What Every Teacher Should Know About Learning, Memory, and the Brain.

The teacher's holistic guide fosters understanding of how the brain acquires, processes, and interprets information, leading to reflective learning opportunities for all students.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tileston, Donna E. Walker
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications, 2003
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Vocabulary Pre-Test
  • Chapter 1
  • Learning with the Mind, Heart, and Body
  • Incoming Information
  • Processing Information
  • The Cognitive System
  • Chapter 2
  • How Do We Acquire and Process Information?
  • Visual Learners
  • Auditory Learners
  • Kinesthetic Learners
  • The Perceptual Register
  • Short-Term Memory
  • Working Memory
  • Information Processing
  • Chapter 3
  • Working Memory
  • Meaning
  • Making Sense of the Learning
  • Chapter 4
  • Long-Term Memory Pathways
  • Memory PathwaysThe Semantic Memory System
  • Retrieving from Semantic Memory
  • The Episodic Memory System
  • Retrieving from Episodic Memory
  • The Procedural Memory System
  • Retrieving from Procedural Memory
  • Chapter 5
  • Teaching for Declarative and Procedural Knowledge
  • Declarative Knowledge
  • Constructing Meaning
  • Storing Declarative Information
  • Procedural Knowledge
  • Constructing Mental Models
  • Shaping
  • Automaticity
  • Using Declarative and rocedural Objectives in Lessons
  • Chapter 6
  • Building a Model to Facilitate Learning
  • Vocabulary SummaryVocabulary Post-Test
  • References
  • Index