Using Brainpower in the Classroom
Five Steps to Accelerate Learning
1st Edition
Published on 11. August 2005
Book
Hardback
172 pages
978-0-415-34382-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. The five steps involve:
making learning multi-sensory
ensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learner
matching types of learning to the gender of pupils
using the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the brain
managing the classroom environment to make it brain-friendly and active in supporting learning.
Illustrated throughout with classroom examples from a wide range of subject areas, the book is highly practical in its focus and the ideas it contains can easily be adapted to work with all age ranges and types of school.
making learning multi-sensory
ensuring activities match the dominant intelligence of the learner
matching types of learning to the gender of pupils
using the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the brain
managing the classroom environment to make it brain-friendly and active in supporting learning.
Illustrated throughout with classroom examples from a wide range of subject areas, the book is highly practical in its focus and the ideas it contains can easily be adapted to work with all age ranges and types of school.
Reviews / Votes
'If the learning styles juggernaut has passed you by until now, this book is a handy synthesis of current thinking. There are chapters on learning, cognition, gender, structuring lessons and the physical environment. The benefit of Steve Garnett's book is its simple, clear format and uncomplicated style. That's important because these are topics that people too frequently feel it is in their interest to complicate.' - Geoff Barton, TES'This book has the merit of giving a concise overview of various theories related to learning and intelligence, and provides a good number of hints to make use of these in practice. Hence, it can have outcomes that are interesting and useful to teachers and parents who wish to support youngsters' mental development.' - British Journal of Educational Technology
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Education, Psychology of Education, Teaching materials
Illustrations
8 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 20 s/w Zeichnungen, 20 s/w Tabellen
20 Tables, black and white; 20 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-34382-4 (9780415343824)
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02/2006
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02/2006
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07/2005
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Person
Senior manager at a UK comprehensive school, he is also an experienced training provider delivering training in the Primary, Secondary and Independent sectors across the Nottinghamshire to teachers representing over 300 schools.
Content
Introduction; Chapter 1 Learning; Chapter 2 Cognition - intelligence and thinking; Chapter 3 Gender; Chapter 4 The whole lesson; Chapter 5 Physical environment;