Teaching with the Brain in Mind, Revised 2nd Edition

In easy to understand, engaging language, Jensen provides a basic orientation to the brain and its various systems and explains how they affect learning. After discussing what parents and educators can do to get children's brains in good shape for school, Jensen goes on to explore topics such as motivation, critical thinking skills, environmental factors, the "social brain," emotions, and memory and recall. He offers fascinating insights on a number of specific issue, including
* How to tap into the brain's natural reward system.
* The critical link between movement and cognition.
* The impact on learning of environmental factors such as lighting, temperature, and noise.
* The value of feedback.
* The importance of prior knowledge and mental models.
* Why stress impedes learning.
* How social interaction affects the brain.
* How to help students improve their ability to encode, maintain, and retrieve learning.

The repeated message to educators is simple: You have far more influence on students' brains than you realize. And you have an obligation to learn as much as you can to take advantage of the incredible revelations that science is providing. The revised and updated Teaching with the Brain in Mind, 2nd edition helps you do just that.

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Warning: Bigoted, stereotypical view of a minority., 2008-12-01
Jensen has a negative and insulting stereotype in mind when he states on page 100, "The negative effects of social isolation suggests troubling implications for ...home schooling." Families who homeschool do not do it in isolation. We network with others, set play times with other children (both public and home schooled friends), participate in group activities from co-ops to clubs of all sorts (chess, Spanish, debating, chorus, specific sports, and dozens more). Children learn social skills in part from their parents who model mature social skills instead of mainly from peers who have immature social skills not worthy of emulation.

Again on page 123-124, the author states that "Children in quality early-childhood programs have better social and emotional intelligence than ...children who stay at home with a parent." You've got to be kidding! One of the very best preschool experience is in a small co-operative setting with one to three other dedicated mothers who take turns providing an enriched preschool for their children.

A home preschool experience (whether leading up to public schooling or homeschooling) provides individual attention in a very small social group. This is much more age-appropriate than being lost in a large group of strangers.

Jensen needs to do some "error correction" and revise his inaccurate prior knowledge of home education and parenting in general.




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Excellent resource, 2008-09-21
This is a truly excellent book! We've had horrid teaching for way too long. I think this books makes a great case as to why horrid teaching needs to stop. We need education to be meaningful and worth it for kids!


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Mind Boggling (pun intended!), 2008-06-30
This book is incredibly informative and of course (pardon the pun) very mind boggling! As a teacher still relatively new to the profession as well as the various teaching ideologies/philosophies, this book has truly shaped my perceptions on teaching and understanding the 21st century learner. And most importantly, I am able to understand my students from a purely biological point of view and this in itself informs and guides every aspect of my teaching. Even though I did not read the first edition, this book has proven to be a magnificent teaching tool that every teacher, new or seasoned in the profession, should read. There is an undeniable evolution taking place in education and this knowledge of our brains and how they function is the key and gateway to understanding how to teach beyond the factory model and reach the most vital aspect of what makes us human....our minds.


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Teaching With the Brain in Mind, 2008-02-27
Really good insights into how the brain works. I learned some new concepts that are helpful to teachers. I did this in a book chat and it was well worth it.


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Teaching with the brain in mind, 2008-02-08
This book is a very quick read with lots of information for those teachers who want to change their teaching style to "brain-based" teaching! Very easy reading-good suggestions to use in the classroom!

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