Using Brainpower in the Classroom

Abstract

This book offers a realistic, practical and accessible model to allow teachers to incorporate the best of recent brain-based research into their teaching. Its five steps involve: making learning multi-sensory, ensuring activities match the dominant intelligences of the learners, matching types of learning to the gender of the pupils, using the lesson structure to fit the natural attention span of the brain, and managing the classroom environment to make it brain-friendly and active in supporting learning. Illustrated throughout with classroom examples from a wide range of subject areas, the book is highly practical in focus and the ideas it contains can easily be adapted to work with all age ranges and types of school. Steve Garnett is Senior Manager at a UK comprehensive school, he is also an experienced training provider delivering training in the Primary, Secondary and Independent sectors across Nottinghamshire, to teachers representing over 300 schools.