Col-lab-orating to connect neuroscience with education
The links between neuroscience, teaching practice and educational research are very weak for a considerable period. This is mainly prevalent in the public schools of different countries where there are a number of issues to deal with such as financial constraints, state testing, lack of adequate time, and demands of the parents, school politics and the surrounding community. A lot of teachers, as well as the administrators of the schools and colleges, are facing many difficulties with respect to educational research that have considerable impacts on the learning and teaching. A model has been developed at the Franklin Institute that helps in the integration of expertise in the understanding and communicating the research with teaching practices that will be supported by the relevant content of science and museum exhibits. These programs assist the teachers coming from different disciplines to make out the main ideas and recommendations for improved practices of teaching on the ba