 | Brain Structure and Its Origins: In Development and in Evolu
Title: Brain Structure and Its Origins: Function, Evolution, Development
Author: Gerald E Schneider
This introduction to the structure of the central nervous system demonstrates that the best way to learn how the brain is put together is to understand something about why. It explains why the brain is put together as it is by describing basic functions and key aspects of its evolution and development. This approach makes the structure of the brain and spinal cord more comprehensible as well as more interesting and memorable. The book offers a detailed outline of the neuroanatomy of vertebrates, especially mammals, that equips students for further explorations of the field.
Gaining familiarity with neuroanatomy requires multiple exposures to the material with many incremental additions and reviews. Thus the early chapters of this book tell the story of the brain's origins in a first run-through of the entire system; this is followed by other such surveys in succeeding chapters, each from a different angle. The book proceeds from basic aspects of nerve cells and their physiology to the evolutionary beginnings of the nervous system to differentiation and development, motor and sensory systems, and the structure and function of the main parts of the brain. Along the way, it makes enlightening connections to evolutionary history and individual development. Brain Structure and Its Origins can be used for advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate classes in neuroscience, biology, psychology, and related fields, or as a reference for researchers and others who want to know more about the brain.
ISBN: 9780262026734
Number Of Pages: 728
Published: 2nd May 2014
Hardcover
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 | Executive Function in Education: From Theory to Practice 2ed
by Lynn Meltzer
This groundbreaking volume, now revised and updated, has given thousands of educators and clinicians a deeper understanding of executive function (EF) processes in typically developing children and those with learning difficulties and developmental disabilities. The book elucidates how PreK–12 students develop such key capacities as goal setting, organization, cognitive flexibility, working memory, and self-monitoring. Leading experts in education, neuroscience, and psychology explore the links between EF and academic performance and present practical applications for assessment and instruction. Exemplary practices for supporting students with EF difficulties in particular content areas--reading, writing, and math--are reviewed.
New to This Edition
*Expanded coverage of reading--chapters on recent fMRI research findings; working memory and reading; and self-regulation and reading comprehension.
*Chapter on early childhood.
*Chapter on embedding EF strategies in the curriculum
*Updated throughout with a decade's worth of significant advances in research, theory, and educational best practices.
Regular price: 71.00
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| 9781462534531 |
 | Helping Students Overcome Social Anxiety
Title: Helping Students Overcome Social Anxiety: Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS)
Authors: Carrie Masia Warner, Daniela Colognori and Chelsea Lynch
Social anxiety disorder causes significant distress and academic impairment for many adolescents. This unique book gives front-line school professionals innovative, easy-to-use tools for identifying and intervening with socially anxious students in grades 6–12. It presents Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS), a school-based intervention with demonstrated effectiveness. Case examples and sample scripts demonstrate how to implement psychoeducation, cognitive strategies, social skills training, exposure, and relapse prevention with groups and individual students. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes 22 reproducible handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
CONTENTS
I. Recognizing and Addressing Social Anxiety at School
1. What Is Social Anxiety?
2. Why Treat Social Anxiety at School?
3. Identifying Students Struggling with Social Anxiety
II. Promoting Skills for Academic and Social Success (SASS)
4. Educating Teenagers about Social Anxiety
5. Socially Anxious Thinking 101
6. Realistic Thinking
7. Go Ahead, Start the Conversation
8. Maintaining Conversations and Extending Invitations
9. The Secret to Meaningful Conversations: Listening to What Others Say
10. Your Needs Matter: Learn to Speak Up!
11. Facing Your Fears: Creating a Fear Ladder
12. Climbing the Ladder: Exposure Practice in School
III. Supplementary Strategies
13. Getting Parents Involved: How Can They Help?
14. School Social Events and Peer Facilitators
15. Classroom Strategies for Teachers
IV. Other Practical and Clinical Considerations
16. The Nuts and Bolts of Helping Anxious Students at School: Putting It All Together
17. Applying Intervention Skills to Other Anxiety Concerns
18. Keep It Up!: Ways to Maintain Student Progress
ISBN: 9781462534609
Published on: 6 May 2018
Number of Pages: 241
Edition Number: 1
Paperback
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| 9781462534609 |
 | Issues
Title: Issues: A Resource of Play Scripts and Activities for Teachers (2nd Edition)
Author: Hazel Edwards
Scripts allow hesitant students to be able to assume the protection of a character and play a role or explore issues which may concern them in real life.
Issues contains a collection of scripts, discussion prompts and activities for use in the classroom, as a way of opening up students to understand and process topical and sensitive issues in their world, from a range of perspectives. The art of performing harnesses the students’ engagement in the subject and offers a chance to immerse themselves within the protection of a character or role.
This book gives middle school and secondary school students a chance to discuss contemporary topics or problems during the classroom rehearsal and performance of these scripts. There are enough parts for the whole class to participate, and conversation prompts and activities are provided to extend and deepen classroom discussion.
Extensively workshopped and already used in classrooms nationally, this large collection of student performance scripts allows students and teachers to improve their ability to understand, navigate and discuss sensitive issues in the classroom.
About the Author
Educator-author Hazel Edwards has written books for children, teachers and adults. Her best-known publication is the children's picture book classic There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake (1980), now a series of picture books, classroom play scripts, a musical stage production and a short movie.
ISBN: 9781922607768
Number of Pages: 144
Published on: 23 August 2023
Amba Press
Regular price: 34.00
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 | Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education
Title: Neuroteach: Brain Science and the Future of Education
Author: Glenn Whitman and Ian Kelleher
Teachers are brain changers. Thus it would seem obvious that an understanding of the brain – the organ of learning – would be critical to a teacher’s readiness to work with students. Unfortunately, in traditional public, public-charter, private, parochial, and home schools across the country, most teachers lack an understanding of how the brain receives, filters, consolidates, and applies learning for both the short and long term. Neuroteach was therefore written to help solve the problem teachers and school leaders have in knowing how to bring the growing body of educational neuroscience research into the design of their schools, classrooms, and work with each individual student. It is our hope, that Neuroteach will help ensure that one day, every student –regardless of zip code or school type—will learn and develop with the guidance of a teacher who knows the research behind how his or her brain works and learns.
ISBN: 9781475825350
Number Of Pages: 240
Published: 14th August 2016
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| 9781475825350 |
 | Teaching With the Brain in Mind, 2nd Edition
Title: Teaching With the Brain in Mind, 2nd Edition
Author: Eric Jensen
This revised and updated edition of Teaching with the Brain in Mind features new research and practical strategies to improve student comprehension and achievement. Topics explored include motivation, critical thinking skills, environmental factors, emotions and memory. Insights are offered on a number of issues including: Starting every class with activities to put students into a receptive state; tempting students to focus more on learning tasks; using compelling questions, personal stories, controversies and celebrations in your teaching; how seating, room temperature, lighting and noise affect learning; and why stress impedes learning. Educators have so much influence on student?'s brains, they need to take advantage of all the revelations science is providing.
ISBN: 9781416600305
Number Of Pages: 187
Published: 30th June 2005
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