Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain

✍ Scribed by Renate Nummela Caine, Geoffrey Caine

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 115
• Edition: Revised
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book by two neuropsychology experts examines how the brain functions during learning experiences and how this knowledge can influence teaching strategies. Grades 1-12

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 1
Copyright page & Contents......Page 2
Acknowledgments & Foreword......Page 3
Introduction: time for a change......Page 4
I. Assessing the brain's potential......Page 5
1. Making connections......Page 6
2. Questioning fundamental assumptions about education......Page 11
II. Facts and theories about the human brain......Page 17
3. Brain basics......Page 18
4. The forgotten memory system......Page 25
5. The triune brain......Page 33
6. Threat and brain......Page 40
7. Principles of brain-based learning......Page 49
III. Brain-based schooling......Page 55
8. Exploring the mystery of meaning......Page 56
9. Orchestrated immersion......Page 0
10. Relaxed alertness......Page 74
11. Active processing......Page 84
12. Brain-based learning in action......Page 92
Conclusion......Page 99
Bibliography......Page 106
Index......Page 112