What Brain Research Says about Student Learning

What Brain Research Says about Student Learning focuses on how students learn, and how their brains develop. From this foundation, it then focuses on how parents and teachers can support that learning through lesson planning, activities, assignments, and assessments.

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Parents want to work with their children’s 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 child’s 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 child’s 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.