cognitive learning

Provides tools and advice for educators to use explicit instruction for efficient classroom teaching, explaining how to identify and design effective lessons around key concepts, and including samples of lesson plans, reproducible checklists, and teacher worksheets.

Author merges cognitive science with the educational agenda, showing how ill-suited our minds and natural patterns of learning are to current educational practices.

A practical resource guide for the kindergarten through twelfth-grade reading classroom that includes lessons, reproducibles, posters, ideas for differentiating instruction, and tips for using reciprocal teaching as a Response to Intervention.

Presents a comprehensive manual for the sixth through twelfth-grade classroom that helps students develop critical thinking skills, and contains language activities on problem solving, identifying cause and effect, comparing and classifying, evaluating, and more.

The author describes brain-based, visual teaching strategies that have worked in her long career as an educator, and explains the science behind those techniques.

Discusses the importance of the visual arts to the overall development of the mind, looks at some of the problems inhibiting art education, and considers the ways in which the development of artistic interests and ability contribute to cognition and learning and the construction of cultural meaning.