Saturday, July 30, 2011

Brain Power

Eric Jensen suggests that IQ is not static. It can be changed! This is really very important when looking at children in impoverished and traumatic situations. Place-based learning is a highly effective way to help these students make the connections they are missing in the rest of their lives. I highly recommend reading his books: Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It and Teaching with the Brain in Mind. If you are a principle, the staff training sessions are very powerful!
Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids' Brains and What Schools Can Do about It  Teaching with the Brain in Mind, Revised 2nd Edition Brain-Based Learning: The New Paradigm of Teaching
 

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