12 brain/mind learning principles in action :

12 brain/mind learning principles in action : the fieldbook for making connections, teaching, and the human brain / Twelve brain/mind learning principles in action Renate Nummela Caine ... [et al.] ; foreword by Arthur L. Costa. - Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2005. - xvi, 263 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-255) and index.

Getting started -- Introduction to relaxed alertness -- The development of competence and confidence accompanied by meaning or purpose -- How the social environment contributes to relaxed alertness -- How meaning contributes to a state of relaxed alertness -- Emotions and patterning -- Introduction to immersion in complex experience -- Seeing the parts and experiencing wholeness -- Engaging the physiology in learning -- Engage the learner's capacity to recognize and master essential patterns-- Engaging and assessing developmental steps and shifts in learning -- Introduction to active processing : the art of digesting experience and consolidating learning -- How to capitalize on different aspects of memory -- Powerful learning requires the integration of attention and context -- Including the conscious and unconscious in learning -- Teaching to unique students.

1412909848 (pbk.) 141290983X (cloth)

2004014961

LB1060 / .A16 2005

370.1523