We′re Born to Learn
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We′re Born to Learn

Using the Brain′s Natural Learning Process to Create Today′s Curriculum

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

We′re Born to Learn

Using the Brain′s Natural Learning Process to Create Today′s Curriculum

About this book

"Applying the natural human learning process described in the book transformed my students? ability to learn. No teacher, new or experienced, should enter any classroom without a copy of this book."
—Patricia Jamie Lee, Educational Consultant
Many Kites Press, St. Paul, MN

Teach students to take responsibility for their own success!

This updated edition of the bestselling book on the brain?s natural learning process brings new research results and applications in a power-packed teacher tool kit. Rita Smilkstein shows teachers how to create and deliver curricula that help students become the motivated, successful, and natural learners they were born to be. Updated features include:

  • Guidelines for using the six-step Natural Human Learning Process (NHLP) for lesson planning and test preparation
  • New information on how technology and Internet research affect student learning
  • Practical methods for giving all students the tools they need to achieve

The author translates her unique research on students? critical and creative thinking into classroom strategies and sample lesson plans that will help to create a successful learning environment. Building on the content that earned the author an Educator?s Award of the Year from the Delta Kappa Gamma International Society, We?re Born to Learn provides teachers with practical methods for giving all students the metacognitive, motivational, and technological tools they need to take responsibility for their own achievement.

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Information

Publisher
Corwin
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9781412979382
eBook ISBN
9781452295657

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Preface to the New Edition
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. About the Author
  9. DEDICATION
  10. Introduction
  11. PART I: RESEARCH IN THE CLASSROOM AND IN THE BRAIN LAB
  12. PART II: THEORY AND APPLICATION
  13. PART III: USING THE BRAIN’S NATURAL LEARNING PROCESS TO CREATE CURRICULA
  14. References
  15. General Bibliography
  16. Index