We're Born to Learn: Using the Brain's Natural Learning Process to Create Today's Curriculum - Couverture rigide

Smilkstein, Rita

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0761946411 ISBN 13 : 9780761946410

Editeur : Corwin Press Inc, 2003

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Dr. Smilkstein speaks nationally and internationally on brain-compatible education. She has taught in middle school through graduate school including 28 years at North Seattle Community College. Currently Professor Emerita North Seattle Community College and invited faculty in Educational Psychology at Western Washington University's Woodring College of Education, Everett Campus. Publications include articles and books on brain-based curriculum and pedagogy. Author of We're Born to Learn: Using the Brain's Natural Learning Process to Create Curriculum (Corwin Press, 2003), which won the Delta Kappa Gamma International Society's Educator's Award of the Year, 2004; the second edition will be published in 2011. She is a co-author of Igniting Student Potential Using the Natural Human Learning Process (Corwin Press, 2007). M.A. (English, Michigan State University), Ph.D. (Educational Psychology, University of Washington). She has received many teaching awards, including the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development's Excellence Award, 1991, 1995; the College Reading and Learning Association's highest honor, the Robert Griffin Award, 2005; Induction as a Fellow of the American Council of Developmental Education Associations, 2006, the highest honor in the field of Developmental Education.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Make it possible for all students to realize their potential as natural learners!Combining field/classroom and neuroscience research, Smilkstein provides principles for developing brain-compatible, natural-learning curricula for any subject at any grade level.This resource includes:Simple charts detailing the six-stage Natural Human Learning Process (NHLP) from foundational knowledge through higher-level thinking Practical methods for developing curricula and selecting pedagogical strategies that are most effective in helping students utilize their innate learning processes Guidelines and models for how this theory can be applied to the development of classroom-proven lesson plans and curricula

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corwin Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0761946411
• ISBN 13: 9780761946410
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 272