Becoming a "Wiz" at Brain-Based Teaching : How to Make Every Year Your Best Year /: How to Make Every Year Your Best Year. ([2007])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Marilee Sprenger.
• Other Names: Sprenger, Marilee, 1949-
• Contents: Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; 1. The Journey: The Brain Goes to School; The Questions and the Research; Connecting the Information; 2. Building the Yellow Brick Road: Understanding How the Brain Develops and Functions; Basic Brain Structure; The Building Blocks; The Yellow Brick Road Is Paved With Messengers; We're Off to Be the Wizard; 3. No Place Like Home; An Emotional Learning Environment; What Are Enriched Environments?; Can We Provide an Enriched Environment in the Classroom?; An Environment Where Assessment Is Enrichment; Brain-Based Assessment; Home Sweet Home; 4. If I Only Had the Nerve: Dealing With Stress; The Sympathetic Nervous System; Looking for Balance: The Parasympathetic Nervous System; Giving Them Courage; 5. If I Only Had a Heart: Emotional Growth; Heartbreak: The Lack of Social and Emotional Stimulation; Creating Heart: A Look at Emotional Intelligence; Heart-to-Heart; Straight From the Heart: Social and Emotional Intelligence Strategies; You Gotta Have Heart, But What About Guts?; Heartbeat; 6. If I Only Had a Brain: From Sensory Input to Higher Levels of Thinking; Cognitive Skills; Promoting Cognitive Growth; The Eight Intelligences; Brains, Bloom, Intelligence, and Style; Learning Profiles; 7. If I Only Had a Memory: Improving Memory to Raise Student Achievement; Memory Development; Memory Principles; Explicit and Implicit Memory; Memory Lanes = Memory Systems; Metacognition; Step by Step; System by System; Kansas Is Right Down Memory Lane; 8. The Wicked Witch: What Is She So Upset About? Calming and Controlling the Classroom; My Theory of Negative Replacement; Emotions, Attention, and Learning; Brain States; Music; Managing Movement; The Wicked Witch Is Dead; 9. Dorothy: Every Brain Is Unique; The Care and Feeding of Dorothy?s Brain; Sleep and the Brain; Exercise; Unique Brains, Unique Learners; Making a Difference; 10. Leaving the Land of Oz: With Courage, Passion, and Brains; Glossary of Terms; References and Supplementary Reading; Index;
• Edition: Second Edition
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 370.1523; Learning, Psychology of; Brain; Teaching
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483362007; 1483362000
• Related ISBNs: 9781412927956; 1412927951; 9781412927963; 141292796X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.