Teaching Strategies is designed to elevate attentiveness and comprehension in the classroom. Every second, an astounding one million neural connections are made through parental nurturing and the sensory world. However, children are bombarded by the digital and media-driven culture that affects their concentration in school. Neuroscientists report that television and online stimuli impact the development of executive functions, influencing the dopamine and oxytocin chemistry in the brain's memory and emotion sectors.
Teaching Strategies examines a spectrum of validating activities that enhance student academic focus in the Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and iPhone era. Furthermore, America needs to improve, as thirty-four percent of the 2.1 million students that took the ACT in 2016 did not meet college-readiness benchmarks in all four disciplines: English, Reading, Math, and Science!
In a career encompassing urban and private venues, Brian Pack explains how arousing the brain's reward circuitry incentifies students, bolsters classroom attentiveness, amplifies recall, and fosters inquiry and analysis. He couples personal anecdotes and institutional studies to outline methods such as teacher modeling, student-led discussions, collaborations, projects, and a host of cognitive-enhancing practices that can be incorporated in every classroom.
