Empower students with proven strategies for brain-friendly instruction!
This revised fourth edition offers more than 1,000 brain research–based teaching strategies along with reflections, affirmations, sidebars, bulleted lists, quotable quotes, and a wealth of instructional tools. The author shows how to improve instructional effectiveness, plan standards-based lessons, and optimize student learning with practical techniques such as:
- Matching instruction with learners′ developmental stages
- Responding to unique learning styles with differentiated techniques
- Using assessment as part of instruction
- Addressing the learning needs of students in poverty
- Managing students′ emotions with music and energizers
- Practicing positive teaching mind-sets to enhance student results