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 Science Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites –
20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain
A brain-friendly guide for motivating students to live, eat, and breathe science!
Best-selling author and renowned educator Marcia L. Tate brings her trademark practicality to teachers seeking the latest brain-compatible tools for engaging students and bringing science to life in the classroom. Co-authored with award-winning science teacher Warren G. Phillips, this must-have resource includes 20 proven brain-compatible strategies and 250 activities for applying them. Teachers will find concrete ways to integrate national science content standards into their curriculum with visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile experiences that maximize retention, including:
- Music, rhythm, rhyme, and rap
- Storytelling and humor
- Graphic organizers, semantic maps, and word webs
- Manipulatives, experiments, labs, and models
- Internet and Excel projects
The book covers a full range of K–12 science subjects, including physical, life, earth and space science, and provides brain-compatible sample lesson plans. Each chapter offers real-life examples; a what, why, and how for each strategy; activities; and note pages for brainstorming how to implement these exciting new ideas.
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Preparing Children for Success in School and Life –
20 Ways to Enhance Your Child’s Brain Power
To be released in 2011.
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 Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites
20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain
(Second Edition)
Make learning an unforgettable experience for you and your students with brain-compatible strategies!
How can I improve my students' retention of what they have learned? For any teacher asking this vital question, the second edition of Marcia L. Tate's bestseller offers 20 field-tested, brain-compatible instructional strategies that maximize memory, engagement, and learning for every student.
Each concise chapter provides an overview of the brain research and learning style theory behind a specific strategy, sample classroom activities that can be used immediately, and an opportunity to reflect on how to apply the strategy in instruction. Teachers will learn how to make their classrooms come alive with active learning techniques such as:
- Using graphic organizers, semantic maps, and word webs
- Engaging students through music, rhythm, rhyme, and rap
- Harnessing the power of reciprocal teaching and cooperative learning
- Implementing project-based and problem-based instruction
- Leading students through visualization and guided imagery exercises
Because students learn best when they are focused and engaged, these research-based teaching strategies enable teachers not only to promote long-term retention of information, but also to increase student motivation and academic success.
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 "Sit and Get" Won't Grow Dendrites
Actively engage teachers, rekindle their passion for teaching, and take advantage of the ways the brain learns best!
Research and experience prove that students learn better when teachers use brain-based strategies. The same is true with adult learners. However, the very strategies that are recommended for teachers to use in instructing students are seldom reflected in staff development workshops.
"Sit and Get" Won’t Grow Dendrites draws on the latest research in brain-based learning, differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, and adult learning to provide strategies that not only motivate adult learners but also increase understanding and long-term retention. Author Marcia Tate defines each strategy, explains its theoretical framework in easy-to-understand language, provides multiple professional learning activities that staff developers can incorporate immediately, and includes a guided reflection and application section.
Designed for easy implementation, this practical handbook includes:
- An overview of adult learning theory
- More than 150 professional learning activities
- Several sample professional learning designs
- Opportunities to reflect on and apply the presented strategies
Supported by both learning-style theory and brain research, Tate’s strategies enable all staff development professionals to plan and deliver powerful, memorable presentations that improve teaching practices and increase academic achievement.
This indispensable staff development resource is suitable for anyone who teaches adults, including staff developers, trainers, principals, teacher leaders, and educational consultants.
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 Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites -
20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain
What if your students were motivated and actively engaged in reading and language arts activities?
According to experts in the field, reading and language arts skills are best acquired when students are actively engaged in their own learning. Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites focuses on brain-based literacy strategies for Grades K-12, structured around the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English standards. It contains over 300 activities from hundreds of teachers as well as the author’s own classroom models.
This practical resource is dedicated to literacy strategies that apply to the way students learn to read and read to learn. These hands-on techniques will help you teach reading in relevant, motivating, and engaging ways. The activities cover essential areas of literacy instruction, including:
- Phonemic awareness
- Phonics and vocabulary instruction
- Text comprehension
- Reading authentically, widely, and strategically
- Writing strategically
- Creating, critiquing, and discussing texts
- Conducting research
- Using technological resources
- Respecting diversity in language
- Participating in literary communities
- Using language to accomplish purposes
Unless students are involved and actively engaged in learning, true learning rarely occurs. Invite your students to use their higher-level thinking skills, increase their comprehension, and make the learning their own!
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 Mathematics Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites
20 Numeracy Strategies That Engage the Brain
Engage students in effective, meaningful experiences in mathematics!
Students engaged in active learning experiences gain long-term retention of the skills and content they learn. In this user-friendly guide, Marcia L. Tate follows the successful format of her previous bestsellers and offers math teachers 20 powerful, brain-based teaching strategies that translate into meaningful firsthand experiences for all learners.
Mathematics Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites provides educators with creative ways to incorporate visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile modalities and promote increased academic achievement in mathematics. The author also focuses on the core NCTM focal points for algebra, geometry, numbers and operations, data analysis and probability, problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, connections, and representation. The chapters offer:
- A what, why, and how for each strategy
- Specific brain-compatible mathematics activities and lessons submitted by real teachers from across the country
- Space for teachers to reflect on and apply individual strategies in their lessons
With a bibliography of math and literature resources and a lesson planning guide, this book can transform classrooms into places where students excel academically and where learning is fun!
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 Shouting Won't Grow Dendrites -
20 Techniques for Managing a Brain-Compatible Classroom
Stop shouting and start teaching!
Classroom management is the number one issue for both new teachers and experienced educators. Best-selling author Marcia L. Tate shows that with appropriate planning, a classroom manager can reduce learning problems and increase academic achievement. She demonstrates how to cultivate a physical classroom environment conducive to learning, develop a proactive classroom management plan, deliver brain-compatible lessons, and deal with chronic behavior problems.
Providing easy-to-implement strategies, this reader-friendly guide covers the use of lighting, music, humor, constructive conversations, movement, classroom rituals, and parental support to actively engage students in a positive way.
Each chapter follows a consistent structure and contains:
- A clear definition of the strategy
- The strategy’s theoretical framework
- Numerous sample classroom applications
- Reflective activities for creating your own strategies
A renowned speaker, Tate has taught over 350,000 teachers, parents, and community leaders worldwide. Designed to complement her other best-selling books, this new work is sure to be an essential resource for all teachers.
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