Our brains work best under optimal conditions we think more creatively, we absorb information quickly, and we produce better work. So how do we create those conditions in a classroom setting to help all of our students achieve? This guide shows teachers how to use simple research-supported strategies in any lesson to improve students' engagement, productivity, and capacity to learn. Among the brain-boosting tools teachers can use tomorrow are innovative graphic organizers and note-taking techniques, review activities that help students memorize content-area information, questioning tips for improving students' abilities think critically, and practical ways to differentiate lessons for all learners. For use with Grades 3-8.
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SARAH ARMSTRONG brings her experience as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, and principal as well as her expertise in brain research to her work training educators across the nation. She serves as an adjunct faculty member for several universities, embedding brain research in classes on curriculum and instruction, assessment, and risk and resiliency. Armstrong received an M.ED as a Reading Specialist from Lynchburg College, and an Ed.D from the University of Virginia.
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This review is from: Teaching Smarter With the Brain in Focus: Practical Ways to Apply the Latest Brain Research to Deepen Comprehension, Improve Memory, and Motivate Students to Achieve (Paperback)
This book by Sarah Armstrong was a quick and easy read filled with GREAT strategies and suggestions I can use to make my teaching more effecting and my students' learning more relevant. If you know anything about Bloom's Taxonomy, or have ever had an "unreachable" student in your classroom, this is the book for you! I liked the "real-life" stories shared throughout the book; you can tell the author has lived the life of a classroom teacher! I can't wait to get back to school so I can put these ideas into practice. I wish I had read this book when I was a first year teacher!
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Essential reading for teachers,
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This review is from: Teaching Smarter With the Brain in Focus: Practical Ways to Apply the Latest Brain Research to Deepen Comprehension, Improve Memory, and Motivate Students to Achieve (Paperback)
I'm a new, second-career teacher; I've been reading book after book after book this year - many of them useful and all of them well-reviewed, but I believe this one will have the greatest impact on how I run my classroom.
It's a highly-readable book, the goal of which is basically to explain to teachers how kids (and adults for that matter) learn. It doesn't just present theories, however; it provides concrete suggestions for lessons. It gives teachers a new way to think about their timing in the classroom, the way they present material, and what type of assignments will be most meaningful. I particularly like how it addresses differentiation in the classroom; she stresses that creative thinking is something teachers need to encourage in ALL their students, not just their more accelerated learners; in fact stimulating the minds of the most at-risk students is particularly important. I'll be reading this one over and over, and recommending it to other teachers.
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This is an excellent read that supports the STEM initiative with brain research with suggestions that will work in the classroom. My 22 year old picked up the book when she was visiting and remarked that she wished she and her teachers could have read and practiced techniques because it would have helped her and other students tremendously in school. Just read it!
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