Brain-Based Teaching for All Subjects: Patterns to Promote Learning

by Madlon T. Laster

Overview

Brain-Based Teaching for All Subjects describes cognitive instruction that builds on brain reactions in everyday life and explains how teachers lead students to see commonalities in examples of a particular concept. The common traits lead to a visual pattern or model of the concept, with language labels attached. Teachers can refer to the pattern in future classroom work as the topic is studied.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781578867219
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/14/2007
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Madlon T. Laster is retired after forty-two-years teaching in Winchester City Schools, Winchester, Virginia, Ohio, Tennessee, Tehran, Iran and Beirut, Lebanon.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: How Did Brain Research Get Us Here?
Chapter 2 Brain Processes for Learning and Memory and How You Can Help
Chapter 3 The Value of a Complete Description: ABLGUF
Chapter 4 The Infinitely Flexible Event Frame
Chapter 5 The Culture Box that Went to College
Chapter 6 What Does a Paragraph Look Like? Like an Outline?
Chapter 7 They Already Exist! Maps and Time Lines
Chapter 8 Ye Gods! It's Grammar You Can See: The Parts of Speech
Chapter 9 Putting It All Together: Those Clauses and Pauses
Chapter 10 What about Math and Science? This One's Short and Sweet
Chapter 11 Epilogue: You'll Adapt in Your Own Way

Editorial Reviews

The writing is so engaging that the reader finds it difficult to abandon a chapter before reading the last sentence....The book forces it reader to examine ways that educators teach and, introspectively, also to explore instructional methods that the reader himself/herself would employ to teach a specific subject matter....In sum, [the book] is an interesting, entertaining, and useful resource. The book will certainly prompt readers to consider current and potential teaching methodologies.

Metapsychology Online

Dr. Laster's work emphasizes global and specific understanding as students consider the pieces that make up the whole or provide evidence for the overarching concept...an important part of teacher education programs and professional development programs at a variety of levels.

Katherine P. Simpson

...[A] book of this nature is overdue because brain research on learning and memory has been going on and accumulating for some time, but very few teachers have applied its important findings in their teaching strategies. The reason lies in the fact that no one has really designed a basic approach for teaching those initial concepts. What Madlon T. Laster has done is to translate these important theoretical concepts into practical terms that can be easily understood by teachers, and can be applied creatively in their classrooms without anxiety or difficulty.

Julinda Abu Nasr

The writing is so engaging that the reader finds it difficult to abandon a chapter before reading the last sentence....The book forces it reader to examine ways that educators teach and, introspectively, also to explore instructional methods that the reader himself/herself would employ to teach a specific subject matter....In sum, [the book] is an interesting, entertaining, and useful resource. The book will certainly prompt readers to consider current and potential teaching methodologies.

September 2008 Metapsychology Online

The writing is so engaging that the reader finds it difficult to abandon a chapter before reading the last sentence....The book forces it reader to examine ways that educators teach and, introspectively, also to explore instructional methods that the reader himself/herself would employ to teach a specific subject matter....In sum, [the book] is an interesting, entertaining, and useful resource. The book will certainly prompt readers to consider current and potential teaching methodologies.

September 2008 Metapsychology Online Reviews