Description
Make instructional decisions that optimize learning!
Presenting a unique collection of twelve brain principles, the authors illustrate how the brain learns best and demonstrate how teachers can enhance students' learning potential. Conversational and user friendly, this resource describes how the brain stores and recalls information, guiding teachers in making everyday decisions about academic content and the emotional well-being of their students. Twelve Brain Principles That Make the Difference will show you how:
- Challenge engages the brain
- The brain processes parts and wholes simultaneously
- Each brain is unique
- The search for meaning is innate
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Climate for Learning
Challenge/Threat: Learning Principle 1
Emotions/Cognition: Learning Principle 2
Focused/Peripheral: Learning Principle 3
Part Two: Skills of Learning
Parts/Whole: Learning Principle 4
Spatial/Rote: Learning Principle 5
Parallel Processing: Learning Principle 6
Part Three: Interactions With Learning
Physiology: Learning Principle 7
Brain Uniqueness: Learning Principle 8
Social/Experience: Learning Principle 9
Part Four: Learning About Learning
Meaning: Learning Principle 10
Patterning: Learning Principle 11
Conscious/Unconscious: Learning Principle 12
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