Lyons, Carol A

A guide to planning and implementing a literacy professional development course for teachers, sharing information about classroom and adult learning, offering suggestions for implementing an effective professional development system, discussing coaching in the professional development context, and exploring issues in the modern educational environment.

Examines discoveries in neuroscience on how the brain develops and on the link between cognition and emotion, looks at interactions between teachers and students that lead to accelerated reading and writing progress, and discusses the reasoning of expert teachers.