Empower students with proven strategies for brain-friendly instruction!
This 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