Secrets of the teenage brain: research-based strategies for reaching and teaching today's adolescents
Feinstein, Sheryl G.
Featuring the latest research on the adolescent brain, this second edition offers teachers fresh instructional strategies that work for engaging erratic, distracted, and often unpredictable teenagers. Lighthearted and informative, this hands-on resource helps educators understand the key issues affecting cognition and adolescent learners’ emotional, social, and physical well-being. Eachchapter is supported with a multitude of techniques that can be adapted to individual content areas and teachers will find new sections about: Technology and the brain Mirror neurons and at-risk behaviors like cutting, violence and aggression An Educator’s Book Club guide for sharing the challenges of teachingadolescents INDICE: Foreword by Eric Jensen / Acknowledgments / About the Author / Introduction / Glossary / Teen Brain: Under Construction / Teen Cognition and Learning / The Social Brain / Communication and the Unfinished Brain / Self-Concept Under Attack / The Risk-Taking Brain / Reaching and Teaching TodayÆs AdolescentsùTomorrow! / Conclusion: Secrets of the Teenage BrainùRevealed! / In Summary / Book Club Discussion Questions / References / Index
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-6267-4
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 232
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés