ABSTRACT

The Brain-Based Classroom translates findings from educational neuroscience into a new paradigm of practices suitable for any teacher. The human brain is a site of spectacular capacity for joy, motivation, and personal satisfaction, but how can educators harness its potential to help children reach truly fulfilling goals? Using this innovative collection of brain-centric strategies, teachers can transform their classrooms into deep learning spaces that support their students through self-regulation and mindset shifts. These fresh insights will help teachers resolve classroom management issues, prevent crises and disruptive behaviors, and center social-emotional learning and restorative practices.

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part I|66 pages

Breaking Paradigms

chapter 1|10 pages

Neuroscience of Learning

chapter 2|9 pages

Rewards Work … Sometimes

chapter 3|9 pages

Teach With A Instead of E

chapter 4|11 pages

Punishments Work … Sometimes

chapter 5|8 pages

Brain Breaks Work Every Time

chapter 6|9 pages

Cognitive Models Work Every Time

chapter 7|8 pages

Orchids Are Epigenetic

part II|63 pages

Rethinking Pedagogy

chapter 8|8 pages

Miller’s (Adjusted) Law

chapter 9|8 pages

Hebb’s Rule and Cognitive Rehearsal

chapter 10|8 pages

Plasticity Is a Two-Sided Neural Coin

chapter 11|9 pages

Purposeful Long-Term Potentiation

chapter 12|8 pages

Know Your Reticular Activating System

chapter 13|9 pages

Mindset Matters

chapter 14|11 pages

Comfort Zone for Adaptive Expertise

part III|64 pages

Conceptual Collisions

chapter 15|9 pages

Intrinsic Motivation in a Gift Box

chapter 16|8 pages

Greenhouse Teachers too

chapter 17|10 pages

Autonomy Loves Choice

chapter 18|7 pages

A Lost Revolution

chapter 19|8 pages

Maslow in an Orchid World

chapter 20|10 pages

What Skinner Did Next

chapter 21|8 pages

Teach to Thorndike Affect

chapter |2 pages

Epilogue