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Empower students with proven strategies for brain-friendly instruction!

In the fourth edition of Super Teaching, brain expert Eric Jensen examines how students learn and how instruction changes a student’s brain. This powerful guide offers more than 1,000 brain research?based teaching strategies and ready-to-implement instructional tools for engaging students, boosting learner memory, and meeting the needs of all learners.

In this completely revised edition, readers will find helpful features such as previews at the beginning of each chapter, reflective questions, affirmations, sidebars, bulleted lists, and quotable quotes. The author shows teachers how to improve instructional effectiveness, plan standards-based lessons, and optimize student learning with practical techniques such as:

Matching instruction with learners’ developmental stages
Responding to unique learning styles with differentiated techniques
Using assessment as part of instruction
Addressing the learning needs of students in poverty
Managing students’ emotions with music and energizers
Practicing positive teaching mind-sets to enhance student results
Use this practical resource to combine best practices with brain-friendly instruction and create a thriving learning environment that advances students’ academic achievement.

Grades:

K-12

Author(s):

Eric Jensen

Publisher:

Corwin

Year:

2009

Pages:

216 pp

Media/Binding:

Softcover

iSBN:

9781412963329