Bibliograph

The teaching brain, an evolutionary trait at the heart of education, Vanessa Rodriguez with Michelle Fitzpatrick

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The teaching brain, an evolutionary trait at the heart of education, Vanessa Rodriguez with Michelle Fitzpatrick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The teaching brain

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

894789924

Responsibility statement

Vanessa Rodriguez with Michelle Fitzpatrick

Sub title

an evolutionary trait at the heart of education

Summary

What is at work in the mind of a five-year-old explaining the game of tag to a new friend? What is going on in the head of a thirty-five-year-old parent showing a first-grader how to button a coat? And what exactly is happening in the brain of a sixty-five-year-old professor discussing statistics with a room full of graduate students?While research about the nature and science of learning abounds, shockingly few insights into how and why humans teach have emerged<U+0151>until now. Countering the dated yet widely held presumption that teaching is simply the transfer of knowledge from one person to ano

Table Of Contents

Introduction; 1 the theories that have led us astray; 2 cookie-cutter solutions and other missteps of education reform; 3 understanding the learning brain; 4 why do we need teachers?; 5 teaching as a system of ski l ls; 6 becoming an expert teacher; 7 developing the teaching brain; 8 your teaching brain; 9 the teaching brain and next steps for education reform; appendix a; appendix b; appendix c; acknowledgments; notes; index; about the authors

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