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Martha’s Newest Books:
Best Practices at Tier 1 – Secondary
with Gayle Gregory and Mike Mattos
Published by Solution Tree, 2016 Solution Tree’s Price: $34.95 — ON SALE HERE: $27.95
Improve core instruction to ensure learning for all. Created specifically for grades 6–12, this book provides proven response to intervention strategies to differentiate instruction, engage students, increase success, and avoid additional interventions. Discover how to identify essential power standards to include in Tier 1 instruction, create a brain-friendly learning environment, shift instructional processes to support collaboration, and more.
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Best Practices at Tier 1 – Elementary
with Gayle Gregory and Mike Mattos
Published by Solution Tree, 2015 Solution Tree’s Price: $34.95 — ON SALE HERE: $27.95
Improve core instruction to ensure learning for all. Created specifically for K–5 educators, this book provides proven response to intervention strategies to differentiate instruction, engage students, increase success, and avoid additional interventions. Discover how to identify essential power standards to include in Tier 1 instruction, create a brain-friendly learning environment, shift instructional processes to support collaboration, and more.
Benefits
- Understand the power of RTI to enhance core instruction and provide timely, targeted, and systematic interventions for students in need.
- Gain effective strategies to differentiate learning, and understand the variety of ways students learn.
- Incorporate the four Cs-communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking-into curriculum design.
- Shift from teacher-centered to student-centered instruction to enhance learning.
- Use formative assessment and preassessment to plan for instruction and extend learning tasks when necessary.
- Raise the bar for all learners by enhancing rigor and providing learners opportunities to grow.
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The Motivated Brain
with Gayle Gregory
Published by ASCD, 2015. ASCD’s Price: $ 24.95 — ON SALE HERE: $19.95
What really motivates students to learn? What gets them interested—and keeps them interested—in pursuing knowledge and understanding? Recent neuroscientific findings have uncovered the source of our motivation to learn, or as neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp terms it, the drive to seek. Seeking is what gets us out of bed in the morning, the engine that powers our actions, and the need that manifests as curiosity.
Informed by new findings on the nature of the brain’s seeking system, internationally renowned educators Gayle Gregory and Martha Kaufeldt have identified key brain-friendly strategies for improving student motivation, knowledge acquisition, retention, and academic success.
In this book, readers will learn:
- The science behind the motivated brain and how it relates to student learning.
- Strategies for preparing a motivational environment and lesson.
- Strategies for creating engaging learning experiences that capitalize on the brain’s natural ways of learning.
- Strategies for improving depth of knowledge, complex thinking, and synthesis to get students into the ever-desired state of flow
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Think BIG, Start Small: How to Differentiate in a Brain-Friendly Classroom
Published by Solution Tree, 2012, Solution Tree’s Price: $22.46 — ON SALE HERE: $23.95
You no longer have to be a neuroscientist to understand how your students absorb knowledge. This easy-to-comprehend guide pares down the vast field of neuroscience and covers the brain basics that affect your classroom the most: attention, memory, emotions, and stress. With a variety of simple brain-compatible strategies, you’ll see a measurable difference in your differentiated classrooms.
- Review neuroscience research on learning, attention, memory, emotions, and stress.
- Learn how to create a safe and secure brain-friendly environment that maximizes student learning.
- Gain low-prep and high-yield strategies for assessing student knowledge, interests, and preferences.
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Begin with the Brain
2nd Edition, Published by Corwin Press, 2010, Corwin’s Price: $39.95 — ON SALE HERE: $31.95
In this thoroughly updated bestseller, seasoned educator Martha Kaufeldt helps teachers understand and apply current findings in neuroscience research to all aspects of their classroom practice, from behavior management to curriculum design.
Using what we know about how the brain learns optimally, this resource provides practical guidance on how to create a learner-centered classroom, including:
- Setting up a classroom
- Establishing routines and procedures
- Fostering students’ intellectual curiosity
- Reducing learned helplessness in students
- Developing students’ respect for one another’s cultural and educational backgrounds
- Building a classroom community
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Teachers, Change Your Bait!
Published by Crown House Publishing, 2005, Crown House Price (UK): £16.99 — ON SALE HERE: $21.50
Teachers, Change Your Bait! provides busy over-burdened teachers with an easy-to-use reference for how to meet the instructional needs of all students. A clear description of brain compatible learning theory and its implications for educators provides the rationale for why this will work and why teachers should apply these strategies right away! Using a fishing metaphor which will guarantee a broad appeal, this book offers teachers a variety of strategies to pack into their personal “tackle boxes”! Short, to the point and filled with practical strategies this book includes: Classroom examples from all grade levels providing suggestions for how teachers can orchestrate powerful learning experiences in response to every student’s unique needs. Techniques for teachers to learn to vary five components of differentiation: content, process, products, pacing, and the environment. Examples showing how to set up student profiles and establish groups and how to collect on-going feedback and document progress. Activities that engage reluctant learners; Strategies that will help for children with special needs; Complex tasks to inspire the more able and talented students
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Brain-Compatible Classroom Tools:
Singing Bowls
These beautiful hand-hammered metal bowls imported from Nepal, make the perfect sound to get students’ attention in a classroom. Use the wool-wrapped end of the wooden baton to strike the outside of the bowl to create a mellow “gong” sound. Rub the wooden end of the mallet around the outside edge of the bowl to make it “sing” with a peaceful relaxing tone. Comes with a beautiful brocade cushion, striker and instruction card.
COLOR: GOLD
SMALL Bowls are 4.5 – 4.9 inches in diameter and are $49.50
Sound created by this smaller-sized bowl is best suited to smaller rooms.
MEDIUM Bowls are 5.0 – 5.2 inches in diameter and are $54.00
Sound created by the medium-sized bowl is perfectly suited to a classroom setting.
LARGE Bowls are 5.3 – 5.9 inches in diameter and are $63.00
Larger bowl creates a louder, deeper, more intense sound.
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Fidget Frogs:
Perfect for the kinesthetic learner trying to stay quiet and still in a classroom! Let the student hold, stretch, squeeze, and bend this durable soft-vinyl frog. Help students understand about their own learning styles and encourage them to use the frog as a tool to keep them on task. These frogs come individually wrapped in an assortment of five different colors. Get them for the whole class or just for those who could really benefit from a positive way to keep themselves moving during lessons and work time. Comes with an Idea Card and common sense procedures for student use.
Each frog is 1½ inches long. Available in two quantities:
- Large Bags of 48. Classroom size! 4 dozen for just $17.00
- Smaller package of 12. 1 dozen for just $4.50
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Bendy Buddies:
Many students can stay more focused if they can keep some part of their bodies moving. These simple bendable figures provide hours of relief for kinesthetic learners. Keep some on hand for students who need a little help staying on task and quiet while working during study times. Great for counseling, therapy, and small-group meetings. Each Bendy Buddy is 4 inches long. Bags of 5. Comes with an Idea Card and common sense procedures for student use.
5 per bag for $4.50
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