Different Brains, Different Learners: How to Reach the Hard to Reach

by Eric Jensen

Book Overview

Give hard-to-reach students the tools for lifelong success and watch test scores improve

Updated throughout and packed with powerful strategies to help students improve brain function, this second edition presents a concise outline for identifying the symptoms and causes of prevalent impairments such as oppositional disorder, learned helplessness, attention deficit disorder, dyslexia, dyscalculia, depression, auditory processing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412965020
• ISBN13: 9781412965026
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Corwin Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 5 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 12

Customer Reviews

A survey updated to reflect new tools and strategies based on further research into brain function a

The second edition of Eric Jensen's DIFFERENT BRAINS, DIFFERENT LEARNERS packs in a survey updated to reflect new tools and strategies based on further research into brain function and learning. The color guide provides an outline for identifying prevalent impairments and teaches how to handle each. Libraries will find this a top pick.

Different Brains, Different Learners

A great book for teachers as well as parents. It helps to understand what is or may be happening in the brain. I like the recommendations given on ways we can help alleviate stressful events under given conditions.

Essential reading for all teachers

Eric Jensen knows the needs of busy teachers and has the gift in helping them to utilize up-to-date knowledge in brain studies. Here it is applied to identifying 10 types of different learners: 1. impulsive ones with ADD, 2. resigned with learned helplessness, 3. challenged reader with dyslexia, 4. argumentative with oppositional disorder, 5. frustrated with learning delayed, 6. hyperactive, 7. with auditory-processing deficits, 8. out of control, 9. the demotivated with chronic threat and distress, and 10. depressed and troubled. You are given a pre-test and a post-test of 10 unique students to see if you can identify the patterns of symptoms rather than isolated behaviors. There are many color-prints of corresponding brain-images and graphic charts that facilitate learning. Brief summaries of treatment methods, supplementary resources on books, websites and organizations are given on each type. All teachers should acquire such general background knowledge so that the unqiue needs and gifts of students can be respected.