learning

Provides an overview of MI theory and examines its implications for assessment and teaching from preschool to college admissions.

Offers advice on how teachers can implement the latest motivational methods into their classroom curriculum, encouraging students to connect, be competent, make choices, have fun, and be safe while learning.

Offers advice to teachers on how to identify and address underlying impediments to learning and help students enhance their learning capabilities through the development of comparative thinking cognitive structures.

Provides background on brain anatomy and physiology, looks at what advances in neuroscience have revealed about brain functioning, discusses the implications of discoveries about how the brain processes information for teaching and learning, and includes practical classroom applications.

Provides researched-based teaching strategies, discussing memory and test-taking success, strategies for captivating students' attention, how stress and emotion affect learning, and assessment.

Offers advice to educators on how to reach twenty-first-century adolescent learners, providing resources for the content areas, and including vignettes and examples.

A brief biography emphasizing the importance of learning in the life of the scientist who was awarded the Nobel prize for her work in chemistry.

Draws on fifteen years of research and more than eight hundred meta-analyses to examine the factors that influence achievement in school-aged students.

Essays that challenge accepted viewpoints on major issues in education.

Studies the theory of multiple intelligences and discusses how teachers can use the theory to structure lessons, help students learn, and use music, movement, and imagery to teach.