cognitive styles in children

Provides advice on using brain-friendly strategies to develop the writing skills of students and discusses how to create a brain-compatible classroom, integrating test preparation with instruction, and other related topics.

Reexamines nine familiar fairy tales and provides suggestions on how they may be used in the home and schools to introduce and teach important new skills such as creative and productive thinking, critical thinking, and creative problem solving to students of all ages.

Explains a way of thinking about differentiated instruction and provides real-world examples of lesson plans, units, and classroom scenarios used with elementary and secondary students.

Offers ready-to-use strategies, lessons, and activities educators can use to help students with diverse learning styles, ability levels, skills, and behaviors; and includes over one hundred reproducible management tools.

Explains a way of thinking about differentiated instruction and provides real-world examples of lesson plans, units, and classroom scenarios used with elementary and secondary students.

Max Leonard, convinced he is horrible at math because he experiences test anxiety every time the teacher starts the timer, amazes everyone by his ability to complete algebra problem sets.

Journalist Paul Tough discusses what he believes creates successful children, looking at why some succeed and others fail and how to move individual children toward their full potential for success.

A comprehensive guide to multiple intelligences for teachers that explains what the multiple intelligences theory is, how it can be incorporated into the classroom, and why it is so important for a well-rounded curriculum, with practical strategies for MI lessons, centers, projects, theme units, and more.