Synopses & Reviews
Designed around the best-selling book Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites, this multimedia kit provides all the tools needed for teaching the latest brain-based teaching techniques. Includes: VHS Videotape (44 min.), Facilitator's Guide, DVD, Companion Book
Synopsis
Make learning an unforgettable experience for you and your students with brain-compatible strategies
The second edition of the bestseller offers 20 field-tested, brain-compatible instructional strategies that maximize memory, engagement, and learning for every student. The book is revised throughout with a new lesson plan format, plus updated research, new strategies, and stories. Each strategy includes an overview of brain research and learning style theory, sample classroom activities, and space to brainstorm ideas for classroom application. Teachers will learn about:
- Using graphic organizers, semantic maps, and word webs
- Engaging students through music, rhythm, rhyme, and rap
- Reciprocal teaching and cooperative learning
- Implementing project-based and problem-based instruction
- Leading students through visualization and guided imagery exercises
Synopsis
How can I improve students' retention of content? For any teacher asking this vital question, the second edition of Marcia Tate's bestseller offers 20 field-tested, brain-compatible instructional strategies that maximize memory, minimize forgetting, and enhance learning for every student. Updated throughout and presenting new classroom applications and research, this updated edition features concise chapters-each one targeting a separate strategy. In each chapter, readers will find: The brain research and learning style theory behind the strategy Sample classroom activities that use the strategy Reflections and action steps for integrating the strategy into classroom instructionWorksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain, Second Edition not only enables teachers to significantly strengthen learners' capacity for content recall, but also to increase student motivation and academic success.
Synopsis
The second edition of Tate's bestseller offers 20 field-tested, brain-compatible instructional strategies that maximize memory, engagement, and learning for every student. These research-based teaching strategies enable teachers not only to promote long-term retention of information, but also to increase student motivation and academic success.