Becoming a "wiz" at brain-based teaching

how to make every year your best year

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Becoming a "wiz" at brain-based teaching

how to make every year your best year

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Publisher
Corwin Press
Language
English
Pages
211

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Table of Contents

The journey: the brain goes to school
The questions and the research
Connecting the information
Building the yellow brick road: understanding how the brain develops and functions
Basic brain structure
The building blocks
The yellow brick road is paved with messengers
We're off to be the wizard
No place like home
An emotional learning environment
What are enriched environments?
Can we provide an enriched environment in the classroom?
An environment where assessment is enrichment
Brain-based assessment
Home sweet home
If I only had the nerve: dealing with stress
The sympathetic nervous system
Looking for balance: the parasympathetic nervous system
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 intelligence strategies
You gotta have heart, but what about guts?
Heartbeat
If I only had a brain: from sensory input to higher levels of thinking
Cognitive skills
Promoting cognitive growth
The eight intelligences
Brains, bloom, intelligence, and style
Learning profiles
If I only had a memory: improving memory to raise student achievement
Memory development
Memory principles
Explicit and implicit memory
Memory lanes = memory systems
Metacognition
Step by step; system by system
Kansas is right down memory lane
The wicked witch: what is she so upset about? Calming and controlling the classroom
My theory of negative replacement
Emotions, attention, and learning
Brain states
Music
Managing movement
The wicked witch is dead
Dorothy: every brain is unique
The care and feeding of Dorothy's brain
Sleep and the brain
Exercise
Unique brains, unique learners
Making a difference
Leaving the Land of Oz: with courage, passion, and brains
Glossary of terms
References and supplementary reading.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-203) and index.

Published in
Thousand Oaks, CA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
370.15/23
Library of Congress
LB1060 .S69 2007, LB1060.S69 2007

The Physical Object

Pagination
ix, 211 p. :
Number of pages
211

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL17844107M
Internet Archive
becomingwizatbra0000spre_d2o0
ISBN 10
1412927951, 141292796X
ISBN 13
9781412927956, 9781412927963
LCCN
2006023255
OCLC/WorldCat
70684764
Goodreads
407213

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL11817896W

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