Authors of Books from A-D
Armstrong, Tricia
The Whole-Brain Solution
Tricia Armstrong$19.00
The Whole Brain Solution explores the primary thinking tools that are essential for students to become effective learners. Based on the needs of students in grades 6-12, the books features chapters on: observing, generating ideas, asking questions, connecting, making analogies, recognizing patterns, solving problems, and transforming information and synthesizing data. (160 pages)
Bourne, Barbara
Taking Inquiry Outdoors: Reading, Writing and Science Beyond the Classroom Walls
Edited by Barbara Bourne$18.50
Follow a group of educators who have used the natural world as a setting for purposeful student learning and critical teacher reflection. For these teachers, the outdoors provides an authentic laboratory that promotes questions, investigations, reading, writing, listening, and sharing. They have discovered that involving students in meaningful scientific inquiry provides them with authentic and motivating reasons to read, research, and write. (139 pages)
Brady, Marion
What's Worth Teaching? Selecting, Organizing, and Integrating Knowledge
Marion Brady$ 9.95
Marion Brady provides a workable framework for analyzing deficits of traditional curriculum and for creating curriculum appropriate for the 21st century. According to Brady, "The proper subject matter of education is reality." It should be demonstrably applicable to daily experience, universal, and equally valid for every student, as well as being integrated and part of a coherent conceptual structure. This is a "must-read" book for teachers and administrators, grades 7-12. (147 pages)
Cohen, Isabel
Hands On: How to Use Brain Gym in the Classroom
Isabel Cohen and Marcell Goldsmith$39.95
This useful, photo-filled book gives the teacher or parent practical, visual, step-by-step ideas on how to use the Brain Gym movements when teaching reading, handwriting, spelling, or mathematical computation. The photos of children doing the Brain Gym activities are clear, easy to follow, instructive, and inspirational. An essential aid for everyone using Brain Gym. (106 pages)
Dennison, Paul E., Ph.D.
Brain Gym: Teacher's Edition
Paul E. Dennison, Ph.D. and Gail Dennison$ 19.95
Research clearly supports the ways in which movement enhances learning. Use the movement patterns detailed in this book to promote student achievement by helping them to use all of their learning power. Each movement is illustrated and explained in terms of its benefits. (45 pages)