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40 Engaging Brain-Based Tools for the Classroom

Use these practical, brain-friendly tools to engage learners and impact student achievement!

This flexible guide converts the latest findings on brain research into fun and effective techniques for introducing brain-compatible learning in the K–12 classroom. With an emphasis on developing educators' understanding of how the mind and body function in the learning process, this holistic model offers:

  • 40 brain-friendly tools for improving learning and test results
  • A brain-based review feature that helps readers evaluate and modify the tools to meet students' needs
  • Stimulating quotes and motivational proverbs for inspiration
  • Stories, songs, poems, and anecdotes woven throughout the text

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: K-12
  • ISBN: 9781412949149
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2008
  • Page Count: 144
  • Publication date: October 14, 2008

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Description

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"Scaddan has collected many positive, easy-to-read ideas that will be helpful for educators."
—Eric Jensen, Educational Consultant

"This book honors the art and science of teaching and learning. Read it, use it, and carry it from school to school, classroom to classroom for decades. This book is a backpack full of ideas, strategies, and activities to enhance brains and enrich hearts."
—Glenn Capelli, Churchill Fellow
True Learning Centre, Australia

"This is the missing link in so many of our schools' curriculum. Scaddan sparks the joy of learning in children and builds relationships between teachers and learners. A must-have for administrators, teachers, counselors, and anyone interested in understanding what it takes to make a difference."
—Nancy G . Peterson, Educational Consultant

Use these practical, brain-friendly tools to engage learners and impact student achievement!

Educators looking for proven methods to introduce brain-compatible instruction into K–12 classrooms will find invaluable assistance in this easy-to-read, engaging resource. The author helps teachers understand how the brain, mind, and body function in the learning process, demonstrates methods to reinforce students' memory and concentration, and illustrates ways to enhance learners' outcomes across a broad range of skills.

This flexible guide converts the latest findings on brain research into fun and effective techniques for reducing behavioral distractions in class, improving academic performance, and strengthening teachers' instructional skills. Within a holistic brain-based teaching model, this practical book offers:

  • 40 brain-friendly tools for improving learning and test results
  • A brain-based review feature that helps readers evaluate and modify the tools to meet students' needs
  • Stimulating quotes and motivational proverbs for inspiration
  • Stories, songs, poems, and anecdotes woven throughout the text

This guide is ideal for empowering students and helping them take ownership of their learning.


Key features

  • Offers 40 tools from a successful model developed by the author on brain-based learning that K-12 teachers can utilize immediately in their classrooms to get their student engaged in the content, impacting student achievement. 
  • Stimulating quotes and motivational proverbs about brain-based learning inspiring teachers to encourage all their students to achieve. 
  • Brain-based Review feature encourages the reader to critically reflect upon the tools in each section in order to get educators thinking about what works or could work in their classroom.
  • Tips, strategies, stories, songs, poems and anecdotes are sprinkled throughout to provide the educator with engaging brain-compatible techniques that can benefit all learners.  
 
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Michael A. Scaddan

Michael A. Scaddan is an international educational consultant who works in the USA, Australasia, Asia, and Europe. He is the author of 40 Engaging Brain-Based Tools for the Classroom as well as 24 training manuals and 3 educational DVDs. He has a background in elementary and adult teaching as well as being a highly successful principal and was recently selected as patron for The Hungarian Brain Based Institute.

As a school principal, he continued to be a practical, hands-on educator, teaching all levels of children through an innovative Learn to Learn program. This enabled him to develop hundreds of useful and practical classroom tips as well as fine-tune successful schoolwide techniques that are now passed on to fellow educators.

Always looking for a better way, he has extensive training in brain-compatible learning, completing an MEd in accelerated learning at the University of Tasmania.

Scaddan is now CEO of Brain Stems Ltd., a brain-compatible training organization, and has worked as a full-time learning consultant in the USA, Sweden, Hungary, India, and Australia, as well as throughout New Zealand. He has recently been employed as an educational consultant to the government of Thailand.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments


About the Author


Introduction


Part I. Enhancing Relationships


1. Emotional Learning

2. Metaphors

3. Rules or Agreements

4. Choice

5. Anti-Stress Techniques

Review

6. Put Ups

7. Breathing Techniques

8. Relaxation

9. Eliminating Extrinsic Rewards

10. Punishment and Consequences

Review

Part II. Developing Patterns and Coherence


11. Contamination

12. Concentration

13. State Changes

14. Cross Overs

Review

15. Improving Memory Links

16. Memory Techniques

17. Rough Draft

18. Elaboration

19. Repetition

20. Themes

Review

Part III. Promoting Understanding: A Model for a "Learn to Learn" Framework


21. Input-Learning Styles

22. Learning Preferences

23. Multiple Intelligences

Review

24. Motivators

25. Four Great Questions

26. WIIFM

27. Pulling Your Own Strings

28. Goal Setting

29. Myfirmations

30. Overviews

Review

Academic Data

Part IV. Putting It All Together


31. Framing

32. Pre-wiring

33. Loops

34. Feedback

35. Mind Maps and Mindscapes

36. Reflection

37. Lo, Mo, Ho

38. Inclusive Statements

39. Response Time

Something to Aim for

40. Hands Free: An Expectation to Answer

Conclusion


Suggested Reading


References


Index


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