Designing Brain-Compatible Learning [Paperback]

This updated guide synthesizes the latest brain research into powerful teaching strategies for integrating thinking skills, authentic assessment, and standards-based lesson planning into any classroom.

This updated guide synthesizes the latest brain research into powerful teaching strategies for integrating thinking skills, authentic assessment, and standards-based lesson planning into any classroom.

Offers a well-documented analysis of how the brain works.?Each of the research studies cited leads into a discussion of its classroom implications. Teachers really don't want to read about research studies. They want ideas that make them better teachers. The research studies give validity to the ideas presented for use in the classroom. This book is a welcome addition to books available in this field. I have used information from this book in my presentations. The ideas are very practical and can be immediately implemented. There's a strong possibility that this will become one of the most used books on the educator's bookshelf, and that's all to the good because ultimately it will be the students (and their brains) who benefit. Informative, readable, and most of all, practical. Foreword to the Original Edition by Pat Wolfe
Introduction
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Cognitive Research
2. Pedagogical Theory
3. Designing Brain-Compatible Units and Lessons
4. Theories of Intelligence
5. Cooperative Group Learning
6. Collaborative Skills
7. Thinking Skills
8. Graphic Organizers
9. Assessment
Glossary
Bibliography
Index