learning and scholarship

Describes each of the eight intelligences by which people learn, and offers advice to teachers on how to appeal to the eight intelligences in order to help students move beyond memorization to a real understanding of facts and concepts and their application outside the classroom.

Collects nearly one hundred alphabetically arranged entries that discuss education and child development issues for kindergarten through twelfth grade students; and covers curriculum development, learning theories, the prenatal brain, classroom management, and more ; and includes cross-references, bibliography, and glossary.

Chronicles the intellectual history of Western civilization since the classical period, focusing on key moments of cultural transformation, and considering how the past contributes to an understanding of the changes taking place in the twenty-first-century landscape of knowledge.

Describes the neurobiology of learning and memory, covering forms of learning, memory stages and organization, molecular mechanisms of learning and memory, learning and memory in invertebrates, long-term potentiation, and ways of enhancing and disrupting memory.

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.

Explores the many different intellectual achievements of humans throughout history.

Presents a comprehensive guide to improving academic performance through self-hypnosis and offers methods for overcoming some of the common roadblocks to learning.

The author applies a baseball metaphor to explain seven teaching principles that encourage effective teaching methods for all subjects and grade levels.

Examines research on human learning, including recent developments from neuroscience; looks at learning research that has implications for the design of formal instructional environments, from preschool through college; and analyzes research that helps explore the possibility of helping all individuals achieve their fullest potential.

Contains step-by-step guidance for applying visible learning techniques, covering lesson preparation, feedback during lessons, and follow-up afterwards, and includes checklists, exercises, case studies, and best practice scenarios.