What Brain Research Says about Student Learning

Parents want to work with their childrens teachers to help them succeed in school. What Brain Research Says about Student Learning provides parents and teachers the most recent findings in brain research and learning theory in a very approachable way. The reader will see how the childs brain develops, learns, remembers, and creates new meaning and understanding. User-friendly discussions of learning and teaching theories will show strategies both parents and teachers can use to capitalize on this new understanding about the childs developing brain. Topics include: learning environment, developmental stages, lesson planning, teaching strategies, assignments, and assessments. The book concludes with a variety of actual samples from these topic areas.