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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786229903321

Autore

Smilkstein Rita

Titolo

We're born to learn : using the brain's natural learning process to create today's curriculum / / Rita Smilkstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Corwin, c2011

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin, a SAGE Company, , [2011]

�2011

ISBN

1-4522-9565-4

1-4522-7506-8

1-4522-9854-8

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvii, 248 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Classificazione

EDU029000

Disciplina

370.1523

Soggetti

Learning

Curriculum planning

Brain - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the New Edition; About the Author; Introduction; PART I: Research in the Classroom and in the Brain Lab; 1 - Learning and Teaching; 2 - How People Learn; 3 - How the Brain Learns; 4 - Personal Experience, Individual Differences, and Learning; 5 - The Student's Experience; PART II: Theory and Application; 6 - Sequencing of the Curriculum; 7 - The Pedagogical Model and Guidelines; PART III: Using the Brain's Natural Learning Process to Create Curricula; 8 - Brain-Based,Natural Learning Across the Curriculum

9 - Curriculum Development for Units, Courses, and ProgramsReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This updated edition of the bestselling book on the brain's natural learning process brings new research results and applications in a power-packed teacher tool kit. Rita Smilkstein shows teachers how to create and deliver curricula that help students become the motivated, successful, and natural learners they were born to be.