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

Donna E. Walker Tileston - Strategic Teaching and Learning, Dallas, TX
What Every Teacher Should Know About Learning, Memory, and the Brain
October 2003 | 104 pages | Corwin
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The holistic guide to understanding how the brain acquires, processes, and interprets information.

This concise look at how the brain learns, remembers, and creates meaning will allow every teacher to prepare more effective lesson plans and to create reflective learning opportunities for students. Topics include:

  • The cognitive system: mind, heart, and body
  • How visual learners, auditory learners, and kinesthetic learners acquire and process information
  • Working memory and short-term memory
  • Long-term memory pathways for semantic, episodic, and procedural memory
  • Teaching for declarative and procedural knowledge
  • Constructing meaning
  • Constructing mental modes
  • Automaticity
  • Building a model to facilitate learning
  • Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
  • Bibliography and Index

 

Contents

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

Introduction

Vocabulary Pre-Test

  • 1. Learning With the Mind, Heart, and Body
  • 2. How do We Acquire and Process Information?
  • 3. Working Memory
  • 4. Long-Term Memory Pathways
  • 5. Teaching for Declarative and Procedural Knowledge
  • 6. Building a Model to Facilitate Learning

Glossary

Glossary

Vocabulary Post-Test

Vocabulary Post-Test

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

Description

The holistic guide to understanding how the brain acquires, processes, and interprets information.

This concise look at how the brain learns, remembers, and creates meaning will allow every teacher to prepare more effective lesson plans and to create reflective learning opportunities for students. Topics include:

  • The cognitive system: mind, heart, and body
  • How visual learners, auditory learners, and kinesthetic learners acquire and process information
  • Working memory and short-term memory
  • Long-term memory pathways for semantic, episodic, and procedural memory
  • Teaching for declarative and procedural knowledge
  • Constructing meaning
  • Constructing mental modes
  • Automaticity
  • Building a model to facilitate learning
  • Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
  • Bibliography and Index

 

Contents

About the Author

About the Author

Introduction

Introduction

Vocabulary Pre-Test

  • 1. Learning With the Mind, Heart, and Body
  • 2. How do We Acquire and Process Information?
  • 3. Working Memory
  • 4. Long-Term Memory Pathways
  • 5. Teaching for Declarative and Procedural Knowledge
  • 6. Building a Model to Facilitate Learning

Glossary

Glossary

Vocabulary Post-Test

Vocabulary Post-Test

Bibliography

Bibliography

Index

Index

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


October 2003 | 104 pages | Corwin

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Paperback 01/02/2026 9780761931195 $37.95
Lifetime 01/02/2026 9781483360225 $35.00

The holistic guide to understanding how the brain acquires, processes, and interprets information.

This concise look at how the brain learns, remembers, and creates meaning will allow every teacher to prepare more effective lesson plans and to create reflective learning opportunities for students. Topics include:

  • The cognitive system: mind, heart, and body
  • How visual learners, auditory learners, and kinesthetic learners acquire and process information
  • Working memory and short-term memory
  • Long-term memory pathways for semantic, episodic, and procedural memory
  • Teaching for declarative and procedural knowledge
  • Constructing meaning
  • Constructing mental modes
  • Automaticity
  • Building a model to facilitate learning
  • Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
  • Bibliography and Index

 


Table Of Contents:

  • About the Author
  • Introduction
  • Vocabulary Pre-Test
  • 1. Learning With the Mind, Heart, and Body
  • 2. How do We Acquire and Process Information?
  • 3. Working Memory
  • 4. Long-Term Memory Pathways
  • 5. Teaching for Declarative and Procedural Knowledge
  • 6. Building a Model to Facilitate Learning
  • Glossary
  • Vocabulary Post-Test
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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