Book Club - Chapter 5 The Brain on WBT
To start at the beginning of this book club with me: Buy the book Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids Read about Chapters 1 & 2 here Read about Chapters 3 & 4 here Join the Official Book Study here Chapter 5 This chapter is all about the brain research behind Whole Brain Teaching. One of my classes in grad school was all about the brain research behind teaching and learning. Also, my extensive training with Project GLAD has taught me the brain research behind language acquisition. I know that students need to activate their prior knowledge in order to make sense of new information. If they do not have something already in their brain to anchor it to, it will be harder to learn the concept. I also know that through cooperative learning, students are better able to create new memories because they are using more parts of their brain than by just participating in an activity by themselves. In chapter 5 of Whole Brain Teac...