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APPLYING WHAT YOU LEARNED Brain-Based Learning 41
Strategies for Stimulating the Brain

1. In what ways can you use research findings about the human brain to enhance your own training
programs?

2. How can understanding the differences in the way adults and children learn aid in providing a more
valuable learning experience for your participants?

3. What can you do to address the different learning modalities of participants?

4. What will you do to ensure that you address each of the five stages of learning?

5. Based on the Gardner’s concepts of eight intelligences, what strategies can you build into your
programs to stimulate learning in each intelligence area?

6. How can you enrich your learning environments?

7. Based on the concepts of brain-based learning that you read, what techniques can you use in your
next session to help gain and hold attention?

8. What types of memory devices can you use to encourage retention of material that you present in
your sessions?