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I will reflect on connecting yesterday’s comment concerning teachers being brain surgeons and this morning presentation on action potentials of students’ sensory neurons.

Now that I know that all neurons’ action potentials have a threshold for action, which it is all or nothing, I must consider the sensory inputs that students in my class are receiving from me in my classroom. Am I giving enough sensory input to penetrate “the feeble dullness in the eyes” of the average child? Why I am not overcoming the minimal action potentials necessary for activation? What can I, as a skilled brain surgeon, do to alter the sensory inputs, which are obviously not being effective processed by the bored or acting out child? Is the bored or acting child behaving due to the sensory inputs s/he is receiving from me or is it a situation beyond my control that is causing this behavior? Should I shift my delivery to include others senses? What should a skilled brain surgeon do?