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Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites

20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain

Third Edition
By: Marcia L. Tate

This updated third edition of Marcia Tate’s bestseller offers twenty brain-compatible techniques to maximize retention and minimize forgetting in learners of all ages.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781506302737
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2015
Page Count: 248
Publication date: November 06, 2015

Price: $39.95

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Bring Novelty Into The Classroom To Get Knowledge Into Students’ Brains!

You can invest time and effort into perfecting your lesson plans, encouraging good student behavior, and ensuring your classroom accommodates every learning style. But if your students don’t remember what you teach them, what’s the point?

Banish this concern forever when you use the strategies in this thoroughly updated third edition of Marcia Tate’s bestselling Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites, which details twenty definitive brain-compatible techniques to maximize retention and minimize forgetting in learners of all ages.

Tate’s techniques are drawn from the latest neuroscientific research and learning style theory and are described step-by-step for immediate application in your classroom. Learn how to:

Incorporate interactive fun to your existing lessons, including field trips, games, humor, and even music and rap
Use graphic organizers and word webs to solidify lessons visually
Facilitate innovative methods of project-based learning

You’ll also benefit from new sample lesson plans, activities, and illustrations that reflect the latest research on how students’ brains develop and function. With this book, your students will retain the information from your classroom for years to come.

Key features

Updated 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 style

Author(s)

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

Strategy 2: Drawing and Artwork

Strategy 3: Field Trips

Strategy 4: Games

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

Strategy 6: Humor

Strategy 7: Manipulatives, Experiments, Labs, and Models

Strategy 8: Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes

Strategy 9: Mnemonic Devices

Strategy 10: Movement

Strategy 11: Music, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rap

Strategy 12: Project-Based and Problem-Based Learning

Strategy 13: Reciprocal Teaching and Cooperative Learning

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

Strategy 15: Storytelling

Strategy 16: Technology

Strategy 17: Visualization and Guided Imagery

Strategy 18: Visuals

Strategy 19: Work Study and Apprenticeships

Strategy 20: Writing and Journals

Resource A: Brain-Compatible Lesson Plan

Resource B: Graphic Organizers

Bibliography

Index

Other Titles in: Teaching Methods & Learning Styles | Brain-Friendly Teaching & Learning

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