Making Connections: Teaching and the Human Brain

by Geoffrey Caine and Renate Nummela Caine

This book by two neuropsychology experts examines how the brain functions during learning experiences and how this knowledge can influence teaching strategies. Grades 1-12 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201490889
• ISBN13: 9780201490886
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Dale Seymour Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 4 and higher

Customer Reviews

social learning

There is more packed in this little book about how we, humans, learn than in hundreds of education manuals. Should be required reading for teachers and students.

This is a great book!

This is one of the most important books on education that I have ever read. It has permanently changed how i think about education and is influencing where I send my kids to school.

This book has changed the way I teach!

This book is the basis for my graduate study work. I've applied the brain-based learning principles in my classrooms and enjoyed stunning results. Teaching is easier & more effective. Students are enthusiastic and inspired to learn more. Grades and attitudes improve with BBL techniques.

Essential for building a "brain based" classroom.

This book was extremely helpful in explaining how the brain absorbs and processes information. If you are interested in brain research, and how it impacts teaching your students, this book is a MUST! It explains how much information the human brain can process, and the various stages of learning.

A must for every modern day educator!

Every teacher owes it to their students to read this book and make it part of their repetoire. The authors have gathered meaningful information and put it in language that every educator can understand. The challenge is to change our anti-brain methods in schools and to re-invent education NOW! The information fits educational work with every age. If nothing else is learned, the "DOWNSHIFTING" that the brain does when in the presence of threat should cause us to re-examine our motivational methods used with young and adolescent students.