psychology of learning

"Upgrade Your Teaching merges discoveries from neuroscience with the Understanding by Design framework to help teachers improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment"-- Provided by publisher.

Provides information on the implementation of guided instruction, covering questioning, prompting, cueing, explaining, and modeling and providing examples for each element.

A collection of fourteen essays which discusses technology's influence on learning, debating the effectiveness of online classes, the Internet, and social networking, and other related topics.

"Offers practices and strategies that help kids and teachers alike develop a more resilient approach to embarrassment."--Publisher.

Offering information for use inside and outside of the classroom, this educational resource delineates how black males learn differently from other students and what can be done to most effectively reach them. Outlining the differences as both behavioral (attention span, aggression, maturation, energy level, and pressure from peers) and educational (verbal skills, organization, gross and fine motor skills, and reading interests) among others, this proposal provides real-world experiences alongside theories, making this an essential guide for educators, parents, counselors, psychologists, and others involved with black male adolescents. A section on how the majority of teachers, who are nonblack and female, can extend their education to overcome differences within the normal classroom setting, and help to reduce the number of black males in special education, is also provided.

Explains why it is important for teachers and parents to understand the impact prevalent trauma has on the lives of students, their learning, and behavior and explores how teachers can help those students have a promising future.

The author offers his formula for feedback, SE2R (Summarize, Explain, Redirect, Resubmit), as a way to break classroom dependence on the traditional A through F grading system and find other ways to motivate students to learn and achieve.

Presents twenty-five formative assessment probes for math knowledge in grades three through five and aligned to the Common Core.

Explains the cognitive and biological basis for learning and provides insight on how teachers can use story, emotion, memory, context, and routine to improve student knowledge and the learning experience.