A spotlight on using NeuroBreaks to reset the language-learning brain
Price: FREE
Date: Tuesday 27th October
Speaker: Diana Bauducco
Time: 4-5 pm (London time) Not able to join us live on the day? Everyone who signs up will also receive the webinar recording
There’s a moment in almost every lesson when the energy drains out of the room, not because the activity was boring, but because the brain has simply run out of runway. Language learning places an exceptionally high cognitive load on students, leading to rapid working memory saturation and heightened anxiety. Rather than a discipline or motivation issue, this drop in focus is purely biological.
This webinar looks at that moment through a neuroscience lens, and introduces NeuroBreaks: brief, deliberate interventions that trigger a real physiological change that can help reset attention and learning capabilities. Diana will translate this theory into four practical types of NeuroBreak you can start using immediately in your own teaching.
By attending this webinar, you’ll discover how to read classroom signals and strategically integrate these neuro-resets to maximize cognitive output without sacrificing lesson momentum.
The MET Spotlight Series shines a light on key topics and themes we’ve explored in MET. In these webinars, our fantastic MET contributors explore their chosen topic in more detail, and share their expertise alongside practical tips, useful ideas and more. Subscribers can read Diana’s recent article on using Neurobreaks in the language classroom here.
Speaker: Diana Bauducco is a language teacher and academic manager with over 17 years of experience in the EFL sector. She currently works in the Young Learners division at IH London. Passionate about innovative educational practices, Diana is particularly interested in bridging the gap between neuroscience and language education. She continuously explores how insights from the science of learning can inform teaching methodologies and enhance learner outcomes in the EFL classroom. Her work focuses on creating creative, engaging, and dynamic learning environments that are grounded in evidence-based principles and designed to support meaningful, long-lasting learning.
