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A guide to cognitive type theory and learning style, describing each of the eight choices defined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator for determining preferences in the context of teaching and learning; and including related readings on learning style and type theory.

Presents the Dimensions of Learning teaching model for grades K-12, which integrates the five types of thinking that comprise the learning process; explicitly teaches mental habits and attitudes that facilitate learning; and focuses on students' use of knowledge instead of information recall.

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.

Offers teachers more than 150 activities and tools designed to improve students' moods, energy levels, and emotional states in the classroom in order to facilitate learning.

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.

A practical guide that describes available research on adolescent brain development, and provides strategies for developing students' social, emotional, and cognitive needs.

Argues that educators and parents greatly underestimate students' achievement capacity, explains how the brain can be enriched to maximize learning, memory, behavior, and overall function, and offers tips on how to improve a child's brain function at any age.

Presents a look at what it means to comprehend, with regard to literacy instruction, identifying dimensions and outcomes of understanding, encouraging teachers to focus on essential content and use research-based teaching and learning strategies over long periods of time, and to give students many opportunities to apply those concepts.