Build the Brain the Common Core Way. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pamela Nevills.
• Authors: Nevills, Pamela
• Contents: Preface; 1. Teaching Can Be Like This; Different Expectations; Real School Examples; School Organization and Student Learning; Another Strong Example; A Brilliant Time to be in Education; 2. Teaching that Looks Different; Common Core - What is so New?; Prepare Teachers; How Teachers Learn to Do What They Do; Learning to Learn; School Revolution Supported by Brain Science; Premium School Practices; The Traditional Lesson Plan; A New Lesson Plan Design; A Different Teacher Evaluation; Trying Something Different; It Matters How Students Feel about School; 3. The Common Core Explained in Common Terms; Neuroscience Provides Answers; Some Basic Information; Know the Players; Look at Assessments; Common Core Assessment Designers; Other Organizations Have Their Say; Deeper Learning Defined; Next-Generation Assessments and Bloom's Taxonomy; The Common Core Standards in Common Language; Common Core for Literacy; Deeper Learning for ELA; What Literacy Standards do not Address; Common Core for Mathematics; Next Generation Science Standards; More Scientists, Engineers, and Mathematicians Needed; Questionable Reviews for NGSS; What is Still Needed?; 4. How Learning Happens; Learning About Learning; Basic Brain Structures; The Site of Working Memory; The Sensory Input Systems; Filtering Systems; Neuroplasticity; Stimulating Classrooms; Memory Systems; Procedural Memory; Semantic Memory; Other Memory and Drill Practices; Deep Learning and Inner Connectivity; 5. So Many Ways to Learn: What Teachers are Doing; A Bold Approach to Lesson Planning; Planning Questions; 6. So Many Ways to Learn: What Students Do; Build in Brain Practices; Experience Concentrating; The Brain - A Pattern Seeking Organ; Rhyming, Rhythms, and Chants; Thinking Maps; Expanding Questions; Leading and Guiding Questions; Self Monitoring and Metacognition; A Study and Practice Episode; Thinking with the Brains CEO; Developing Critical Thinkers; Critical Thinking Skill Development through Metacognition; Use of Media Technology; One Last Useful Idea; 7. Powerful Staff Development for Adult Learners; Staff Development, As Usual; Lost Impact from Training; Look to Teachers first; Research and Professional Development; Core Professional Development Practices; Staff Development, Responding to the Common Core; Teachers as Learners; Teachers as Leaders among their Peers; Teachers as Leaders for Student Learning; Close the Gap; 8. Systems Change; Education Valued; Learning is Performance; Leadership and Student Learning; Soft, Definite Systems Change; What Districts are Doing; Focus on Student Learning; Include all Stakeholders; District Roadmap of Support; Social Relationships and Educational Change; Support Resources; Still to be Resolved; Problems and Answers; 9. Explain the Learning Brain; References;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks, California : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 370; Teaching -- United States; Learning -- United States; Education -- Standards -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483364582; 1483364585
• Related ISBNs: 9781483352961
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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