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Brain Matters: Translating Research into Classroom Practice
By Patricia Wolfe


Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
Number Of Pages: 207
Publication Date: 2001-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0871205173
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780871205179
Binding: Paperback


Book Description:

Everyone agrees that what we do in schools should be based on what we know about how our brain learns. Until recently, however, we have had few clues to unlock the secrets of the brain. Now, research from the neurosciences has greatly improved our understanding of the learning process, and we have a much more solid foundation on which to base educational decisions.

In this book, Patricia Wolfe makes it clear that before we can effectively match teaching practice to brain functioning, we must first understand how the brain functions. In Part I, several chapters act as a mini-textbook on brain anatomy and physiology. Then, in Part II, Wolfe brings brain functioning into clearer focus, describing how the brain encodes, manipulates, and stores information. This information-processing model provides a first look at some implications of the research for practice--why meaning is essential for attention, how emotion can enhance or impede learning, and how different types of rehearsal are necessary for different types of learning.

In Part III, Wolfe devotes several chapters to practical classroom applications and brain-compatible teaching strategies. This section shows how to use simulations, projects, problem-based learning, graphic organizers, music, rhyme and rhythm, writing, active engagement, and mnemonics. Each chapter provides examples using brief scenarios from actual classroom practice, from the lower elementary grades to high school. The book also includes a glossary of terms.


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Brain-Friendly Strategies for the Inclusion Classroom
By Judy Willis


Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Number Of Pages: 227
Publication Date: 2007-05-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1416605398
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781416605393
Binding: Paperback


Product Description:

Many teachers in regular classrooms feel unprepared to teach students with learning disabilities. Fortunately, brain research has confirmed that strategies benefiting learners with special challenges are suited for engaging and stimulating all learners. In this book, neurologist and classroom teacher Judy Willis explains that we can best help students by putting in place strategies, accommodations, and interventions that provide developmentally and academically appropriate challenges to suit the needs, gifts, and goals of each student. Brain-Friendly Strategies for the Inclusion Classroom will help teachers

- Understand how the brain learns and the technologies that reveal this process.
- Implement strategies that are compatible with students' individual learning styles and honor their multiple intelligences.
- Improve the focus of students with attention disorders and help them gain the confidence and skills they need to develop goal-oriented behaviors.
- Create an enriching learning environment by incorporating student-centered activities, discovery and hands-on learning experiences, cross-curricular learning, and multisensory lessons.
- Implement strategic review, study, and test preparation strategies that will allow students to retain information and connect it with future learning.
- Build safe, supportive classroom communities and raise class awareness and empathy for students with learning disabilities.

It's time for teachers to lower the barriers, not the bar. Using strategies that align with research on how people's brains function, teachers can engage all students as individuals and help them reach their maximum potential with joy and confidence.


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Six Thinking Hats: An essential approach to business management
By Edward De Bono


Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Number Of Pages: 207
Publication Date: 1985
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0316177911
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780316177917
Binding: Hardcover


Product Description:

Using case studies and real-life examples of his "six thinking hats", de Bono shows how each of us can become a better thinker through deliberate role-playing.



Summary: "Hats" is a winner.
Rating: 5

While it is an artificial construct, the six hats described in this book can be a significant tool for fostering understanding of multiple facets of any problem and the particular dispositions people may have toward solving them. I am looking forward to using this concept in my fall courses to help students construct new knowledge.


Summary: Approach a problem from multiple viewpoints
Rating: 5

This book discusses six thinking hats. They each have a different color and they each stand for a different fundamental perspective or approach to a problem or issue.

The book discusses how this construct can be used in group meetings where each person is assigned a role. For example, the positive viewpoint would be a person just pointing out all the positives. The other viewpoints include emotional viewpoint, the negative viewpoint, a viewpoint concerning rules of the process, etc.

The reason I liked the book is that it goes into detail on why approaching a problem, an issue or an opportunity should be done by utilizing a multitude of viewpoints. This ensures better thinking.

I thought the book was excellent and highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning to be a better overall critical thinker.