What Every Teacher Should Know Learning, Memory, and the Brain

The teacher’s holistic guide fosters understanding of how the brain acquires, processes, and interprets information, leading to reflective learning opportunities for all students.

The holistic guide to understanding how the brain acquires, processes, and interprets information.

This concise look at how the brain learns, remembers, and creates meaning will allow every teacher to prepare more effective lesson plans and to create reflective learning opportunities for students and to Topics include:

• The cognitive system: mind, heart, and body
• How visual learners, auditory learners, and kinesthetic learners acquire and process information
• Working memory and short-term memory
• Long-term memory pathways for semantic, episodic, and procedural memory
• Teaching for declarative and procedural knowledge
• Constructing meaning
• Constructing mental modes
• Automaticity
• Building a model to facilitate learning
• Vocabulary pre-test, post-test, and summary
• Bibliography and Index

Donna Walker Tileston has served education as a leader in teaching, administration, research, writing, software development, and national consulting for the past thirty years. She has been responsible for curriculum development, management, technology, finance, grants management, public relations, and drug abuse prevention programs. For the past twenty-five years, she has been actively involved in brain research, including research on factors that inhibit learning or increase the brain's ability to put information into long-term memory. Tileston's ten-book collection What Every Teacher Should Know (Corwin Press 2003) received the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing by the Association of Educational Publishers. Other Corwin press titles include What Every Parent Should Know About Schools, Standards, and High-Stakes Tests (2005), Ten Best Teaching Practices: How Brain Research, Learning Styles and Standards Define Teaching Competencies (2005), and Strategies for Teaching Differently (1998). Tileston has presented extensively at local, state, national, and international conferences, notably at The Hague in November 2005 and in Prague during March 2006.