psychology of learning

Explains that every child is born with genius qualities that teachers should identify and nurture and describes twelve of those qualities that are often ignored by society, educators, and parents.

Explains what reflective practice is and how it can be implemented in education, discussing reflection by individuals, with partners, in small groups, and by entire schools.

Offers advice to teachers on how to identify and address underlying impediments to learning and help students enhance their learning capabilities through the development of comparative thinking cognitive structures.

Provides background on brain anatomy and physiology, looks at what advances in neuroscience have revealed about brain functioning, discusses the implications of discoveries about how the brain processes information for teaching and learning, and includes practical classroom applications.

Provides researched-based teaching strategies, discussing memory and test-taking success, strategies for captivating students' attention, how stress and emotion affect learning, and assessment.

Explores the implications of discoveries in how the human brain functions for education, describing each of the brain's five major learning systems, including emotional, social, cognitive, physical, and reflective, looking at how they work together, and explaining how teachers can use knowledge of these systems to promote learning in the classroom.

Reports on research from neuroscience, as well as the behavioral and cognitive sciences that reveals how the brain learns, and discusses the implications of these discoveries for educators and their instructional methods.

Discusses possible changes for the way teaching is done, exploring ways of moving away from "telling students what they are supposed to know." Examines letting the books and the students do the talking, separating power and authority, inquiring together, writing, and experiences that teach.

A collection of articles about how the brain functions and how learning occurs; includes advice on how to use the current research about brain functions to create classroom activities that increase a child's focus and learning ability.