Classroom Activators: 64 Novel Ways to Energize Learners by Jerry Evanski, EdD, Foreword by Eric Jensen

141 Pages - Item #: 604-013	ISBN 1-890460-40-0
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This handy, pocket-sized guide shows you how to put a new twist on your teaching and training practices to stimulate and invigorate learners. Each of the three sections—Environmental, Instructor and Student—presents specific state-changing activities and the brain research behind them. Strategies are geared most towards secondary level, but are adaptable for any age group including primary and collegiate. You'll be amazed how simple changes in the way you present material or arrange the classroom can capture students’ interest and keep them focused. So, shake things up a bit and see results immediately! (Part Theory, Part Practical) - All grades

Music with the Brain in Mind by Eric Jensen

122 Pages - Item #: 604-002	ISBN 1-890460-06-0
Retail Price - $25.00 ea.	Our Price - $23.49 ea.

• Discover how music supports learning
• Get specific links to solid research and more than 200 practical suggestions
• Learn how to boost achievement, motivation, and recall

Although compelling evidence supports the value of the musical arts in school, many of us still fight for its inclusion. This timely new resource translates the latest brain and music research and provides practical strategies for incorporating the musical arts at all levels. With sections on both theory and classroom applications, you'll find it easy to put the science into practice immediately and convince others of its benefits. From a primer on how the body hears music to music's impact on stress level, perceptual-motor skills, memory, and emotional intelligence, you're in for a super-sonic feast of facts and findings. Included are tips for choosing music and the various benefits of different music types. There is no other book on the market like this one. Applies to All Levels.(Part Theory, Part Practical)

Learning with the Body in Mind by Eric Jensen

122 Pages - Item #: 604-003	ISBN 1-890460-07-9
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• Discover the learning benefits of games, energizers, play, and P. E.
• Get up to date with the newest research on the mind-body connection
• Join the ranks of educators successfully integrating movement arts into the curriculum

Once considered “extra-curricular,” research now suggests that movement activities are integral to the learning process. From role plays and school theatrical productions to relays and challenge courses, learning is activated when the body is involved. Whether you're an elementary-school teacher or a high-school math instructor discover how to increase intrinsic motivation, improve attitudes, strengthen memory, and boost achievement through the movement arts. This highly readable new resource offers a valuable compendium of practical strategies backed by clinical and classroom research for engaging all learners at all levels. Explore the possibility that more activity, more wisely applied, will make a significant, positive, and lasting contribution to the lives of your learners. Applies to All Levels. (Part Theory, Part Practical)

Sizzle & Substance: Presenting With the Brain in Mind by Eric Jensen

272 Pages - Item #: 604-005	ISBN 0-9637832-9-7
Retail Price - $32.00 ea.	Our Price - $30.60 ea.

You've seen the best-selling books on brain-compatible teaching, now you can get the same ground-shaking insights applied to training. This idea-packed guidebook walks you through the process of planning a brain-friendly presentation guaranteed to win raving fans every time.

Topics include:

• Preparing to Sizzle
• Openings That Ignite a Room
• Essential Sparks
• Fires That Inspire the Mind, and
• Carrying the Torch.

Sizzle & Substance offers so many ingenious ideas and proven success strategies that trainers who read it will be years ahead of their competition.

This is definitely an investment that will pay generous dividends over the short- and long-term. Be one of the first to get on the fast-track train to brain-compatible training and development. (All Practical Applications)

The Creative Training Idea Book:
Inspired Tips and Techniques for Engaging and Effective Learning by Robert W. Lucas

460 pages - Item#: 103-001	ISBN 0-8144073-3-1
Retail $56.67	Our Price $37.95 ea.
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From the author of the popular Big Book of Flip Charts comes a definitive reference of creative ideas, strategies and techniques guaranteed to enhance any adult learning environment.

Based on the author's three decades of training experience, this invaluable resource gives trainers the tools to adopt a fun, energetic approach that will make for a stimulating learning environment.

Readers will learn new methods for:

• Setting the right tone
• Uncovering participant needs
• Grouping participants and selecting leaders
• Avoiding and reclaiming turnoffs
• Encouraging and rewarding participation

Filled with checklists, forms, resources, and dozens of "Bright Idea" blurbs, The Creative Training Idea Book will help trainers and trainees achieve maximum learning results.

Show Biz Training: Fun and Effective Training Techniques from the Worlds of Stage, Screen, and Song by Lenn Millbower

384 pages - Item#: 604-046	ISBN 0-8144-7157-9
Retail $34.95	Our Price $31.95 ea.

Entertainers and trainers have a lot in common. Both require an audience. Both require a polished, professional delivery. And both must attract—and keep—attention. Or else the show is over.

Unlike the audience at a show, training participants are often disinterested and easily distracted. In order to keep them tuned in and help them retain information, trainers are constantly in search of new ways to engage learners. Grounded in the latest adult learning and training theories, Show Biz Training provides creative techniques that use comedy, props, magic, theater, and music, giving readers all the tools they need to perform the many activities found inside. The book uses specific examples and provides step-by-step instructions, resource lists, and worksheets to help trainers support and further learning by engaging emotion, building rapport, creating the proper atmosphere, and crafting lessons out of a host of entertainment-inspired ideas. Packed with fun, original concepts for serious educators, Show Biz Training is a highly informative way to set the stage for exciting, effective learning.

Table of Contents:

Overture
Act I—The Info Fog
Chapter 1. The Distracted Learner
Chapter 2. The World is a Stage
Chapter 3. Let Me Entertain You
Chapter 4. Learnertainment
Act Two—Lessons from Entertainment
Chapter 5. Lessons from Comedy
Chapter 6. Lessons from Music
Chapter 7. Lessons from Magic
Act Three—Stageraft
Chapter 8. The Stage
Chapter 9. Props
Chapter 10. The Script
Chapter 11.Rehearsal
Chapter 12. The Performer
Finale

Super Teaching by Eric Jensen

342 Pages - Item #: 604-009	ISBN 1-890460-02-8
Retail Price - $35.00 ea.	Our Price - $32.95 ea.

• The teacher’s “bible”
• Achieve fabulous results

Get the book that makes your job easier! If you have already purchased an earlier version, it's time to upgrade. Check the cover. If it does not say, “New Easy-to-Read Format” you need this re-edited third edition whether you're starting up new this year or have 30 years of experience. This best seller is jam-packed with hundreds of teaching ideas, classroom strategies, and valuable information on how to reach nearly every student, every time. Thousands of satisfied customers worldwide! Applies to All Levels. 343 pages (Part Theory, Part Practical)

Top Tunes for Teaching by Eric P. Jensen

80 Pages - Item #: 605-020	ISBN 1-890460-43-5
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Formerly a publication of The Brain Store

Choose the right music every time! Music is a powerful classroom tool that enhances cognition, improves memory, energizes sluggish learners, and makes lessons fun for students of all ages.

This resource offers practical tips, suggestions, and lists of songs all personally tested by Eric Jensen during his own trainings, and based on scientific research that supports music’s beneficial effects.

Training With a Beat: The Teaching Power of Music by Lenn Millbower

204 Pages - Item #: 607-060	ISBN: 1-57922-000-2
Retail Price - $29.95 ea.	Our Price - $26.95 ea.

Music holds amazing power over us. While it permeates and gives rhythm to our lives, most of us take it for granted and rarely consider its impact and potential. Training with a Beat is a lively introduction to understanding that force, and applying it to training.

This practical "how-to" guide is written with the musical layperson in mind. The author reveals in straightforward language why music is a critical learning resource, explains the necessary concepts and terms, and concludes with vivid examples of practice and a list of suggested resources. He provides all the background and tools to enable trainers and educators confidently to use music to improve learning.

A valuable and extensive appendix lists recommended CD's and offers track-by-track examples of potential training applications.

Readers of this book will:

• Discover how music contributes to learning
• Understand music theory principles relevant to learning
• Know how to select music appropriate for different training situations
• Discover effective musical games and activities and how they teach
• Understand the related legal and copyright issues

This unique resource will be welcomed by trainers, facilitators, presenters and adult educators looking for additional tools to add impact to their material and improve learning outcomes.

The Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide To Popular Music 5th Ed. by Jeff Green

1569 Pages - Item #: 606-055	ISBN 0-939735-20-2
Retail Price - $64.99 ea.	Our Price - $46.99 ea.

Have you ever wondered, "Who sang that song" when you hear it on the radio?" or "What song would be good to use at a wedding or in the classroom?" Well wonder no more! Whether you are a trainer, educator, presenter, meeting planner, or just someone who wants to know more about songs, this indispensable resource has all your answers. Now in it's 5th edition, The Green Book of Songs by Subject: The Thematic Guide To Popular Music gives information about finding songs about any subject instantly. This new music reference book locates songs and album tracks by themes and concepts, representing all genres and eras, with listings including titles, artists, discographies and labels. A must have for anyone needing music or information about music for any reason or environment. 6 pounds of pure music knowledge and trivia!

Cartoons for Trainers: Seventy Five Cartoons to Use or Adapt for Transitions, Activities, Discussion Points, Ice Breakers and More with CD-ROM by Lenn Millbower and Doris Yager

176 Pages - Item #: 607-061	ISBN: 1-57922-055-X
Retail Price - $39.95 ea.	Our Price - $35.95 ea.

"You can use cartoons as metaphors for the subject at hand, help introduce or wrap-up key concepts, and ease transitions between learning segments. But reproduction fees for using cartoons in public can be expensive, and permissions hard to obtain." "Cartoons for Trainers offers a great solution. Here are seventy-five original cartoons - conceptualized by trainers for trainers - with a license that allows you to incorporate them in all your presentations."

"The cartoons focus on the transition points of any training program. Use them for setting objectives, as introductions, or as part of activities, case studies, role-plays, experiential learning, breaks, evaluations, and closings. They make good-natured fun of the everyday foibles trainers encounter, while addressing the fears that learners have toward training. Lenn Millbower also offers practical tips and guidance."

The cartoons are printed twice; once with captions, and once without, so you can create your own. The PC and Mac compatible image files in the accompanying CD also enable you to include and modify the cartoons in your presentation software.