Becoming a "Wiz" at Brain-Based Teaching; How to Make Every Year Your Best Year
by Marilee SprengerEdition: 2nd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-12-07
Publisher(s): Sage Pubns
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Summary
With Wizard of Oz metaphors and new graphic organizers, illustrations, and sidebars, this revision helps teachers translate current research on learning, memory, and the brain into effective classroom practice.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| About the Author | |
| Introduction | |
| The Journey: The Brain Goes to School | |
| Researching | |
| The Outcome | |
| Following the Yellow Brick Road: Understanding Brain Structure and Function | |
| Basic Brain Structure | |
| Chemical Messengers | |
| The Road Home | |
| If I Only Had the Nerve: Dealing With Stress | |
| The Lion's Not Lying | |
| Giving Them Courage | |
| If I Only Had a Heart: Emotional Growth | |
| Heartbreak: The Lack of Social and Emotional Stimulation | |
| Creating Heart: A Look at Emotional Intelligence | |
| Heart-to-Heart | |
| Straight from the Heart: Social and Emotional Growth Strategies | |
| Heartbeat | |
| If I Only Had a Brain: Complex Cognitive Skills | |
| Cognitive Skills | |
| Promoting Cognitive Growth | |
| Memory Lanes | |
| Metacognition | |
| The Eight Intelligences | |
| Which Witch Is Which? Calming and Controlling the Classroom | |
| My Theory of Negative Replacement | |
| Emotions, Attentions, and Learning | |
| Brain States | |
| Music | |
| The Wicked Witch Is Dead | |
| Dorothy: Teaching Different Brains | |
| The Care and Feeding of Dorothy's Brain | |
| Unique Brains, Unique Learners | |
| Making a Difference | |
| No Place Like Home: The Learning Environment | |
| What Are Enriched Environments? | |
| Can We Provide an Enriched Environment in the Classroom? | |
| Enrichment and Assessment: Are They Compatible? | |
| Brain-Based Assessment | |
| Home Away From Home | |
| Glossary of Terms | |
| References and Supplementary Reading | |
| Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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