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Description
Both students and teachers are often unaware of the highly significant and interrelated mind-body connection, which plays a pivotal role in the effectiveness of learning and overall health. In typical classrooms, students often exhibit signs of self-defeating lifestyle-related habits that can inhibit learning, memory, and long-term goal achievement. For example, online and social media addictions often create sleep-deprived students who are less likely to effectively pay attention and remember, thus reducing learning potential. Through various communicative classroom tasks and activities, teachers can simultaneously gain content knowledge, raise awareness and provide engaging opportunities for discussion and reflection via topics such as making and breaking habits, sleep, exercise, intermittent movement, nutrition, hydration, understanding stress, and time management.
The principle research method includes Classroom Action Research undertaken by observation, written feedback, course content summaries and reflection reports.This presentation aims to briefly outline and engage participants with content implemented in various university contexts, fine-tuned over the past twenty years. It is anticipated that attendees will have at their disposal simple methods that can be briefly and easily implemented in their teaching contexts and become aware of specific and beneficial lifestyle-related content.
Biography
Steve Jugovic is a university associate professor based in Japan and has presented at numerous conferences, mostly throughout Asia. His research interests include materials design, CLIL topics- lifestyle choices and learning, extensive reading, and various Mind, Brain, and Education Science themes such as attention and memory. He is the founder of Lifeupaction, an online content-based English course aimed at supporting learning and life.
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