Becoming a "wiz" at brain-based teaching
Subtitle: how to make every year your best year
By: Marilee Sprenger.
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781412927956; 9781412927963
Subjects: Learning, Psychology of; Brain; Teaching
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-203) and index.
Table of contents: title: The journey: the brain goes to school; title: The questions and the research; title: Connecting the information; title: Building the yellow brick road: understanding how the brain develops and functions; title: Basic brain structure; title: The building blocks; title: The yellow brick road is paved with messengers; title: We're off to be the wizard; title: No place like home; title: An emotional learning environment; title: What are enriched environments?; title: Can we provide an enriched environment in the classroom?; title: An environment where assessment is enrichment; title: Brain-based assessment; title: Home sweet home; title: If I only had the nerve: dealing with stress; title: The sympathetic nervous system; title: Looking for balance: the parasympathetic nervous system; title: Giving them courage; title: If I only had a heart: emotional growth; title: Heartbreak: the lack of social and emotional stimulation; title: Creating heart: a look at emotional intelligence; title: Heart-to-heart; title: Straight from the heart: social and emotional intelligence strategies; title: You gotta have heart, but what about guts?; title: Heartbeat; title: If I only had a brain: from sensory input to higher levels of thinking; title: Cognitive skills; title: Promoting cognitive growth; title: The eight intelligences; title: Brains, bloom, intelligence, and style; title: Learning profiles; title: If I only had a memory: improving memory to raise student achievement; title: Memory development; title: Memory principles; title: Explicit and implicit memory; title: Memory lanes = memory systems; title: Metacognition; title: Step by step; system by system; title: Kansas is right down memory lane; title: The wicked witch: what is she so upset about? Calming and controlling the classroom; title: My theory of negative replacement; title: Emotions, attention, and learning; title: Brain states; title: Music; title: Managing movement; title: The wicked witch is dead; title: Dorothy: every brain is unique; title: The care and feeding of Dorothy's brain; title: Sleep and the brain; title: Exercise; title: Unique brains, unique learners; title: Making a difference; title: Leaving the Land of Oz: with courage, passion, and brains; title: Glossary of terms; title: References and supplementary reading.