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Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning: Insights from a Neurologist and Classroom Teacher
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 370.1523
EAN: 9781416603702
ISBN: 1416603700
Label: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
Manufacturer: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 125
Publication Date: August 30, 2006
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
Studio: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
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Editorial Review:
Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning is the first book for educators written by an author who is both a neurologist and a classroom teacher. Dr. Willis used her neurology expertise to examine the past two decades of learning-centered brain research. Using her background and experience as a clinical neurologist and neuroscience researcher, she sifted through the abundance of neuroimaging and brain mapping information. She assessed what information was both valid and relevant to education. She then employed her training and experience as a classroom teacher to provide strategies for implementing the best of this research in the classroom. She brings this knowledge to life in a comprehensive and accessible style.
Teachers will be introduced to strategies that will work in their own classrooms. These strategies will help teachers improve student memory, learning, and test-taking success. Teachers will also learn how to captivate and hold studentsÂ’ attention.
Dr. Willis takes a reader-friendly approach to neuroscience, describing instructional strategies that are adaptable for grades K through 12. Through statistical data, individual student stories, and her own experiences using these strategies with elementary and middle school students, Dr. Willis provides teachers with a wealth of information they will want to start using in their classrooms before finishing the book.
The book includes learning strategies that have come from research about how stress and emotion affect learning. Willis describes assessment techniques that not only assess authentically and with diversity, but also teach while assessing. This book will become one that teachers will return to again and again to pick up new strategies to make their own.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Treasure-packed remarkable resource
Reading a book on pedagogy written by a neurologist sounds like as much fun as reading a standardized test manual, but Dr Judy Willis's Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning truly surprised me. Willis has written an excellent book for helping teachers understand how to teach in ways that engage students' brains and lead to deeper learning. The short text is easy to understand, yet filled with valuable information for teachers.
Teachers must constantly make decisions ... Read More
Rating: - BUY THIS BOOK!
This book is amazing! It clarifies how the brain works when a person learns, and it shares many ways in which learning can be enhanced. I wrote all over in mine, and I'm ordering another copy for my principal. Now, I need a syn-nap. THANK YOU, Dr. Willis!
Rating: - You knew that it was true, but this book explains why
I am so excited to finally be able to see what is going on inside my teenage student's brains.
As teachers, we are aware that presentation is a key element of what we do to engage our students. How did we get that usually reluctant student to answer a question; what made the class get so excited about our lesson today. Dr. Willis presents some very practical yet eye-opening details on how to engage students before you have even begun your lesson.
As often as I am reminded ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Resource
Well written. Excellent resource, and I look forward to more books from this author.
Rating: - Invaluable supplement to enhancing one's grade school curriculum for maximum effectiveness.
Board-certified neurologist and middle school teacher Judy Willis, M.D. presents Research-Based Strategies to Ignite Student Learning, a guide for K-12 educators that combines the latest findings of learning-centered brain research with practical experience in the classroom. The result is a resource for helping students achieve their full academic potential that covers memory, learning, and test-taking success; strategies to corner student attention; how to mitigate the negative effects and draw benefits ... Read More
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