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Project Learning

... Real-World Issues Motivate Students PBL Research Summary: Studies Validate Project-Based Learning New ... 21st century skills + assessing projects + brain research MORE VIDEO: ...

4/1/2008

From Brain-Based Research to Powerful Learning: Innovative Teaching Techniques in the Classroom

... textbook route. They can use encyclopedias and other research material at the library. They can check out a video. Or, they can do ... to conclusions outlined in the book, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School . First published in 1999 and written by a ...

Article - - 4/10/2008

Grant Information

... directories of foundation and corporate grantmakers, research advice, custom research, and database searching. The Web site includes ... brother and I started a foundation to teach kids about the brain. We are trying to raise money to pay for our foundation to print posters ...

4/21/2008

Social and Emotional Learning

... The Missing Piece Emotional Intelligence Research Ten Tips for Creating a Caring School: Raise Your ... + dropouts + cooperative learning + brain research + multiple intelligences ...

4/1/2008

Key Largo School: Using Technology to Understand How the Brain Learns

deck:  Technology use based on brain research gives students an edge at Key Largo School. More to this story. ...

Media - 4/7/2008

Inside the Teenage Brain: Understanding How Adolescents Think

... of himself as a translator, someone who can use current brain research to help teachers teach. His new book, Engaging 'Tweens and ...

Article - - 4/7/2008

Overcoming Autism: Public Schools Deal with a Growing Problem

... are creating innovative programs based on the latest research in autism and modeled after some of the most highly regarded -- and ... therapy, which purports to change the way the brain processes sensory input. Many public schools use a combination of ... balcony falls, hit by a car, run over on their bike, brain tumours, meningitis, various illnesses and rare diseases, you name ...

Article - - 5/6/2008

Should public schools require uniforms?

... do gain respect and do enjoy the "hallow effect"--if the research is saying they have hallows--well maybe they do. Each day I have ... ever prevent that unless we can totally rewire the human brain. No improvement there. Gangerism: We have gangsters and wannabes ...

3/24/2008

Smart Talking: Tell Students to Feed Their Brains

... We don't weigh the elephant." I reported on recent research by Stanford University professor Carol Dweck and her colleagues, Lisa ... strategies: Teach students to think of their brain as a muscle that strengthens with use, and have them visualize the brain ...

Article - - 4/7/2008

Childhood's End: Growing Up Too Fast

... Jean Piaget explained the stages of intellectual/brain development. At the pre-operational stage, ages 2-7, young children ... of 'Hurried Child' and 'burning out kids' with dittos. Research on music is also detrimental to education. Most students I would guess ...

Article - - 4/23/2008