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Jump-Start the Adult Learner

How to Engage and Motivate Adults Using Brain-Compatible Strategies

By: Laurie Materna

Use brain-based learning techniques for powerful staff development!

Combining adult education theory with brain-compatible learning, Laurie Materna offers practical, brain-friendly instructional approaches for any adult learning environment. This easy-to-use guide features background information on adult learning styles, memory, and how the brain learns. Engaging, interactive strategies include graphic organizers, music energizers, exercise activities, and self-assessments, and each strategy comes with a wide range of real-life examples. Educators will be able to motivate adult learners to:

Become more self-directed in their own learning
Improve their ability to recall, comprehend, and apply complex information
Unleash their creative potential as they explore a variety of learning modalities

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412952941
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2007
Page Count: 232
Publication date: March 12, 2014

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"Overall this text is a very interesting read with significant applicability to both advisors and faculty. The creative advisor will have no problem synthesizing Materna's ideas and theories of brain-compatible learning strategies into daily interactions with students and faculty." —Jennifer Varney, Hesser College

"This outstanding book combines neuroscience and education to create an energetic and practical guide to the adult brain. You'll finish it feeling as if you've just been entertained and enlightened."
—Sheryl Feinstein, Augustana College

Use brain-based learning techniques for powerful staff development!

Brain-compatible learning promotes the brain's natural capacity to learn, and more and more educators have been using this technique to help young students become successful learners. By combining adult education theory with brain-compatible learning, noted educator Laurie Materna offers practical, brain-friendly instructional approaches for working with adults in both informal and formal environments.

This user-friendly guide provides valuable background information about adult learning styles, memory, and how the brain learns. Engaging, interactive strategies for classrooms or workshops include graphic organizers, music energizers, exercise activities, and self-assessments, and each strategy is accompanied by a wide range of real-life examples.

Educators will be able to motivate adult learners to

Become more self-directed in their own learning
Improve their ability to recall, comprehend, and apply complex information
Unleash their creative potential as they explore a variety of learning modalities
Turn their education into a meaningful and rewarding experience

Ideal for staff developers, trainers, principals, teacher leaders, coaches, mentors, adult education instructors, adult learners, and consultants, Jump Start the Adult Learner provides everything staff developers need to successfully implement this dynamic and learner-centered approach in any adult learning environment.

Key features

This user-friendly guidebook includes:

Exercises
Inventories
Activities
Reproducibles
Examples pulled from a wide range of adult learning situations

Author(s)

Laurie Materna

Laurie Materna is a professor of nursing at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Materna’s interest in brain research includes the relationship between nutrition and learning, the use of graphic organizers to promote learning, and the development of learning styles and multiple intelligences in adult learners. She has integrated brain-compatible learning methodologies into nursing theory and clinical courses, and has coached many educators individually and through group inservices on developing brain-compatible strategies for specific classes. Materna has appeared before college and professional groups throughout the United States, and presented at the Brain Expo in San Diego in 2005. She earned a doctoral degree in education through Capella University.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Part 1: Brain 101

1. How the Brain Learns

2. Promotion of Learning

Part 2: The Resourceful Learning State

3. Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligence

4. Resourceful Learning State

Part 3: Active Learning Strategies

5. Key Metacognitive Learning Strategies

6. Blending Taxonomies to Bring the Learning Process Full Cycle

References

Index

Reviews

"This outstanding book combines neuroscience, education, and nursing to create an energetic and practical guide to the adult brain. You'll finish it feeling as if you've just been entertained and enlightened."

Sheryl Feinstein, Associate Professor
Augustana College

"Makes brain-based learning understandable and practical for the instructor who already feels overwhelmed with a multitude of daily classroom activities and 'too much to teach.' The author has generated a system to help faculty sift through what's effective and what's not."

Kristie L. Kroening, Nursing Instructor
Milwaukee Area Technical College

"An excellent guide for anyone who teaches adults."

California Bookwatch, October 2007

"Overall this text is a very interesting read with significant applicability to both advisors and faculty. The creative advisor will have no problem synthesizing Materna's ideas and theories of brain-compatible learning strategies into daily interactions with students and faculty." —Jennifer Varney, Hesser College

Jennifer Varney
Hesser College

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