![]() Brain Gym stimulates the nerves of the brain to integrate the brain’s activities for whole brain functioning. Movement in Brain Gym is the key to learning. With the use of the Brain Gym activities, learning processes are stimulated to function at their optimum level often times resulting in increased learning, which manifests as higher grades for students and ease of learning for adults. Learning can become a difficult, frustrating and confusing process. Brain Gym movements are designed to be and in fact are gymnastics for the brain and have proven over time to be of benefit in the learning process.įor many reasons, incomplete firing processes within the nervous system can lead to slower learning. These movements and activities were formulated and refined and subsequently became called Brain Gym®. From these results, he developed a systematic process for improved learning which he called Brain Gym. It doen’t make it necessarily a bad thing that children are forced to do something but intinsically one would hope they and their parents appreciate what’s going on and are on board.Paul Dennison Ph.D., from his work in the early ’70’s with children who had learning challenges, came to understand that there were simple movements and activities that produced profound, positive changes in these children. ![]() Same for anything in the curriculum really. So children should/shouldn’t be forced to do it …. This amount of Mindfulness works/ doesn’t work … This is the most effective type of Mindfulness programme is … Mindfulness is better than X because Y… and Z … that have been tried don’t work(could put in Brain Gym here). Mindfulness is helpful to developing children because of these effects …. these are the effects on the mind/brain and these are the benefits… It works with children more/less/the same as in adults because …. It works in adults because … these are the effects on the mind/brain and these are the benefits… What we are trying to achieve with Mindfulness in schools is a), b) and c)… And these 92,000 (I’ll just polish them off later today) boil down to what exactly? ![]() Those who buy into the program are either “children who naively assume their teachers know what they are doing or teachers who are bamboozled by the pseudoscientific jargon or seduced by charismatic and enthusiastic believers.” ( Carroll 2009) Verdict: Watson and Kelso (2014) found Brain Gym “does not produce clear and substantial differences in academic engagement” but “even with the inadequacy of empirical support, Brain Gym is still an often promoted intervention.” Of the few published studies one involved four participants, one of whom was the author of the study and the others were published in a journal that required the authors to pay for publication.Īnother study had severe methodological failings. There is no evidence that Brain Gym improves academic skills, listening and thinking skills, or learning disability deficits ( Hyatt, 2007) The founders claim that laying brain-training games can help improve your memory, concentration or intelligence and the Brain Gym website makes lots of grand statements but these are backed by zero evidence.īrain Gym do cite evidence on its site but the research it drew on has been widely discredited. Brain Gym is a movement based programme based on the idea that moving leads to optimal learning and “we empower all ages to reclaim the joy of living.” It has “bad science” written all over it “with a scientific explanatory framework that is barkingly out to lunch.”Ĭreated by Paul and Gail Dennison in the 1980s, Brain Gym is the shop-front name for what they call Education Kinesiology or Edu-K. In a brilliant article, Charlie Brooker once warned us to, “ Man the lifeboats, the idiots are winning.“īrain Gym is a classic piece of snake oil in education that has been mis-sold to thousands of schools and has been peddled by many in order to cash in on the neuroscience gold rush. In between teaching jobs, I worked as an Ofsted inspector (no hate mail please!), national in-service provider, project. ![]() John DabellI trained as a primary school teacher 25 years ago, starting my career in London and then I taught in a range of schools in the Midlands. ![]()
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