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Recommended Reading
Begin With the Brain: Orchestrating the Learner-Centered Classroom
by Martha Kaufeldt
Zephyr Press, 1999
ISBN; 1-56976-098-5Martha Kaufeldt has been a teacher on all grade levels, was gifted education coordinator, and was a lead teacher at Monarch Community School. She is has been for the last fifteen years an independent educational consultant and keynote speaker, and has been studying brain research for the last twenty years.
She notes that her book "is designed to be like the teacher down the hall from whom you can get a lot of ideas for orchestrating and maintaining a harmonious classroom that is a joyous and yet rigorous place to be, a place where students understand the standards and procedures, and are considered a part of the team. A classroom where every system and strategy have been thought through with how the brain works in mind."
Teachers will also find support for many of the effective practices that they have intuitively developed or discovered without the benefit of understanding more about how the brain takes in and processes information. Topics addressed include how to create secure and safe environments that are conducive to learning, organize systems, build positive social interactions, engage learners' interest in learning, build democratic classrooms, develop goal-setting and self-assessment, and provide positive feedback and celebrate successes.
The book is filled with creative ideas and practical strategies that seem to be well supported by current research on the brain-mind system.
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