Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain (Paperback)

~ Renate Nummela Caine (Author), Mr. Geoffrey Caine (Author)

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Product Description

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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

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. 

Product Details

• Paperback: 136 pages
• Publisher: Corwin Press; 3rd edition (June 30, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761988971
• ISBN-13: 978-0761988977
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #6,329,127 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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35 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book has changed the way I teach!, February 5, 1999

By	Heather Severson ([e-mail]) (Seattle, Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain (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.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for every modern day educator!, May 9, 1998

By	Jeffrey L. Calligan "Australian Transplant" (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain (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.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential for building a "brain based" classroom., June 26, 1998

By	[e-mail] (A 'burb southeast of Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain (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.