Brain-based teaching with adolescent learning in mind / / Glenda Beamon Crawford ; cover designer, Monique Hahn

• Autore: Crawford Glenda Beamon
• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, California : , : Corwin Press, , 2007; ©2007
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 373.1102
• Soggetto topico: High school teaching; Learning, Psychology of; Adolescent psychology
• Persona (resp. second.): HahnMonique
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""About the Author""; ""Chapter 1 - Understanding the Adolescent Learner: the Developing Brain""; ""The Need for Adolescent-Centered Teaching""; ""Adolescent Learning""; ""Adolescent Learning and Developmental Tendencies""; ""Adolescent Learning and Personal Development""; ""Adolescent Learning and Social Development""; ""Adolescent Learning and Intellectual Development""; ""The Interrelatedness of Moral Development""; ""Adolescent Learning and the Developing Brain""; ""Scanned Exuberance""; ""Inside the Adolescent Brain"" ; ""Sizzling Synapses""""The Brain and the Intellect""; ""Mirror Neurons and Cognitive Autonomy""; ""Emotional (Im)maturity or “Just Being Difficultâ€?""; ""Cautions and Implications for Classroom Practice""; ""The Potential Power of Adolescent Metacognition""; ""Promoting Metacognitive Development through Adolescent-Centered Teaching""; ""Chapter 2 - Getting and Keeping Their Attention""; ""The Millennial Generation""; ""The New Geography of Learning""; ""Technology as a Brain/Mind Tool""; ""Designing Web-Based Inquiry""; ""Technology and Multicultural Development"" ; ""Promoting Media Literacy""""Technology and Classroom Diversity""; ""Affirming Diversity""; ""Connecting through Substantive Content""; ""The Shortfall of Fragile Knowledge""; ""The Danger of Low Expectations""; ""Challenge and Brain-Based Instruction""; ""Creating a Safe Place to Think and Learn""; ""Giving Adolescents the Chance to Succeed""; ""Chapter 3 - Creating a Community of Learners""; ""A Better Understanding of Learning""; ""Learning is Active""; ""Learning is Interactive""; ""Visual Organizers""; ""Technology""; ""Newspapers""; ""Noneducators""; ""Peers"" ; ""Distributed Intelligence""""Learning and Knowledge""; ""Nonacademic Influences on Learning""; ""The Social-Emotional Context""; ""Designing Responsive Learning Environments""; ""Schooling Minds Not Memories""; ""Knowledge under Construction""; ""Building Learning Communities""; ""The Context is Authentic and Relevant""; ""The Role of the Extended Community""; ""Learning in the Classroom""; ""Using Assessment as a Cognitive Advantage""; ""Learning Communities and Adolescent Motivation""; ""Learning Communities are Emotionally Safe""; ""Learning Communities Build Emotional Security"" ; ""Learning Communities Promote Inner Management and Self-Regulation""""Learning Communities Promote Adolescent Self-Efficacy""; ""Changing Teacher-Student Roles and Relationships""; ""A Culture of Thoughtfulness""; ""Chapter 4 - Teaching for Thinking and Understanding""; ""Promoting Thinking Development""; ""Getting the Right Mind-set""; ""Trusting That Less is More""; ""Curriculum Designed for Thinking and Learning""; ""Inquiry and Essential Questioning""; ""Questioning for Thinking""; ""Teaching for Understanding""; ""Thinking and Metacognitive Development"" ; ""Teachers as Cognitive Coaches""
• Sommario/riassunto: Presents the newest research on the adolescent brain and offers a framework for linking brain-based teaching to students' social, emotional, and cognitive needs.
• Titolo autorizzato: Brain-based teaching with adolescent learning in mind
• ISBN: 1-4522-9724-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797601303321
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