Science Worksheets Dont Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain

You will find this text an invaluable addition to your professional library since the strategies contained in it not only increase academic achievement and decrease behavior problems for all students, they also make teaching and learning so much fun! Designed for easy implementation, the material includes an overview of adult learning theory, more than professional learning strategies, several sample professional learning designs, and opportunities to reflect on and apply the presented strategies.

Supported by both learning-style theory and brain research, the strategies enable all staff development professionals to plan and deliver powerful, memorable presentations that improve teaching practices and increase academic achievement. The material is suitable for anyone who teaches adults, including staff developers, trainers, principals, teacher leaders, and educational consultants. Classroom management is the number one issue for many new teachers and experienced educators alike. Many reactive teachers wait for problems to occur and then decide how to deal with them.

They allow students to fall off cliffs and then put them in ambulances and rush them to the office.

Effective classroom managers are proactive, not reactive. They put plans in place so that many students never reach the edge of the cliff.

The second edition of this bestseller introduces teachers to five proactive categories they can use to detour students around the dangers of cliff-falling , or misbehavior. According to experts in the field, reading and language arts skills are best acquired when students are actively engaged in their own learning. This book contains over pieces of research in support of 20 brain-based literacy strategies and more than activities for implementing those strategies as students learn to read or read to learn. As a classroom teacher and reading specialist, Dr. Marcia Tate has personally used and also witnessed the impressive use of the literacy strategies contained in the pages of this text.

Make reading a life-long love for your students! And when brain-compatible strategies are used to teach math, this acronym can become true for most students.

This bestselling book focuses on using 20 brain-compatible strategies to teach the core areas of algebra, geometry, numbers and operations, data analysis and probability, problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication connections, and representation. Each of the 20 chapters is devoted to a different instructional strategy along with the research behind why that strategy works for teaching math.

The chapters also offer a multitude of activities for integrating these strategies into math lessons, and conclude with a reflection page where teachers can determine the appropriate use of each strategy for a specific lesson. The Resource section at the end provides a lesson plan template for planning and delivering unforgettable, brain-compatible math lessons.

Included are 20 proven strategies and more than grade-level activities for applying them. Teachers will find concrete ways to integrate national social studies content standards into their curriculum with visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile experiences that maximize retention, including: This book provides sample lesson plans and a wealth of examples that demonstrate how to apply these classroom-tested strategies to the 10 themes of social studies.

The text also challenges teachers to creatively plan and deliver their own unforgettable lessons. Learning in the Fast Lane.

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