it´s absolutely true , but also because I liked it very much!!!

“A baby will make love stronger, days shorter, nights longer, bankroll smaller, home happier, clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth living for”

Amazing webpage!

Dear teachers:

Here goes a real life saver. In this webpage you´ll find all sort of free worksheets divided by topic and age, when you find the worksheet you like you can either save it or print it. Help yourselves!!!

http://www.tlsbooks.com/englishworksheets.htm

Specially for Rio de la Plata staff...lots of love!

You Can Make History (Young Again)

Music: Elton JohnLyrics: Bernie Taupin

I can feel the time closing in
I can feel the years crawling through my skin
And if I doubt myself I can count on the rain
To cover the tears of this aging game
But I can count on you to play your part
I don't miss a beat of your animal heart
And when you push from behind I know
I canCover a mountain with the palm of my hand
And oh babe, you can make history young again
You could rewrite, you could decide
The things that should or shouldn't have been
You could look at me in the scheme of things
Oh babe, you could make history young again
I can watch the weeks sweeping by
I can recollect the hearts hanging out to dry
When the world shuts down I can touch my fears
I can hear lost youth ringing in my ears
But I lost nothing when I gained you
You just blew me away with yesterdays news
When you run your fingers down my spine
It's like throwing a switch on the hands of time
Ancient minds, ancient livesGot a way of coming around
If I knew then what I know now
I'd make it back to you somehow

Interesting web page

Sir Ken Robinson´s web page! Plenty of videos and radio interviews to enjoy and to learn from.

Don´t miss the chance to know about the writer of

" The element"

Hope you take profit from his enriching ideas! Your students will certainly benefit.

http://www.sirkenrobinson.com/

Way back into love!!!

Soundtrack of the movie " Music and Lyrics". It´s a great song to present Present Perfect Continuous and some other structures and collocations.

Hope you can use it with your students!

The very hungry caterpillar

Meet the author of this wonderful story and discover how he created it!


http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/video.jsp?pID=1640149541&bcpid=1640149541&bclid=1557820329&bctid=14259130001

Specially for teachers

A true life saver for all the teachers! All kinds of worksheets to download for free....! Can you believe it?

Browse through this link, you´ll find whatever you need!

http://vanda51.blogspot.com/2009/08/means-of-transport-land.html

Tea, tea, tea song!

Specially dedicated to Mariela who managed to put together the most amazing tea table for all the Rio de la Plata staff!! Hats off to you!!!!

Famous characters

Here are the answers......

To see full size image click on the link below:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01367/famous-faces-answe_1367694a.jpg

1 Bill Gates, Microsoft founder
2 Homer, Greek poet
3 Cui Jian, Chinese singer
4 Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary
5 Pavel Korchagin, Russian artist
6 Bill Clinton, former US President
7 Peter the Great, Russian leader
8 Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister
9 Bruce Lee, martial arts actor
10 Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister
11 Henri Matisse, French artist
12 Gengis Khan, Mongolian warlord
13 Napoleon Bonaparte, French military leader
14 Che Guevara, Marxist revolutionary
15 Fidel Castro, former Prime Minister and President of Cuba
16 Marlon Brando, actor
17 Yasser Arafat, former leader of Palastine
18 Julius Caesar, Roman emperor
19 Claire Lee Chennault, Second World War US Lieutenant
20 Luciano Pavarotti, singer
21 George W. Bush, former US President
22 The Prince of Wales
23 Liu Xiang, Chinese hurdler
24 Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General
25 Zhang An (the painter)
26 Mikhail Gorbachev, former Russian leader
27 Li Tiezi (the painter)
28 Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet
29 Dai Dudu (the painter)
30 Pele, footballer
31 Guan Yu, Chinese warlord
32 Ramses II, Egyptian pharoah
33 Charles De Gaulle, French general
34 Albert Nobel, Swedish chemist, founder of Nobel prizes
35 Franklin Roosevelt, former US President
36 Ernest Hemingway, American novelist
37 Elvis Presley, American singer
38 Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist
39 William Shakespeare, English playwright
40 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer
41 Steven Spielberg, American film director
42 Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter
43 Marie Curie, physicist and pioneer of radioactivity
44 Zhou Enlai, first Premier of the People’s Republic of China
45 Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, German writer
46 Laozi, Chinese philosopher
47 Marilyn Monroe, American actress
48 Salvador Dali, Spanish painter
49 Dowager Cixi, former ruler of China
50 Ariel Sharon, former Israeli Prime Minister
51 Qi Baishi, Chinese painter
52 Qin Shi Huang, former Emperor of China
53 Mother Teresa, Roman Catholic Missionary
54 Song Qingling, Chinese politician
55 Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet
56 Otto Von Bismarck, German statesman
57 Run Run Shaw, Chinese media mogul
58 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher
59 Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress
60 Ludwig Van Beethoven, German composer
61 Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader
62 Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist politician
63 Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq
64 Maxim Gorky, Russian writer
65 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary
66 Den Xiaoping, Chinese revolutionary
67 Alexander Pushkin, Russian author
68 Lu Xun, Chinese writer
69 Joseph Stalin, former Soviet Union leader
70 Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter
71 Karl Marx, German philosopher
72 Friedrich Nietzche, German philosopher
73 Abraham Lincoln, former US President
74 Mao Zedong, Chinese dictator
75 Charlie Chaplin, British actor
76 Henry Ford, founder of Ford motor company
77 Lei Feng, Chinese soldier
78 Norman Bethune, Canadian physician
79 Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist
80 Juan Antonio Samaranch, former International Olympic Committee president
81 Chiang Kai Shek, Chinese general
82 Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
83 Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist
84 Li Bai, Chinese poet
85 Corneliu Baba, Romanian painter
86 Auguste Rodin, French artist
87 Dwight Eisenhower, former US President
88 Michael Jordan, American basketball player
89 Hideki Tojo, former Japan Prime Minister
90 Michelangelo, Italian Renaissance painter
91 Yi Sun-Sin, Korean naval commander
92 Mike Tyson, American boxer
93 Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister
94 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author
95 Shirley Temple, American actress
96 Albert Einstein, German physicist
97 Moses, Hebrew religious leader
98 Confucius, Chinese philosopher
99 Ghandi, Indian spiritual leader
100 Vincent Van Gogh, Dutch painter
101 Toulouse Lautrec, French painter
102 Marcel Duchamp, French artist
103 Behind George Bush is Osama bin Laden

Famous characters

Look at this incredible painting.... How many famous characters can you find?

This would be a great activity for your students to find and group different people as regards their intelligences. You can even turn it into a game like activity!!!

I hope you find it useful

You can find the full size image at:

http://www.patricksemaan.com/projektcyan/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/painting.jpg

There are 103 characters. Answers..... coming soon!!! jajajaja

Parts of the brain by Pinky & Brain

This is a very nice video to teach children the parts of the brain. I saw it in one of Lucrecia´s conferences and I´d like to share it with you all. Enjoy!

You are the reason I have, you are all my reasons...

This is the last scene in the movie " A beautiful mind" in which you can see John Nash( respected mathematician) recieving the Nobel prize.
After a hard life he discovers that in the mysterious equations of love any logical reason can be found.

All you need is love.....Love is all you need.....!

Look what I´ve found!!!!!!

This is part of the presentation Lucrecia Prat Gay delivered in Jornadas de Neurosicoeducación 2009

Follow the link and enjoy!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8SEuhYj3ks

Two questions to be admitted in heaven

What would you answer? .......

Que importante es saber idiomas!

The power of translation and interpretation.....hilarious!

children see, children do

Children see, Children do!

A shocking add to understand the power of modelling and imitation...Food for thought!

I´m back again!

After a while here I am back again! Pregnancy has kept me busy.. I can´t imagine motherhood!!!
I wanted to share with you a web page where you can practice Yes/No questions.... Try it out it´s really amazing!

http://en.akinator.com/