Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites
20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain
- Marcia L. Tate - Developing Minds, Inc.
Bring Novelty Into The Classroom To Get Knowledge Into Students’ Brains!
You can invest time and effort into perfecting your lesson plans, encouraging good student behavior, and ensuring your classroom accommodates every learning style. But if your students don’t remember what you teach them, what’s the point?
Banish this concern forever when you use the strategies in this thoroughly updated third edition of Marcia Tate’s bestselling Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites, which details twenty definitive brain-compatible techniques to maximize retention and minimize forgetting in learners of all ages.
Tate’s techniques are drawn from the latest neuroscientific research and learning style theory and are described step-by-step for immediate application in your classroom. Learn how to:
- Incorporate interactive fun to your existing lessons, including field trips, games, humor, and even music and rap
- Use graphic organizers and word webs to solidify lessons visually
- Facilitate innovative methods of project-based learning
You’ll also benefit from new sample lesson plans, activities, and illustrations that reflect the latest research on how students’ brains develop and function. With this book, your students will retain the information from your classroom for years to come.
This is an excellent resource book. It has wonderful strategies and I wish I could use it in my class as a required text; however, we are required to keep the student "costs" as low as possible. therefore, I utilize it as a supplemental and am happy to say MOST of my students do buy it at my suggestion. It is unfortunately just not one of my required texts at this point. But it is superb!