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Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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 school.

This book changed my life and my teaching. I've applied its principles every day of the 10 years since reading it.

If it had only covered the concept of downshifting, it would have been worth it. Instead, it fit it into a whole web of information, implications, and suggestions.

As a high school English teacher, I enjoyed this book and found it enlightening. It also has an excellent bibliography. The chapter on "Orchestrated Immersion" was particularly interesting.