Tate, Marcia L

Offers both new teachers and experienced educators twenty techniques to help them reduce learning problems and increase academic achievement by cultivating a physical classroom environment conducive to learning, develop a proactive classroom management plan, deliver brain-compatible lessons, and deal with chronic behavior problems.

Describes twenty strategies teachers may use to engage students' brains in the learning process, based on the findings of learning style theorists and neuroscientists, including the use of humor and stories, the incorporation of games in lessons, singing and dancing, and others.

Offers both new teachers and experienced educators twenty techniques to help them reduce learning problems and increase academic achievement by cultivating a physical classroom environment conducive to learning, develop a proactive classroom management plan, deliver brain-compatible lessons, and deal with chronic behavior problems.

Describes twenty strategies teachers may use to engage students' brains in the learning process, based on the findings of learning style theorists and neuroscientists, including the use of humor and stories, the incorporation of games in lessons, singing and dancing, and others.

Contains twenty strategies for engaging students in social studies and more than two hundred grade-level activities, including project-based and problem-based instruction tips, with graphic organizers, semantic maps, word webs, and internet projects.

Provides twenty brain-compatible strategies for motivating students to learn science that incorporate music, rhyme, storytelling, humor, graphic organizers, manipulatives, and other tools, and includes 250 activities.

" ... describes the theories behind various assessment types and addresses specific ways to create brain-compatible learning environments that foster high achievement. Educators learn how to identify where to begin in the formative assessment process and how to proceed as they develop expertise"--OCLC.

Provides twenty educational techniques to maximize retention and minimize forgetting in students of all ages. Techniques are drawn from both neuroscientific research and learning style theory and are described step-by-step for immediate classroom use. Includes information on how to incorporate interactive fun to existing lessons, including field trips, games, humor, music, and more.

Includes bibliographical references and index.