Here Brian Pete and Robin Fogarty explain how the brain learns best and all the things teachers can do to facilitate the learning part of the teaching scene.
They present a unique organization of Renate and Geoffrey Caine's twelve brain principles. The twelve principles are arranged in four specific quadrants. Each quadrant speaks to a particular aspect of the high-achieving classroom and highlights how instructional decisions are governed by the twelve principles. The Table of Contents:
Part One: Climate for Learning
Challenge/Threat: Learning Principle
Emotions/Cognition: Learning Principle
Focused/Peripheral: Learning Principle
Part Two: Skills of Learning
Parts/Whole: Learning Principle
Spatial/Rote: Learning Principle
Parallel Processing: Learning Principle
Part Three: Interactions With Learning
Physiology: Learning Principle
Brain Uniqueness: Learning Principle
Social/Experience: Learning Principle
Part Four: Learning About Learning
Meaning: Learning Principle
Patterning: Learning Principle
Conscious/Unconscious: Learning Principle
