The Brain-Based Classroom: Accessing Every Child's Potential Through Educational Neuroscience
The Brain-Based Classroom translates findings from educational neuroscience into a new paradigm of practices suitable for any teacher. The human brain is a site of spectacular capacity for joy, motivation, and personal satisfaction, but how can educators harness its potential to help children reach truly fulfilling goals? Using this innovative collection of brain-centric strategies, teachers can transform their classrooms into deep learning spaces that support their students through self-regulation and mindset shifts. These fresh insights will help teachers resolve classroom management issues, prevent crises and disruptive behaviors, and center social-emotional learning and restorative practices.

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The Brain-Based Classroom: Accessing Every Child's Potential Through Educational Neuroscience
The Brain-Based Classroom translates findings from educational neuroscience into a new paradigm of practices suitable for any teacher. The human brain is a site of spectacular capacity for joy, motivation, and personal satisfaction, but how can educators harness its potential to help children reach truly fulfilling goals? Using this innovative collection of brain-centric strategies, teachers can transform their classrooms into deep learning spaces that support their students through self-regulation and mindset shifts. These fresh insights will help teachers resolve classroom management issues, prevent crises and disruptive behaviors, and center social-emotional learning and restorative practices.

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The Brain-Based Classroom: Accessing Every Child's Potential Through Educational Neuroscience

The Brain-Based Classroom: Accessing Every Child's Potential Through Educational Neuroscience

by Kieran O'Mahony
The Brain-Based Classroom: Accessing Every Child's Potential Through Educational Neuroscience

The Brain-Based Classroom: Accessing Every Child's Potential Through Educational Neuroscience

by Kieran O'Mahony

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The Brain-Based Classroom translates findings from educational neuroscience into a new paradigm of practices suitable for any teacher. The human brain is a site of spectacular capacity for joy, motivation, and personal satisfaction, but how can educators harness its potential to help children reach truly fulfilling goals? Using this innovative collection of brain-centric strategies, teachers can transform their classrooms into deep learning spaces that support their students through self-regulation and mindset shifts. These fresh insights will help teachers resolve classroom management issues, prevent crises and disruptive behaviors, and center social-emotional learning and restorative practices.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780367610111
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/30/2020
Pages: 248
Sales rank: 418,937
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kieran O’Mahony is Founding Principal of the Institute for Connecting Neuroscience with Teaching and Learning, USA, and Founder and Chairman of the Board of Neural Education.

Table of Contents

List of Figures xi

Acknowledgments xiii

Preface xiv

About the Author xv

Introduction 1

Part I Breaking Paradigms 7

1 Neuroscience of Learning 9

2 Rewards Work … Sometimes 19

3 Teach With A Instead of E 28

4 Punishments Work … Sometimes 37

5 Brain Breaks Work Every Time 48

6 Cognitive Models Work Every Time 56

7 Orchids Are Epigenetic 65

Part II Rethinking Pedagogy 73

8 Miller's (Adjusted) Law 75

9 Hebb's Rule and Cognitive Rehearsal 83

10 Plasticity Is a Two-Sided Neural Coin 91

11 Purposeful Long-Term Potentiation 99

12 Know Your Reticular Activating System 108

13 Mindset Matters 116

14 Comfort Zone for Adaptive Expertise 125

Part III Conceptual Collisions 137

15 Intrinsic Motivation in a Gift Box 139

16 Greenhouse Teachers too 148

17 Autonomy Loves Choice 156

18 A Lost Revolution 166

19 Maslow in an Orchid World 173

20 What Skinner Did Next 181

21 Teach to Thorndike Affect 191

Epilogue 199

Glossary 201

References 220

Index 228

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