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Summary: Excellent - not too technical and highly practical!!!
Review: An overview of the brain is given, but in managable terminology. Each chapter provides practical information for educators to immediately put into practice in their classrooms. Applicable for early childhood teachers to university professors.
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Summary: Readable, practical and the most valuable educator book yet
Review: As a light, interesting read, this book has its moments. But as a source of direction for curriculum changes, it is nothing short of dangerous. The scholarship of the book is highly dubious: most of its dramatic claims have extraordinarily weak source references: pop culture magazine articles, tabloid journalism, and even a racquetball club brochure. Many wild claims have no citation at all. In the meantime, the author ignores much of what REAL brain research implies about teaching. For example, great strides have been made in understanding neural networks, and from that we learn that the natural basis for how the brain works is through repetition and practice -- an insight that is just about exactly contrary to the author's touchie-feelie approach. In general, the author is highly selective in material included: brain research that supports classical education is ignored, while even the most outrageous claims in support of progressivist dogma are treated as gospel.
If you truly wish to practice lifelong learning and critical thinking, read other perspectives on the rush towards "brain based learning." A good start would be to go to the website for the "Illinois Loop" and reading the page there about "brain based learning."
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Summary: Deeply flawed and dangerous
Review: As a light, interesting read, this book has its moments. But as a source of direction for curriculum changes, it is nothing short of dangerous. The scholarship of the book is highly dubious: most of its dramatic claims have extraordinarily weak source references: pop culture magazine articles, tabloid journalism, and even a racquetball club brochure. Many wild claims have no citation at all. In the meantime, the author ignores much of what REAL brain research implies about teaching. For example, great strides have been made in understanding neural networks, and from that we learn that the natural basis for how the brain works is through repetition and practice -- an insight that is just about exactly contrary to the author's touchie-feelie approach. In general, the author is highly selective in material included: brain research that supports classical education is ignored, while even the most outrageous claims in support of progressivist dogma are treated as gospel.
If you truly wish to practice lifelong learning and critical thinking, read other perspectives on the rush towards "brain based learning." A good start would be to go to the website for the "Illinois Loop" and reading the page there about "brain based learning."
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Summary: A Must for All Educators
Review: As I started reading material on how to apply the latest brain research to improve instruction, many of the books were difficult to "wade" through. This book was a refreshing surprise! Eric Jensen has taken all the main points of the how to use this research and compiled an user friendly book. It is an easy read and filled with many suggestion that are easily applied in the classroom. I would highly recommend this book (and I do at all the workshops I conduct) to educators at all levels.
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Summary: Not Just for Teachers!
Review: Every parent, as well as every educator, must read this book so that children get the best opportunities for learning for life. I wish I'd read it before my children started school. It has changed the way in which I will insist the be educated. Technical, but so readable, this book explains how learning is inextricably linked to motion and emotion. It also lays out how and why eduction systems must change.
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Summary: A great resource for anyone who has contact with children.
Review: I graduated with a degree in elementary education back in the mid-70's and had courses on "how to teach". This book brings us up-to-date on learning theories. It points out what new discoveries have been made in the past 20 years and how these should influence how we teach - whether formally, in the classroom, or informally, at home.This book is very readable. I borrowed it from a teacher-friend and managed to finish most of it in just one sitting. It provides some terrific ideas for parents (or parents-to-be, like me!) on how to positively influence the development of a child's brain. Since the book is intended as a teacher resource and is used as a textbook, it provides practical application of its concepts in the classroom or at home.
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Summary: A must read for teachers everywhere!
Review: Jensen covers most of the recent discoveries in brain research and makes practical suggestions to educators on what to do with this information. Includes comprehensive reference list.
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Summary: An elementary teacher's review of this incredible book
Review: Teaching With The Brain In Mind helped prepare my students for the Stanford Nine. By implementing many of the ideas/suggestions written in the book, I found that my students were better prepared to learn. This book has a wealth of information for teachers and parents. This book has helped me become a better teacher and eventually a better parent.
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Summary: An elementary teacher's review of this incredible book
Review: Teaching With The Brain In Mind helped prepare my students for the Stanford Nine. By implementing many of the ideas/suggestions written in the book, I found that my students were better prepared to learn. This book has a wealth of information for teachers and parents. This book has helped me become a better teacher and eventually a better parent.
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Summary: Great for teachers, grandparents, and parents; motivational
Review: Teaching with the brain in mind is a great book for teachers who feel that they don't have time for "fun" or activities that involve moving around in their classroom. As more is added to the curriculum, fun things are often taken out. That is where we are missing out on teaching and connecting with kids! Teachers and parents are called on to be more and more creative as they teach new things in a new way. Making a connection with motor skills, rhythms and singing can teach kids in a way that helps them reinforce the basics. They are provided with a knowledge bank that they can call on when they have forgotten a math fact for instance. Jensen says that the words "stick like glue" to notes so when you teach code words to unlock word problems in subtraction, a teacher can teach a song such as "This Old Man" except substitute words about subtraction. Jensen also had some astounding facts about how the brain develops in young children and the connections with motor activities. Great Book. Good opportunity to use it for test-taking strategies, which I did.
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