Green Light Classrooms: Teaching Techniques That Accelerate Learning / Edition 1

by Rich Allen

Overview

Brain-based strategies to give your students the green light for learning success!

How can teachers develop lessons that will ignite the desire to learn? This teacher-friendly guide is organized into nine proven strategies for creating new memory pathways, making content relevant for students, and increasing their learning. Teachers will learn techniques for tapping into students' emotions and be able to increase participation in group discussions and activities. The book offers contributions from real classrooms and includes:

• Sample lesson plans for different grade levels in each chapter
• A variety of practical, brain-compatible teaching strategies
• Building blocks for effective instruction, illustrated through descriptions, analogies, and metaphors

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412956093
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/19/2008
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Learn more about Rich Allen's PD offerings

Richard Allen is an international consultant with more than 25 years experience coaching trainers and educators. Cofounder and president of Education Illustrated, he has taken the Train Smart strategies beyond the United States and Canada to such diverse countries as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brunei, Russia, Jordan, and Brazil. Allen is also a popular keynote speaker at international conferences, and he facilitates moti­vational and teambuilding workshops.

Allen started his educational career as a high school math and drama teacher. In 1985, he became a lead facilitator for Super Camp—an accelerated learning program for teens—and has since worked with more than 25,000 students worldwide. He completed his doctorate in educational psychology at Arizona State University, where he studied how the human brain receives, processes, and recalls information—knowledge that informs all aspects of his training strategies.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
1. Overview
2. Memory
3. Connections
4. Movement
5. Novelty
6. Tone
7. Emotions
8. Socialization
9. Drama
10. Visuals
Final Note
Appendix
References
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides a variety of new approaches, strategies, techniques, concepts, and ideas that teachers can implement in their classroom to increase the educational success of their students. "

Beth Wile

"This is a practical and highly engaging book about how to be a highly engaging teacher. In today’s world of on-demand entertainment and fast-paced action, the strategies in this book help teachers offer what students need in order to learn. "

Renee Peoples

My daughter applied the techniques for learning found in Rich Allen’s Green Light Classrooms in a second grade class and was amazed how using mystery in science excited her students. I saw the same excitement in adults learning safety concepts; the class was energized! Even after returning from a break, the class was still discussing what they learned and I knew I’d found a powerful method for teaching. I’ll continue to use this valuable resource for my own classes and my daughter will as well!

Dave Barber