Best of Corwin: Educational Neuroscience

To assist in the challenges faced by all school leaders, Corwin Press has published thousands of books for teachers and school leaders, including many seminal works that brought together important academic research, creative new ideas, and concrete, practical strategies to help improve the professional lives of educators. Now, Corwin launches its "Best of Corwino Series" to showcase key chapters from a variety of critically-acclaimed Corwin publications to give readers a useful overview of multiple perspectives on important education issues and topics - like Equity, Technology, Differentiated Instruction, and others. This "Best of Corwin" volume includes some of the most important chapters from Corwin's books on educational neuroscience and brain-compatible teaching. The selected chapters are devoted to understanding what research findings have implications for what we do in schools and classrooms. The chapters for this volume are arranged in three sections. Part I focuses on the developing brain and includes chapters on brain structures, on movement, and on the mysteries of the adolescent brain. Part II looks at the brain in school and includes chapters on how the brain learns to read and calculate, on differences between the male and female brain, and on understanding some of the social and academic needs of students with learning difficulties. Part III contains valuable and tested instructional strategies for all students. It includes chapters on reducing stress in the classroom, and on how to keep the students' brain engaged, focused, and energized.