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Combining a lively voice with scientific research, Learning Deepens
explores the fascinating and useful world of student motivation.
Written for teachers-and everyone interested in teaching and
learning-Learning Deepens helps classrooms flourish by fostering
students' intrinsic motivation. Part I delves into Mindset.
Although seemingly well known, this theory is often oversimplified
and widely misunderstood. By exploring its step-by-step historical
development, we can use it more flexibly and effectively to help
learners 'charge!' when they might otherwise 'retreat.' Part II
enters the paradoxical world of Stereotype Threat. A surprising
cascade of counter-intuitive effects can cause students to struggle
in school-not because they don't care, but because they work too
hard. The right classroom strategies block this demotivational
pathway, and thereby foster student learning. By interleaving
psychology and neuroscience research with dozens of practical
classroom examples, Learning Deepens makes these two theories both
clear and immediately useful. Learning Deepens is the second book
in the series "A Teacher's Guide to the Learning Brain." The first
book, Learning Begins, studies the science of working memory and
attention.
Learning Begins, written by a teacher for teachers, translates
current brain research into practical classroom strategies. Because
students learn with their brains, it simply makes sense for
teachers to explore educational psychology and neuroscience. And
yet, information in these fields can be daunting and contradictory.
Worse still, few researchers can clearly explain the specific
classroom uses of their remarkable discoveries. Learning Begins
both explains this research and makes it useful for teachers and
administrators. Part I investigates the science of working memory:
a cognitive capacity essential to all school work. When teachers
recognize the many classroom perils that can overwhelm working
memory, they can use research-aligned strategies to protect it, and
thereby promote student learning. Part II reveals the complexities
of student attention. By understanding the three neural
sub-processes that create attention, teachers can structure their
classrooms and their lessons to help students focus on and
understand new material. Written in a lively and approachable
voice, based on years of classroom experience and a decade of
scientific study, Learning Begins makes educational psychology and
neuroscience clear and useful in schools and classrooms.
Learning Begins, written by a teacher for teachers, translates
current brain research into practical classroom strategies. Because
students learn with their brains, it simply makes sense for
teachers to explore educational psychology and neuroscience. And
yet, information in these fields can be daunting and contradictory.
Worse still, few researchers can clearly explain the specific
classroom uses of their remarkable discoveries. Learning Begins
both explains this research and makes it useful for teachers and
administrators. Part I investigates the science of working memory:
a cognitive capacity essential to all school work. When teachers
recognize the many classroom perils that can overwhelm working
memory, they can use research-aligned strategies to protect it, and
thereby promote student learning. Part II reveals the complexities
of student attention. By understanding the three neural
sub-processes that create attention, teachers can structure their
classrooms and their lessons to help students focus on and
understand new material. Written in a lively and approachable
voice, based on years of classroom experience and a decade of
scientific study, Learning Begins makes educational psychology and
neuroscience clear and useful in schools and classrooms.
Combining a lively voice with scientific research, Learning Deepens
explores the fascinating and useful world of student motivation.
Written for teachers-and everyone interested in teaching and
learning-Learning Deepens helps classrooms flourish by fostering
students' intrinsic motivation. Part I delves into Mindset.
Although seemingly well known, this theory is often oversimplified
and widely misunderstood. By exploring its step-by-step historical
development, we can use it more flexibly and effectively to help
learners 'charge!' when they might otherwise 'retreat.' Part II
enters the paradoxical world of Stereotype Threat. A surprising
cascade of counter-intuitive effects can cause students to struggle
in school-not because they don't care, but because they work too
hard. The right classroom strategies block this demotivational
pathway, and thereby foster student learning. By interleaving
psychology and neuroscience research with dozens of practical
classroom examples, Learning Deepens makes these two theories both
clear and immediately useful. Learning Deepens is the second book
in the series "A Teacher's Guide to the Learning Brain." The first
book, Learning Begins, studies the science of working memory and
attention.
In the last 20 years, the cognitive sciences have revealed fresh,
surprising, and useful insights into how and why our students
learn. Teachers can now draw on psychology and neuroscience
research to supplement, reconsider, even overturn our traditions
and training. To use this research most wisely, teachers must find
our way to an elusive Goldilocks Zone. Instead of resisting all
research-based guidance, we should be ready to take it to heart -
even when it challenges both our training and conventional wisdom.
Instead of accepting all research-based guidance, we should be
ready to reject it emphatically - especially the hyped-up edu-fads
that exaggerate and misinterpret psychology findings. How can we
get this Goldilocks balance "just right"? This book offers a
specific, practical quest map to discover just such a balance. By
critically examining the source, the research, and ourselves,
teachers can develop the skills necessary to be effective research
skeptics. Written by a teacher with 18 years in the classroom - and
13 years studying neuroscience and psychology - The Goldilocks Map
transforms brain research from a daunting monologue into an
approachable, exciting, and lively conversation.
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