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Updated Edition of Bestseller

Engaging the Brain

20 Unforgettable Strategies for Growing Dendrites and Accelerating Learning
Fourth Edition
By: Marcia L. Tate

Create unforgettable learning experiences for your students

What can you do when students would rather socialize than pay attention to your lesson? When students appear to lack motivation, how do teachers ensure that learning sticks? How can you best respond to learning loss caused by the pandemic?

In this new edition of Marcia Tate’s wildly bestselling Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites, 20 field-tested, brain-compatible instructional strategies designed to maximize memory are supported by new classroom applications and research. In each chapter devoted to an individual strategy, you'll discover:

  • The latest research on how the brain benefits when the strategy is used
  • How the strategy engages all students and addresses common behavior problems
  • Sample classroom activities for various grade levels that teachers can implement immediately
  • Action plans for incorporating each strategy to accelerate learning

When students actively engage in learning, they stand a much better chance of retaining what we want them to know. As students face setbacks and learning gaps, it's imperative that we quickly bridge these divides by teaching them in the way their brains learn best.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781071939789
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2024
  • Page Count: 272
  • Publication date: September 09, 2024
Price: $35.95
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Create unforgettable learning experiences for your students

What can you do when students would rather socialize than pay attention to your lesson? When students appear to lack motivation, how do teachers ensure that learning sticks? How can you best respond to learning loss caused by the pandemic?

In this new edition of Marcia Tate’s wildly bestselling Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites, 20 field-tested, brain-compatible instructional strategies designed to maximize memory are supported by new classroom applications and research. In each chapter devoted to an individual strategy, you'll discover:

  • The latest research on how the brain benefits when the strategy is used
  • How the strategy engages all students and addresses common behavior problems
  • Sample classroom activities for various grade levels that teachers can implement immediately
  • Action plans for incorporating each strategy to accelerate learning

When students actively engage in learning, they stand a much better chance of retaining what we want them to know. As students face setbacks and learning gaps, it's imperative that we quickly bridge these divides by teaching them in the way their brains learn best.


Key features

  • Updated research throughout
  • Extremely practical and user-friendly
  • Full of classroom examples in all content areas and all grade levels that teachers can implement immediately
  • Based on research and theory while maintaining a completely accessible, teacher-friendly, and humorous style

Author(s)

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Marcia L. Tate

Marcia L. Tate, EdD, is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System in Decatur, Georgia. During her thirty-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director.

Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 500,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the eight books in the best-selling Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites series and four additional books: Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They’re Learning?, 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning K–8, and 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning 9–12, and her latest book, Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms that is designed to address both the personal and professional lives of all educators. Participants in her workshops refer to them as some of the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the twenty strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.

Marcia received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her master’s degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia State University, and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University.

Marcia is married to Tyrone Tate and is the proud mother of three children: Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher, and nine grandchildren: Christian, Aidan, Maxwell, Aaron, Roman, Shiloh, Aya, Noah, and Alyssa.

Marcia and her husband own the company Developing Minds, Inc. and can be contacted by calling the company at (770) 918-5039, emailing her at marciata@ bellsouth.net, or by visiting her website at www.developingmindsinc.com. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @DrMarciaTate.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Strategy 1: Brainstorming and Discussion

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 2: Drawing and Artwork

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 3: Field Trips

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 4: Games

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 5: Graphic Organizers, Semantic Maps, and Word Webs

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 6: Humor

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 7: Manipulatives, Experiments, Labs, and Models

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 8: Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 9: Mnemonic Devices

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 10: Movement

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 11: Music, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rap

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 12: Project-Based and Problem-Based Learning

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 13: Reciprocal Teaching and Cooperative Learning

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 14: Role Plays, Drama, Pantomimes, and Charades

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 15: Storytelling

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 16: Technology

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 17: Visualization and Guided Imagery

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 18: Visuals

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 19: Work Study and Apprenticeships

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Strategy 20: Writing and Journals

What: Defining the Strategy

Why: Theoretical Framework

How: Instructional Activities

Action Plan

Resource A: Brain-Compatible Lesson Plan

Resource B: Graphic Organizers

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