This book by two neuropsychology experts examines how the brain functions during learning experiences and how this knowledge can influence teaching strategies. Grades 1-12
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Renate Nummela Caine is a principal of Caine Learning LLC and consultant to districts, schools, teachers, administrators, and communities to implement brain-based learning. She is the senior author, with Geoffrey Caine, of the groundbreaking Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain. She has worked with countless educators in the U.S. and around the globe. Recently, Renate and Geoffrey Caine worked with a low-income, underachieving K-5 elementary school in California to help teachers design more innovative teaching strategies using the brain/mind learning principles and district standards.
Caine is professor emeritus of education at California State University in San Bernardino, where she was also executive director of the Center for Research in Integrative Learning and Teaching. She has taught every level from kindergarten to university. She earned her PhD from the University of Florida in educational psychology.
Geoffrey Caine, a director of Caine Learning LLC, is a learning consultant and process coach. Caine has been published extensively and is co-author of six books, including Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain. His work carries him throughout the United States and abroad. He works in the worlds of education, business, and government, where he capitalizes on his prior experiences as a professor of law, an education services manager of a national software company, a state manager of a national publishing company, and national director of the Mind/Brain Network of the American Society for Training and Development.
He has given keynote addresses or made presentations to the Campaign for Learning in the United Kingdom, the World Conference on Education for All, the Eighth International Conference on Thinking, the Whole Schools Institute sponsored by the Mississippi Arts Commission, and numerous other national and regional organizations and associations. Caine's major interest is in how best to improve the ways in which people learn together. He directs his attention to the arts of deep listening, dwelling in the question, and processing experience for the lessons it has to offer. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Caine is professor emeritus of education at California State University in San Bernardino, where she was also executive director of the Center for Research in Integrative Learning and Teaching. She has taught every level from kindergarten to university. She earned her PhD from the University of Florida in educational psychology.
Geoffrey Caine, a director of Caine Learning LLC, is a learning consultant and process coach. Caine has been published extensively and is co-author of six books, including Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain. His work carries him throughout the United States and abroad. He works in the worlds of education, business, and government, where he capitalizes on his prior experiences as a professor of law, an education services manager of a national software company, a state manager of a national publishing company, and national director of the Mind/Brain Network of the American Society for Training and Development.
He has given keynote addresses or made presentations to the Campaign for Learning in the United Kingdom, the World Conference on Education for All, the Eighth International Conference on Thinking, the Whole Schools Institute sponsored by the Mississippi Arts Commission, and numerous other national and regional organizations and associations. Caine's major interest is in how best to improve the ways in which people learn together. He directs his attention to the arts of deep listening, dwelling in the question, and processing experience for the lessons it has to offer. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is the basis for my graduate study work. I've applied the brain-based learning principles in my classrooms and enjoyed stunning results. Teaching is easier & more effective. Students are enthusiastic and inspired to learn more. Grades and attitudes improve with BBL techniques.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Every teacher owes it to their students to read this book and make it part of their repetoire. The authors have gathered meaningful information and put it in language that every educator can understand. The challenge is to change our anti-brain methods in schools and to re-invent education NOW! The information fits educational work with every age. If nothing else is learned, the "DOWNSHIFTING" that the brain does when in the presence of threat should cause us to re-examine our motivational methods used with young and adolescent students.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was extremely helpful in explaining how the brain absorbs and processes information. If you are interested in brain research, and how it impacts teaching your students, this book is a MUST! It explains how much information the human brain can process, and the various stages of learning.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Agratt
Format:Paperback
Before reading this book I thought I understood how teaching was suppose to be after all I did get my credential and a degree. I learned more from this book then from all two years in the credential program. This book along with all the other books from the Caine's have give me a reason to obtain my Ph.D. If you want to truly understand how the brain truly learned then this is the book for you.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Kim Burdick
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I like this book. It calls for developing "Low Threat/High Challenge Learning" that works with the human brain's way of processing information.
"Making Connections" was first published by educators Renate and Geoffrey Caine to begin establishing a link between the neurosciences and education. The Caines were interested in "the brain's rules for meaningful learning and organizing teaching with those rules in mind." [pg 4]
As one of the earliest books to come out on the topic [1991], this book espoused then-controversial new ideas. Several early book reviewers complained that it was written by educators, not by brain surgeons. As the years passed, the theories put forth in the Caines's book have proven to be tried and true teaching strategies.
A more recent book by a neuroscientist, "Research-based Srategies to Ignite Student Learning" by Judy Willis (2006) is a more scientific rendering of brain-based learning that essentially says the same thing.
"Why Don't Students Like School" by cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham, published in 2009 by Jossey-Bass, also confirms these studies.
This one is good. Apply the skills put forth in any or all of these books and your students will thrive.
Kim Burdick
Stanton, DE
I like this book. It calls for developing "Low Threat/High Challenge Learning" that works with the human brain's way of processing information.
"Making Connections" was first published by educators Renate and Geoffrey Caine to begin establishing a link between the neurosciences and education. The Caines were interested in "the brain's rules for meaningful learning and organizing teaching with those rules in mind." [pg 4]
As one of the earliest books to come out on the topic [1991], this book espoused then-controversial new ideas. Several early book reviewers complained that it was written by educators, not by brain surgeons. As the years passed, the theories put forth in the Caines's book have proven to be tried and true teaching strategies.
A more recent book by a neuroscientist, "Research-based Srategies to Ignite Student Learning" by Judy Willis (2006) is a more scientific rendering of brain-based learning that essentially says the same thing.
"Why Don't Students Like School" by cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham, published in 2009 by Jossey-Bass, also confirms these studies.
This one is good. Apply the skills put forth in any or all of these books and your students will thrive.
Kim Burdick
Stanton, DE
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By M. Little
Format:Paperback
There is more packed in this little book about how we, humans, learn than in hundreds of education manuals.
Should be required reading for teachers and students.
Should be required reading for teachers and students.
By M. W. Hood
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
My wife went to college and bought this book for school and she has learned a lot from it now I am going to read it.
Format:Paperback
Making Connections by Caine and Caine is one of the best books ever written on the human brain and learning. Bravo!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars
Another book on brain-based learning
I wanted to follow up on this topic after hearing Eric Jensen speak at a workshop. This title seemed interesting and follows a similar path.
Published 6 months ago by T. Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most helpful book I've ever read
This book changed my life and my teaching. I've applied its principles every day of the 10 years since reading it. Read more
Published on August 5, 2002
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This is a great book!
This is one of the most important books on education that I have ever read. It has permanently changed how i think about education and is influencing where I send my kids to... Read more
Published on April 12, 2000 by Chris O'Leary
5.0 out of 5 stars
"Great book for educators interested in the brain"
As a high school English teacher, I enjoyed this book and found it enlightening. It also has an excellent bibliography. Read more
Published on February 12, 1999
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