psychology of learning

Provides ten tools to help students improve executive functions such as focus, motivation, organization, self-monitoring, and more.

"This book shows you what is involved in learning new material, how the human brain processes new information, and what it takes for that information to stick with you even after the test"--Back cover.

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.

A guide to creating brain-compatible classrooms that explains how teachers can use these strategies to build a classroom environment that helps the brain function at its best.

"An education researcher maps out the new science of learning, showing how simple techniques like comprehension check-ins and making material personally relatable can help people gain expertise in dramatically better ways than simple rote memorization"--OCLC.

A guide to creating brain-compatible classrooms that explains how teachers can use these strategies to build a classroom environment that helps the brain function at its best.

Explains the major principles and strategies of learning, outlining why it can be so hard sometimes, and yet easy on other occasions, structured in three parts: 'learning within classrooms', 'learning foundations', which explains the cognitive building blocks of knowledge acquisition and 'know thyself' which explores confidence and self-knowledge, and features interactive appendices containing study guide questions to encourage critical thinking.

Provides elementary, secondary, and college and university teachers tips, strategies, and exercises to increase instructional effectiveness.