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Summary of Terry Doyle & Todd D. Zakrajsek's The New Science of Learning
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 This book is about how to learn in harmony with your brain. It is now possible to write an easy-to-read, research-based book on this topic because scientists have developed highly effective tools for looking inside the human brain. #2 Your brain changes when you learn something new. Learning takes energy, so don’t underestimate the energy consumed by your brain when you learn. #3 Your brain changes when you learn something new. To form lasting memories, practice needs to happen over extended periods. The more work your brain does, the more connections it establishes, and the more permanent memories you will create. #4 The brain needs to be prepped for learning in order for it to work at its best. This means avoiding simple carbohydrates, which are found in pastries, white bread, and pasta, and instead rely on complex carbohydrates found in fruits, whole grains, and vegetables. The brain needs a lot of water.
Teaching for Learning
Despite a growing body of research on teaching methods, instructors lack a comprehensive resource that highlights and synthesizes proven approaches. Teaching for Learning fills that gap. Each of the one hundred and one entries: describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements demonstrates how that approach has been used in education, including specific examples from different disciplines reviews findings from the research literature describes techniques to improve effectiveness. Teaching for Learning provides instructors with a resource grounded in the academic knowledge base, written in an easily accessible, engaging, and practical style.
The New Science of Learning
Explains the latest neurological research in the science of learning, stressing the brain's need for sleep, exercise, and focused attention in its processing of new information and creation of memories.
Understanding How We Learn
This succinct, jargon-free, and user-friendly volume offers faculty an introduction to 35 concepts from educational psychology that illuminate what's going through the minds of learners as they grapple with new information. The concepts are conveniently grouped under major topics, each introduced by a summary of the field, its origins, the latest relevant research, and the implications for teaching: Cognition and Thinking, Memory, Learning, Perceiving and Living in the World, Working in Groups, Motivation, and Perceptions of Self. Within each section Todd Zakrajsek and Donna Bailey provide summaries of each key concept, explaining the terminology, its background, relevance to student learnin...
Learner-Centered Teaching
This book presents the research-based case that Learner Centered Teaching (LCT) offers the best means to optimize student learning in college, and offers examples and ideas for putting it into practice, as well the underlying rationale. It also starts from the premise that many faculty are much closer to being learner centered teachers than they think, but don’t have the full conceptual understanding of the process to achieve its full impact. There is sometimes a gap between what we would like to achieve in our teaching and the knowledge and strategies needed to make it happen.LCT keeps all of the good features of a teacher-centered approach and applies them in ways that are in better harm...
Teaching at Its Best
Teaching at Its Best This third edition of the best-selling handbook offers faculty at all levels an essential toolbox of hundreds of practical teaching techniques, formats, classroom activities, and exercises, all of which can be implemented immediately. This thoroughly revised edition includes the newest portrait of the Millennial student; current research from cognitive psychology; a focus on outcomes maps; the latest legal options on copyright issues; and how to best use new technology including wikis, blogs, podcasts, vodcasts, and clickers. Entirely new chapters include subjects such as matching teaching methods with learning outcomes, inquiry-guided learning, and using visuals to teac...
Essentials of the New Science of Learning
This streamlined adaption of the best-selling book The New Science of Learning: How to Learn in Harmony with Your Brain is a distillation of the most essential and immediately effective tips and strategies selected specifically to put college students on the path to success. In this primer, Zakrajsek masterfully translates complex findings from cognitive psychology and neuroscience into easy-to-understand concepts that can be used immediately to learn faster and retrain information longer. Readers will come away with strategies that have been demonstrated throughout the world to improve learning, as well as a greatly enhanced understanding of how the learning process works. Taking just a few hours to read the material in this book and practice what has been assembled for learners at any level may well prove to be one of the best decisions a college student can make. This Essentials of the New Science of Learning: The Power of Learning in Harmony With Your Brain is ideal for individual student use or as a powerful supplement to any course, in any course, across the college curriculum.
Teaching and Learning
Our highly interconnected global education environment provides unprecedented opportunities for teaching professionals and educational researchers to share best practice in teaching and learning across international borders and sociocultural frontiers. This volume presents a diverse range of innovative educational best practices from around the world – particularly those practices that directly strengthen and enhance student motivation and achievement in a broad range of sociocultural contexts. These practices include: enhancing teaching and learning environments, particularly in relation to provision of high quality infrastructure for 21st Century (digital) learning; designing and managin...
To Improve the Academy
The development of students is a fundamental purpose of higher education and requires for its success effective advising, teaching, leadership, and management. Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) fosters human development in higher education through faculty, instructional, and organizational development. A smart mix of big-picture themes, national developments, and examples of effective faculty development initiatives from a variety of schools, To Improve the Academy offers examples and resources for the enrichment of all educational developers. This annual volume incorporates all the latest need-to-know information for faculty developers and administrators.
Dynamic Lecturing
Is the lecture an outmoded teaching method that inhibits active learning or is it a potentially powerful tool that is an essential part of every teacher’s repertoire?This book presents up-to-date research on the different types of lecture, on what constitutes effective lecturing, and on the impact of lecturing when done appropriately and well. It fills the void in professional development resources on how to lecture, validating the practice when it’s aligned with the educational mission of creating engaged learning environments.Christine Harrington and Todd Zakrajsek demonstrate that, rather than lecture and active learning being mutually exclusive or either-or propositions, the effectiv...
