The Teacher and the Teenage Brain

ISBN-13: 9780367435790 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 150 str.

John Coleman

Opis

The Teacher and the Teenage Brain is essential reading for all teachers and students of education. This book offers a fascinating introduction to teenage brain development, and shows how this knowledge has changed the way we understand young people.

Spis treści

1. Ten Things Every Teacher Needs to Know About the Teenage Brain  2. A Brief Introduction to Teenage Development  3. From "My Baby’s Brain" to "My Teen Brain"  4. Learning and Memory  5. Risk and Reward  6. The Social Brain  7. Stress and Mental Health  8. Teenagers and Sleep  9. The Teenage Brain for Teachers: Planning a Workshop  10. The Teenage Brain for Students: A Lesson Plan  11. The Teenage Brain for Parents: Engaging Families in New Knowledge

O autorze

Dr John Coleman trained as a clinical psychologist and was formerly a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the Founder of a research centre studying adolescents and their families, and during his career he has also run a special school for troubled teenagers and worked as a policy advisor for government. In addition to running workshops for parents of teenagers, he has created two series for TV, and written books and developed videos on the adolescent years. John’s pioneering work has been widely recognised, and in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2001 he was awarded an OBE for services to young people.