Description
Empower students with proven strategies for brain-friendly instruction!
This revised fourth edition offers more than 1,000 brain research–based teaching strategies along with reflections, affirmations, sidebars, bulleted lists, quotable quotes, and a wealth of instructional tools. The author shows how to improve instructional effectiveness, plan standards-based lessons, and optimize student learning with practical techniques such as:
- Matching instruction with learners' developmental stages
- Responding to unique learning styles with differentiated techniques
- Using assessment as part of instruction
- Addressing the learning needs of students in poverty
- Managing students' emotions with music and energizers
- Practicing positive teaching mind-sets to enhance student results
Table of Contents
Preface
Changes in the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. How Teaching Changes Lives
2. How Students Learn
3. Learning Environment
4. Lesson Planning With the Standards
5. Learner Differences
6. Assessment for Learning
7. Super Mind-Sets
8. They All Have Special Needs
9. Poverty's Influence on Kids
10. Critical Connections
11. Learning to Remember
12. Listening Secrets
13. Engagement and Motivation Strategies
14. Fine-Tuning Your Presentation
15. The Productive Nature of Using Rituals
16. Managing Students' Emotional States With Music and Energizers
17. Running Your Class Successfully
18. Ways to Create a Thriving Self
References
Index
