4.28.2010

emotional involvement triggers learning

I have a teacher, Mr. S, who creates an emotion while we’re learning. Every time he says something it’s funny, or it has some sort of impact on us when he talks. He is very emotionally involved in whatever he says, and he gets his point clearly across.


The reason that emotional involvement increases learning is because when we hare in an excited state it increases the brains chemicals for learning there for increasing memory potential and remembrance.

Mr. S’s way of teaching provides a high amount of emotion. Whether it is funny or serious; he has an emotion towards it. Humor increases the level of brain activity, and this shows emotional involvement does increase learning. Though if a teacher is upset, this still creates an emotion, thus being emotionally involved and it might be negative, it still triggers the brain and learning, increasing memory potential.



• Emotional involvement does increase learning because your brain is in this excited state that triggers an increasing of memory potential.

• No matter which emotion, it still creates an emotional environment and triggers emotional involvement. Too much emotion though will start to distract and the major focus of learning is cut off and learning does decrease.

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