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A Child's Brain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

A Child's Brain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-09
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  • Publisher: Corwin Press

Learn how a child's brain works, develops, and changes during the critical stages of childhood!

The Adolescent Brain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 177

The Adolescent Brain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007-02-09
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  • Publisher: Corwin Press

Easy-to-understand theories and nontechnical language help educators and parents understand how the teenage brain thinks, feels, learns, and changes on its journey to adulthood.

A Biological Brain in a Cultural Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 168

A Biological Brain in a Cultural Classroom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-03-08
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  • Publisher: Corwin

The author suggests imaginative collaborative classroom investigations that will help teachers and students understand and improve their behavior and learning potential.

How to Explain a Brain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

How to Explain a Brain

Noted author Robert Sylwester offers educators and general readers his own definitions for terms used in the cognitive neurosciences. This unique look into the marvelous brain uses language and descriptions that are accessible to readers, even those with just a limited understanding of biology. Discover how our brain is organized and develops, and how educators can use this emerging understanding of cognition to enhance student learning and the school environment. This ready-reference guide to essential concepts and terms in cognitive neurosciences includes: -Nearly three hundred encyclopedic entries and cross references created to help educators understand key concepts about our brain's organization, development, and learning capabilities -Eleven newly created anatomic models and illustrations that focus on key brain systems and functions -References and recommended print and Internet resources How to Explain a Brain celebrates the brain in all its wonder and is sure to become a reference book of choice for teachers, instructional leaders, and teacher educators.

A Celebration of Neurons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

A Celebration of Neurons

Provides an introduction to late twentieth-century scientific understanding of the development, organization, and operation of the brain, written especially for educational leaders, and suggests some broad educational applications that may be introduced in schools.

A Biological Brain in a Cultural Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

A Biological Brain in a Cultural Classroom

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003-02-06
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  • Publisher: Corwin Press

Updated Edition of Best Seller! Expanding on his immensely popular first edition, Sylwester presents an updated, revised, and expanded second edition on the latest biological research.

Heart-Deep Teaching
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

Heart-Deep Teaching

For parents and teachers, a book that actively engages the Bible student's mind, will and body, establishing a higher standard of teaching and learning firmly rooted in both Scripture and current educational research.

The Brain's Behind It
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

The Brain's Behind It

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004-03-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

AT LAST! Alistair Smith's latest book is the product of three years research. If you want to know more about the brain and learning, this is the book you need. With separate sections on the development cycle of the learning brain from conception to old age, the book sets out to separate fact from fallacy, findings from fads. Clear guidance is given as to what helps and what hinders learning. Highly readable, illustrated throughout and well researched, the book will appeal to parents, educators and policy-makers. The Brain's Behind It promises to become the definitive book on the brain and learning.

Rethinking Classroom Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

Rethinking Classroom Management

Based upon the authors' many years of classroom experience and consulting work this volume is filled with practical, research-based and tested strategies to help teachers create an environment that supports students' sense of self-esteem, influence and autonomy whilst preventing possible conflict.

Arts with the Brain in Mind
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 151

Arts with the Brain in Mind

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-05-15
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  • Publisher: ASCD

How do the arts stack up as a major discipline? What is their effect on the brain, learning, and human development? How might schools best implement and assess an arts program? Eric Jensen answers these questions--and more--in this book. To push for higher standards of learning, many policymakers are eliminating arts programs. To Jensen, that's a mistake. This book presents the definitive case, based on what we know about the brain and learning, for making arts a core part of the basic curriculum and thoughtfully integrating them into every subject. Separate chapters address musical, visual, and kinesthetic arts in ways that reveal their influence on learning. What are the effects of a fully...