The Brain-Based Classroom: Accessing Every Child’s Potential Through Educational Neuroscience

ISBN-13: 9780367610111 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str.

Kieran O'Mahony

Opis

The Brain-Based Classroom translates findings from educational neuroscience into a new paradigm of practices suitable for any teacher.

Spis treści

Section One: Breaking Paradigms 1. Neuroscience of Learning 2. Rewards work...Sometimes 3. Teach with "A" instead of "E" 4. Punishments work...Sometimes 5. Brain Breaks Work Every Time 6. Cognitive Models Work Every Time 7. Orchids are Epigenetic Section Two: Rethinking Pedagogy 8. Miller’s (adjusted) Law 9. Hebb’s Rule and Cognitive Rehearsal 10. Plasticity is a Two-sided Neural Coin 11. Purposeful Long-term Potentiation 12. Know your Reticular Activating System 13. Mindset Matters 14. Comfort Zone for Adaptive Expertise Section Three: Conceptual Collisions 15. Intrinsic Motivation in a Gift Box 16. Greenhouse Teachers Too 17. Autonomy loves Choice 18. A Lost Revolution 19. Maslow in an Orchid World 20. What Skinner did Next 21. Teach to Thorndike Affect Epilogue Glossary

O autorze

Kieran O’Mahony is Founding Principal of the Institute for Connecting Neuroscience with Teaching and Learning, USA, and Founder and Chairman of the Board of Neural Education.