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Another Unique Teacher Resource from Martha's Begin with the Brain Store!
Help students understand about their own learning styles and encourage them to use the frog as a tool to keep them on task.
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What's New
| Begin with the Brain - Book - 2nd edition |
| The newly revised and updated version of Martha's popular book: Begin with the Brain: Orchestrating the Learner-Centered Classroom is being published by Corwin Press in November 2009! This new edition contains an overview of recent discoveries in cognitive neuroscience and the implications for educators. Filled with tons of practical strategies, this new book still retains the personable and friendly style of the original version. The book will be showcased at the NSDC conference Dec, 5-9 in St. Louis. Order it now at the online store to get a copy hot off the press! |
http://beginwiththebrain.com/new_catalog/product_info.php?cPath=2&products_id=6
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| Learning and the Brain Conference Feb. 18-20 |
Martha will be presenting at the Learning & the Brain Conference in San Francisco - Feb. 18-20. This conference is co-sponsored by Harvard, Stanford, John Hopkins, the DANA Initiative and others... The emphasis will be "Smarter Brains: Using Brain Research to Increase Student IQ and Achievement." http://www.edupr.com/index.html
Martha's afternoon session on Feb. 19th is:
No Child Kept Behind: Discovering & Nurturing the Gifts Within Every Child
While federal mandates such as NCLB and the bulk of educational funding are directed at struggling students with inadequate test scores, our brightest and most creative students are lacking challenging, engaging, and appropriate classroom experiences. Many gifted and talented students may not be formally identified for specialized services (if available!), but they deserve our attention and nurturing. In this session, a veteran classroom teacher will share a variety of creative ways educators can discover the often hidden gifts and talents of many under-identified student populations. Using engaging curriculum and differentiated instructional strategies, that span a variety of levels, every student can be challenged! Even “twice-exceptional” students can have their talents nurtured while their learning disabilities are accommodated. Discover how to create a “brain-compatible” learning environment that reduces stress and maximizes learning. During this interactive, fast-paced session you will learn strategies to:
· DISCOVER: Informally identify students’ Multiple Intelligences (Gardner), five possible areas of “Over-Excitabilities” (Dabrowsky), and Wisdom, Intelligence & Creativity strengths (Sternberg).
· DESIGN: Orchestrate authentic, meaningful, first-hand learning experiences that will get students’ brains’ attention and demand engagement and thinking.
· DIFFERENTIATE: Create upper-tier learning tasks that expand and extend the basic curriculum with depth and complexity.
· DEVELOP: Provide on-going “Anchor Activities” to stimulate thinking and extend learning when students say, “I’m done. Now what?”
To recognize whether talent exists there must be opportunities for talent to emerge. Marcia Gentry, Purdue University, Gifted Child Quarterly Fall 2009
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http://www.edupr.com/index.html
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| Recommended Resource Lists |
| Here are two Bibliography - Recommended Resource Lists for your information. At the recent Learning and the Brain Conference in San Francisco, these pages were missing in the Resource Book. |
Martha's Recommended Resources - download
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| See Martha in action! VIDEO CLIP |
| Managing the Differentiated Classroom -Enjoy a few minutes of a presentation Martha did at a Brain Expo last year. "Teachers, Change Your Bait! Brain Compatible Differentiated Instruction" is one of her most requested topics. In this short video clip you can see Martha demonstrate how orchestrating Differentiated Instruction in classrooms can be like running a three ring circus! Good management systems are the key to success. Click on the link to view the video |
http://beginwiththebrain.com/video_class_management.php
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