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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797453803321

Autore

Tileston Donna Walker

Titolo

What every teacher should know about learning, memory, and the brain / / Donna Walker Tileston ; acquisitions editor Faye Zucker ; copy editor Kristin Bergstad ; cover designer Tracy E. Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-4833-6022-9

1-4833-6241-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 p.)

Collana

What Every Teacher Should Know About

Disciplina

370.15

Soggetti

Learning, Psychology of

Cognitive learning

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""; ""About the Author""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Vocabulary Pre-Test""; ""Chapter 1 - Learning with the Mind, Heart, and Body""; ""Incoming Information""; ""Processing Information""; ""The Cognitive System""; ""Chapter 2 - How Do We Acquire and Process Information?""; ""Visual Learners""; ""Auditory Learners""; ""Kinesthetic Learners""; ""The Perceptual Register""; ""Short-Term Memory""; ""Working Memory""; ""Information Processing""; ""Chapter 3 - Working Memory""; ""Meaning""; ""Making Sense of the Learning""; ""Chapter 4 - Long-Term Memory Pathways""

""Memory Pathways""""The Semantic Memory System""; ""Retrieving from Semantic Memory""; ""The Episodic Memory System""; ""Retrieving from Episodic Memory""; ""The Procedural Memory System""; ""Retrieving from Procedural Memory""; ""Chapter 5 - Teaching for Declarative and Procedural Knowledge""; ""Declarative Knowledge""; ""Constructing Meaning""; ""Storing Declarative Information""; ""Procedural Knowledge""; ""Constructing Mental Models""; ""Shaping""; ""Automaticity""; ""Using Declarative and rocedural Objectives in Lessons""; ""Chapter 6 - Building a Model to Facilitate Learning""

""Vocabulary Summary""""Vocabulary Post-Test""; ""References""; ""Index""