Full Description
Updated Edition of Best Seller!
Praise for the first edition:
"This is a book that should be required reading for students of education, teachers, and administrators. Dr. Sylwester provides the connecting link between research on the brain and the classroom. I would encourage educators to form book study groups to read, study, reflect, and apply what they find in this book."
Jerry Tollefson, Principal
Marquette Elementary School, Madison, WI
Explore how brain research improves student-teacher dynamics in the classroom!
Expanding on his immensely popular first edition, experienced author and professor Robert Sylwester presents an updated and expanded second edition on the latest biological research and applies it to student-teacher dynamics in the classroom.
Critical policies and practices discussed for helping educators improve their understanding of student development include:
Exploring beliefs of a democratic society in today's classrooms
Incorporating a biological/ecological perspective in classroom management
Shifting the focus from classroom management to student-teacher collaborations that improve classroom dynamics and develop social skills
Believing that students should experience as they learn, and teachers should observe, explore, and nurture their students, Robert Sylwester reveals the latest research on how the brain really works. Also available for use in conjunction with the book are a video and training guide to promote a deeper understanding of student-teacher dynamics in the classroom.
Contents
Preface
About the Author
1. The Cultural Foundations of Classroom Management
Democracy and Education
21st-Century Challenges
Collaborative Classroom Management
2. The Biological Foundations of Classroom Management
Three Forms of Biological Inquiry
Key Biological Concepts
Cells and Classrooms
3. The Marvelous Interdependent Bodybrain That Schools Seek to Manage
The Principal Brain Systems
From Jungle to Classroom in Search of a Model
4. Collaboratively Expending Energy: Who's In Charge?
Childbirth, Childhood, and Classrooms
From Potential to Kinetic Energy
Self-Esteem, Impulsivity, and Aggression
Suggested Activities
5. Collaboratively Managing Biological and Cultural Space
Mapping Cognitive, City, and Classroom Space
How Many People Can You Stuff Into a Classroom?
A Classroom Is a Created World Surrounded by a Leaky Wall
Cauliflower in the Classroom
Suggested Activities
6. Collaboratively Managing Biological and Cultural Time
Life Span: Two Developmental Decades
A Year's Curricular Time
A Day in the Life
Suggested Activities
7. Collaboratively Managing Biological and Cultural Movement
Physical Movement
Change as Psychological Movement
Suggested Activities
8. Collaboratively Managing Biological and Cultural Range
Biologically Possible Ranges
Culturally Appropriate Ranges
In the End
References and Supplementary Readings
Index
