This is my short reflection of the sessions I had attended at FAB 8 NeuroELT International Conference - one of the most thrilling conferences ever. It took place in the beautiful city of Kyoto, Japan on Sept 25-26. I've gather loads of new knowledge and insights and with pure excitement, I am using so many of them in my classrooms now.

1. A REFLECTION OF THE SESSIONS I HAD ATTENDED!
- UMES SHRESTHA, NEPAL

2. Learning is dynamic, it doesn’t just go
straight up. It’s always up and down.
- Robert Murphy

3. Meditation class with Marc Helgesen
before the conference !
Great warm up for the brain.

4. Unconference
Law of Two Feet
- Graham Jones andTom Gorham

5. The brain is constantly predicting, and also
simulating.That’s why our brains love stories.
- Curtis Kelly

6. One of the highlights (innovations) of the FAB 8
Conference. Steve Jugovic, the Body Police,
making us get off our butts.

7. Even when students look bored, they might be
paying attention selectively to an aspect of the task.
- Kevin Maher

8. Music is hardwired into homosapiens brain.We are all
musical and we can use music to enhance learning.
- Amanda Gillis-Furutaka

9. Book talk on John Hattie’s “Visible Learning for
Teachers: Maximizing Impact on Learning”
- Greg Rouault

10. Importance of role play in fostering positive learning
beliefs in students
- John Maune

11. Reading Martin Seligman’s book “Flourish”, we can all learn
to be PERMAlicious.
-Yu Noel

12. Reality check - educational games have become a
failure.
- Guy Cihi

13. How are you feeling?
Super happy, energetic prodigiously productive!
- Mohamed Ahmed

14. As a teacher,YOU are responsible for the ‘feeling’ in
the classroom.
-TraceyTokuhama-Espinosa

15. How a teacher didn’t give up on a student (Carlos)
and years later the student thanked her.
- Curtis Kelly

16. There are many pseudo-experts on neuro education
and they’re trying to sell us “Baby Einstein”.
- Lesley Ito

17. Neurons that fire together, wire together!
Think of a time when you were very very happy :)
- Marc Helgesen

18. Our brains have one purpose: movement. So incorporate a
lot of movement activities and emotions in your class.
-Yoko Morimoto

19. 6 Brain Rules forTeachers.That was my own session.
I learnt how to teach “present perfect tense” in a more
brain friendly way.

20. Don’t expect so low of the students that it eventually
becomes a self fulfilling prophesy.
-TraceyTokuhama-Espinosa

21. How do you judge your success in L2? Do you base it in
terms of Mastery or in terms of Growth?
- Joesph Shaules

22. FAB 8 2015, Kyoto, Japan
was simply brilliant.
Thank you everyone !