learning

Presents seven strategies teachers can use to help their students increase their capacity to remember information presented in the classroom.

Provides information for educators about differences in learning and teaching styles, features examples of style, and offers advice on how best to respond to diversity in the classroom.

An examination of the memory and learning processes, the functioning of the brain, and memory and learning disorders.

Presents information and teaching strategies based on brain research, covering such topics as language acquisition, the influence of emotions on learning and memory, thinking skills and Bloom's taxonomy, and assessment of concepts.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Provides background information on how and why the strategies outlined in the author's "Learning Structures" workbook are effective, and includes summaries of brain research and cognitive studies.

Discusses the role of assessment in effective teaching, and provides practical tools including developmental checklists, rubrics, portfolio guidelines, interview suggestions, self-evaluation profiles, and several others.

Explains the theory of multiple intelligences developed by Howard Gardner in which he maps a broad range of human abilities by grouping them into seven categories; and discusses how the theory can be applied to issues of classroom teaching, especially with students who have been classified as learning disabled.