Facilitator's Guide to How the Brain Learns, 3rd Edition

Guide your staff to a clear understanding of cognitive research and its practical applications for the classroom!

This essential training guide to the new third edition of David Sousa's How the Brain Lerans, Third Edition provides staff developers and turnkey teachers with the tools necessary to facilitate a workshop or study group based on the bestselling book. Chapter-by-chapter topics focus on brain research that relates to teaching and learning and how this research can be translated into practical classroom strategies, and explore in depth

1. Basic brain facts
2. Information processing
3. Memory, retention, and learning
4. Transfer of knowledge
5. Hemispheric preferences and teaching to the whole brain
6. Creativity
7. Higher-order thinking skills

Key activities from the book include engaging in action research, determining sensory preferences, developing mnemonics, using metaphors to enhance knowledge transfer, making a concept map, putting the arts into lessons, differentiating complexity and difficulty, and putting lesson components together.

Highlights for the facilitator include

1. Chapter summaries
2. Supplemental information
3. Discussion questions
4. Timed activities
5. Journal writing exercises
6. Sample workshop agendas
7. Sample workshop evaluation form

The Facilitator’s Guide to How the Brain Learns, Third Edition, helps you effectively lead others through dialogue, reflection, and application of Sousa’s work in a number of different settings. Now you can help guide your faculty and colleagues to a better understanding and application of the most current cognitive research available for educators!
 

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About The Author:
David A. Sousa is an international educational consultant. He has made presentations at national conventions of educational organizations and has conducted workshops on brain research and science education in hundreds of school districts and at several colleges and universities across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. His teaching experience covers all levels. He has taught junior and senior high school science, served as a K–12 director of science, and was supervisor of instruction for the West Orange, New Jersey, schools. He then became superintendent of the New Providence, New Jersey, public schools. Sousa has been an adjunct professor of education at Seton Hall University and a visiting lecturer at Rutgers University. He was president of the National Staff Development Council in 1992.

Sousa has edited science books and published numerous books and articles in leading educational journals on staff development, science education, and brain research. He has received awards from professional associations and school districts for his commitment and contributions to research, staff development, and science education. He received the Distinguished Alumni Award and an honorary doctorate in education from Bridgewater (Mass.) State College. He has appeared on NBC Today and National Public Radio to discuss his work with schools using brain research. Sousa has a bachelor of science degree in chemistry from Massachusetts State College at Bridgewater, a master of arts in teaching with a major in science from Harvard University, and a doctorate from Rutgers University.