psychology of learning

Describes the conditions that promote learning in schools,hospitals, and corporations and uses examples of real schools to demonstrate how those conditions apply to students in the classroom.

Presents a guide to learning for teachers, focusing on changing students' thinking about success and performance, how to build a growth mindset school culture, and developing students' conceptual understanding of learning and the brain.

Explores the biological gender differences which influence how boys and girls learn and discusses how the American education system can be adapted to better serve various learning rates.

Neurologist and middle-school teacher Willis describes a number of strategies that educators in inclusion classrooms can use to engage students with and without learning disabilities. These instructional practices draw upon findings from recent research on the learning brain. A number of sample lesson plans for inclusion class activities are provided in the appendix, along with a glossary and an extensive bibliography. Annotation ?2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Explains how educators can unleash genuine student potential by understanding the interconnectedness of the brain, mind, and body and by changing their perceptual orientation.

Presents information and teaching strategies based on brain research, covering such topics as language acquisition, the influence of emotions on learning and memory, thinking skills and Bloom's taxonomy, and assessment of concepts.

Expert teacher and trainer Susan Jones offers a reality-based approach to classroom instruction designed to help students in kindergarten through twelfth grade achieve life long success.