Full Description
In this second edition of Brain Based LearningTeaching, educator and brain researcher Eric Jensen offers a learning approach that is closely aligned with how the brain naturally learns. Based on empirical brain research from the disciplines of neuroscience, biology, and psychology, Jensen's text explains how the relationship between learning and the brain can impact emotions, patterns, gender, meaningfulness, environments, body rhythms, attitudes, enrichment, and assessment, and how it influences the effects of stress and trauma.The book's powerful information suggests ways for transforming schools into complete learning organizations by providing students with an optimal learning environment. Implementation of brain-based schooling has proven to increase graduation rates, decrease learning difficulties and discipline problems, and create conditions for the love of learning to flourish.
Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorPart 1. Fundamentals of Brain-Based Learning1. What Is Brain-Based Learning?2. How Your Student's Brain Learns3. Brain Dominance in Learning4. Rhythms of the BrainPart 2. Physiological Effects on Learning5. Biological Differences in Learning6. The Impact of Physical Movement on the Brain7. Stress and ThreatPart 3. Sensory Contributions to Learning8. The Role of Sight in Learning9. The Role of Touch in Learning10. The Role of Taste in Learning11. The Roles of Smell and Acoustics in Learning12. The Role of Emotions in LearningPart 4. Neuroscientific Perspective on Teaching and Learning13. Teacher Communication14. The Nonconscious Learning Climate15. Motivation and Rewards16. Attention and Survival Value17. Teaching How to Think18. Memory and Creating Patterns of Meaning19. Meaning MakingPart 5. Brain-Compatible Classrooms20. Enriching the Brain21. Curriculum in a Brain-Compatible Classroom22. Assessing With the Brain in Mind23. Brain-Based ReformReferencesIndex
