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Brain-Compatible Strategies

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This book is a great way to "remember" all the teaching techniques you forget to use. It's like a compilation of all those ideas you've underlined over the years in all the different books and articles you've read. I agree with Minnesota above that there are probably books with more ideas, but the size and format of this book makes it practical: easy to take with you, easy to review,and easy to immediately implement. I especially like the format of the book...one page per topic (like "How to Engage the Spatial-Episodic Memory"), a brief one or two paragraph summary of the theory and then a bullet-list of ideas. I am glad to have this book and recommend it to busy teachers like myself who have to "read and run".

Eric Jensen has done so much with brain research and this book is full of VERY USEFUL strategies! I have not only highlighted strategies I will use in my classroom, but I HAVE USED THEM!! He explains each strategy and gives examples of how one can use them in their classroom. Whether you teach preschool or high school, this is a very useful book. (Especially during this time of the importance of achievement tests!) It is a quick read, but all of it is useful!!

Mr. Jensen's "Brain-Compatible Strategies" was a disappointment. His ideas were commonplace and uninteresting as was his writing. A much better source for ideas is Mel Silberman's "Active Learning: 101 Strategies to Teach Any Subject."

This book was designed for the classroom. Not what I expected but not bad.

An intriguing idea surrounded by foundational material presented in a manner that begs the reader to believe there are great insights to come. Stimulating in its thesis, but falling short of its own call to practice by overuse of educational jargon the book is ultimately unsatisfying. If it is used as a taste of leftover threads from previous educational movements it can be tolerated as a supporting source.

I really enjoyed the activities in this book. The workings of the brain is a fascinating subject! Children love doing these activities.