Games (and other stuff) for Group, Book 1: Revised & Expanded Activities to Initiate Group Discussion by Chris Cavert MA and Friends

Item #: 605-094	ISBN:
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Includes 37 different activities, over 200 "What Would It Be Like...?" questions, 200 "Are You More Like...?" questions, Teaching Tales and Minute Mysteries to assist you in charging up your group.

Activities focus on expressing emotions, learning names, effects of rumors, gender issues, trust, honor, following directions, creativity, frustration, communication, etc.

Games (and other stuff) for Teachers: Classroom Activities that Promote Pro-Social Learning by Chris Cavert MA and Laurie Frank

134 Pages - Item #: 1105-002	ISBN:
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A wide range of activities put together by teachers to help teachers focus on specific skills including: listening, following directions, communication, problem-solving, interaction, teamwork, diversity and so much more!

The activities are fun and easy to understand. Sample questions provide a basis for discussion, and variations help teachers adjust to skill levels of all ages.

Games for Change: Group Activities with Creative Spiritual Concepts on the Side by Tim Dodds, Lisa Prosser-Dodds MSEd, LPC, NCC and Friends

Item #: 605-093	ISBN:
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A collection of games and activities that generate discussion and impart skills and values, regardless of whether the facilitator includes the optional spiritual concepts.

Each activity contains the necessary components to appropriately facilitate it, including objectives, needs, procedures, and processing questions.

When using the activities with faith-based organizations, each activity also contains the components of spiritual insight, going deeper and going wider, which provide the facilitator with the resources to guide the group through spiritual issues.

Visual Impact, Visual Teaching by Timothy Gangwer

Item #: 1105-015	ISBN: 1-89046-047-8
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The generation of children now moving into and through our educational system is by far the most visually stimulated generation that system has ever had to teach. Having grown up with cable television, video games, computer software, and the Internet, our children are truly visual learners coming of age in an increasingly visual world. These children need to be taught the way they best learn—with visual stimulation accompanied by active learning strategies. Discover how to use photographs and fine arts in your curriculum. This unique book includes hundreds of subject-specific visual learning activities for the classroom! Part Theory, Part Practical Grades PreK–12.

Designing Brain-Compatible Learning by Gayle H. Gregory and Terence Parry

312 Pages - Item #: 606-001	ISBN: 1-41293-717-5
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This revised, updated edition of Designing Brain Compatible Learning synthesizes the latest brain research into a powerful set of teaching and training tools and strategies for integrating thinking skills, cooperative learning, graphic organizers, and authentic assessment into any classroom. The new edition features:

• Step-by-step strategies for teaching concepts, skills, and content to all age groups and learning styles
  
• A newly expanded section on standards-based lesson design and lesson planning
  
• Charts, diagrams, and other visual tools to reinforce learning
  
• A collection of new planning templates and graphic organizers
  
• An extended glossary and updated bibliography

This comprehensive guide for teachers and instructional leaders provides in-depth coverage of instructional planning at its best.

How the Brain Learns by David Sousa

328 Pages - Item #: 606-006	ISBN: 1-41293-661-6
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How the Brain Learns, Third Edition, the newly revised and updated edition of this powerful and practical bestseller, examines remarkable new research and developments in brain functioning while continuing its successful tradition of translating this information into effective classroom strategies and activities.

In this revised edition, best-selling author David Sousa explores source material on brain research, including basic brain structures, how the brain processes information, memory and retention, and the transfer of knowledge to enhance present and future learning. In addition to critical new research about how the brain acquires language, the updated text includes:

• An expanded chapter on thinking skills applying the recently revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
  
• A revised Information Processing Model to reflect new terminology and understanding about memory systems
  
• Additional new examples of how emotions influence learning and memory
  
• New Practitioner’s Corners to assess understanding of major concepts and how these translate into effective classroom strategies
  
• Updated bibliography and Internet resources
  
• An engaging new 2-color interior design

How the Brain Learns, Third Edition is an indispensable tool for all educators-school administrators and teachers, staff developers, pre service students and faculty, and even parents who want to better understand the way their children process and retain information.

Making Learning Come Alive by David Samuel Smokler

112 Pages - Item #: 606-009	ISBN: 1-89046-046-X
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A well-designed game can deliver content while providing high levels of engagement, motivation, and understanding. Making Learning Come Alive gives teachers of any subject the tools to create interactive and meaningful experiences that connect to curricular themes, activate the multiple intelligence's, teach critical thinking and analytical skills, increase student participation, motivate all types of learners, and provide authentic assessment.

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
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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.

Teaching Writing to Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic Learners by Donovan R. Walling

136 Pages - Item #: 606-015	ISBN 1-412925-20-7
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Are your picture-smart, music-smart, and body-smart learners lagging behind their word-smart and number-smart peers?

Donovan Walling offers innovative new ways to help these learners become effective writers! With an emphasis on matching teaching method to learning style and developing both basic writing competencies and higher-level thinking skills, this resource offers instructional strategies, sample lessons, and pathways to fluency that focus on:

• Organizing ideas "artistically"
• Using walkabout strategies to clarify concepts
• Using pattern and rhythm for writing sense, and much more

Twelve sample lessons and a learning styles self-assessment make this an essential resource for teachers, literacy coaches, and curriculum designers who want to expand writing curriculum and incorporate more non-linear methods into their instructional repertoires.

Sit & Get Won't Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain by Marcia L. Tate

168 Pages - Item #: 606-005	ISBN 0-761931-54-6
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Actively engage teachers, rekindle their passion for teaching, and take advantage of the ways the brain learns best! Research and experience prove that students learn better when teachers use brain-based strategies. The same is true with adult learners. However, the very strategies that are recommended for teachers to use in instructing students are seldom reflected in staff development workshops.

"Sit and Get" Won’t Grow Dendrites draws on the latest research in brain-based learning, differentiated instruction, multiple intelligences, and adult learning to provide strategies that not only motivate adult learners but also increase understanding and long-term retention. Author Marcia Tate defines each strategy, explains its theoretical framework in easy-to-understand language, provides multiple professional learning activities that staff developers can incorporate immediately, and includes a guided reflection and application section.

Designed for easy implementation, this practical handbook includes:

• An overview of adult learning theory
• More than 150 professional learning activities
• Several sample professional learning designs
• Opportunities to reflect on and apply the presented strategies

Supported by both learning-style theory and brain research, Tate’s strategies enable all staff development professionals to plan and deliver powerful, memorable presentations that improve teaching practices and increase academic achievement.

This indispensable staff development resource is suitable for anyone who teaches adults, including staff developers, trainers, principals, teacher leaders, and educational consultants.

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
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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!

Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain by Marcia L. Tate

160 Pages - Item #: 606-030	ISBN 1-761938-81-8
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Design fascinating activities and inspire active learning with proven teaching tools!

Attention spans, subject interest, learning styles, and even levels of understanding vary from student to student. Just as every student is different, teachers have their own personalities and teaching styles. Yet years of research confirm that certain teaching tools awaken the desire to learn in students by engaging their brains. And once their brains are engaged, synthesis, and retention of information will soar!

Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites targets teachers as "growers of brain cells" and encourages them to make practical application of the findings of learning style theorists and neuroscientists. Tactile learners, spatial thinkers, and logical minds alike will become eager students as the strategies in this handbook are implemented. Imagine raising student achievement by meeting the learning needs of each student and increasing subject matter understanding, all while enjoying teaching and learning. Marcia Tate demonstrates 20 strategies including:

• Using humor and telling stories
• Implementing problem-based instruction
• Incorporating games into lessons
• Utilizing mnemonic devices and metaphors
• And even singing and dancing while learning

Actively engaging students in the learning process is the best way for them to succeed in school—and in life. Give them an edge by growing their dendrites!

Differentiated Learning Strategies: One Size Doesn't Fit All by Gayle H. Gregory and Carolyn Chapman

160 Pages - Item #: 606-031	ISBN 0-761945-51-2
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Find the strength and uniqueness in every child!

Differentiated instruction enables teachers to plan strategically so they can meet the needs of each and every student in today’s highly diverse classroom … and now the best practices and techniques for differentiated instruction have been brought together in a single volume by two of the field’s most respected proponents.

Differentiated Instructional Strategies presents the practical techniques and processes that teachers can use to adjust learning based on individual students’ knowledge, skills, experience, preferences, and needs. The most recent and best practices in pedagogy--the ones that make a real and positive difference in student achievement--are explored in-depth, including:

• Creating a climate for learning
• Knowing the learner
• Assessing the learner
• Adjusting, compacting, and grouping
• Instructional strategies for student success

A variety of curriculum approaches, including Centers, Projects, Problem-Based Learning, Inquiry Models, and Contracts are all featured, complete with explanations and examples. A planning model is included as well, to help teachers make the right decisions about instruction and assessment on an individual basis. Differentiated Instructional Strategies is an important resource for any teacher, new or experienced, who wants to help every student in the classroom learn and succeed.

How the Brain Learns to Read by David Sousa

256 Pages - Item #: 606-032	ISBN 1-412906-01-6
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Use the power of neuroscience to develop better readers in your class!

What must the brain learn in order to read effectively? What has research revealed about phonics and whole language approaches to reading instruction? Arm yourself with the most current neuroscientific information available and start your students down a lifelong path as successful readers.

How the Brain Learns to Read presents what scientists have uncovered about how children develop spoken language and use spoken language abilities when learning to read. Best-selling author David Sousa explores source material on brain research and provides scores of practical reading strategies for the K-12 classroom. Complete with relevant brain diagrams and informative tables, this exciting new book examines critical concepts including:

• Understanding language acquisition and its relationship to reading
• Incorporating modern research findings in your classroom
• Recognizing and overcoming reading problems, including early intervention programs
• Content area reading with strategies to improve vocabulary and comprehension
• Developing a successful reading program that encourages teachers to be researchers

Reading is essential for success in our society. With this guide to cutting-edge reading research, you’ll find the keys to unlocking reading success in your students!

Becoming a "Wiz" at Brain-Based Teaching by Marilee Sprenger

176 Pages - Item #: 606-033	ISBN 0-761978-60-7
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Practical strategies to integrate brain-based learning into your classroom as easily as clicking your heels!

Through the clever analogy of The Wizard of Oz, Marilee Sprenger provides invaluable information about cognitive research and shares simple tactics for implementing these ideas in the classroom. Learn proven tools for coping with "the Lion’s stress, the Tin Woodsman’s need for emotional intelligence, and the Scarecrow’s desire for higher level thinking."

This user-friendly guide effectively discusses expert findings about brain growth, structure, and functions to help teachers and administrators foster a love of learning in all students. By creating an enriched, brain-compatible environment as outlined in this book, educators can effectively counter such existing negative influences as stress, sleep deprivation, poor nutrition, and a genetic predisposition to disorders in order to cultivate successful lifelong learning.

Key features include:

• Straightforward discussion about memory pathways, learning styles, and multiple intelligences
• Extensive examples from real school situations where brain research has been applied
• Tactics for immediately putting brain-based information to work in the classroom
• Concrete techniques for using music, teams, rapport building, and brain-state changes to stimulate student learning

Action-Packed Classrooms: Movement Strategies to Invigorate K-5 Learners by Cathie Summerford

125 Pages - Item #: 806-030	ISBN 1-890460-45-1
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With this engaging resource, you'll discover how to use movement in the classroom to keep kids focused, excited, enthusiastic, and ready to learn. Action-Packed Classrooms reveals the impressive amount of scientific research showing the link between physical activity and academic achievement. You will find easy, effective ways to integrate action into your academic curriculum. This lively book is jam-packed with more than 150 movement activities that make learning a blast!

Understanding How Students Learn by P.K. Murphy & P.A. Alexander

148 Pages - Item #: 806-031	ISBN 1-4129-0886-8
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Recognize and promote exceptional teaching based on how students learn!

To improve teaching, school leaders must understand how students learn. Authors P. Karen Murphy and Patricia Alexander explore key psychological dimensions of learners and explain how these dimensions can be incorporated into more effective teaching strategies. Their accessible overview of classic and current educational research is part of the Leadership for Learning initiative of the American Association of School Administrators (AASA). Understanding How Students Learn provides guiding principles that school leaders can use to help their teachers develop a learner-centered approach to instruction that enables all students to learn at high levels and do well on common measures of academic achievement.

Concepts explored in-depth include:

• Learner growth and development
• Acquiring knowledge and understanding
• Cultivating learner motivation
• Strategic teaching and strategic learning
• The power of shared learning

In addition to outlining specific guidelines for research-based action, the authors provide leaders with an understanding of student learning that empowers them to work more productively with teachers, parents, community leaders, and students.

Designed for principals and school administrators who have assumed the role of instructional leader, this book will also be an invaluable resource for those contemplating a career in school administration or teachers concerned with improving academic performance.

Energizing Staff Meetings by S. Eller & J. Eller

180 Pages - Item #: 806-032	ISBN 1-4129-2433-2
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Infuse staff meetings with enthusiasm and purpose, and breathe new life into school culture!

Could your staff meetings use a zap of energy? Do you want more participation and less reluctance when you gather your team? Good educators know that fun, emotion, meaningful connections, and high expectations drive learning and committed attention to a task. This sourcebook overflows with strategies, activities, and resources designed to bring these all-important qualities into the faculty meeting.

Teacher leaders will discover the keys to improved collaboration, teamwork, and productivity—and new tools to improve group processes. By modeling best practice at staff meetings, leaders also give their teachers new engagement tools that they can put directly to use in their classrooms. The authors demonstrate how to reduce the "chore" factor of meetings by:

• Lightening the atmosphere with creative approaches
• Starting with purpose-focused theme music and other energizers
• Building relationships within the team that transform the school culture
• Overcoming barriers to productivity
• Rewarding and appreciating staff in innovative ways
• Closing the meeting with a bang—and a plan

As the energy from your staff meetings ripples through the school, every teacher and classroom will experience the motivation and focus that you create!

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
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"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.

The Active Classroom: Practical Strategies for Involving Students in the Learning Process by Ron Nash

153 Pages - Item #: 808-003	ISBN: 978-1-4129-6087-8
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Getting learners students involved in the learning process is a crucial strategy for any teacher or trainer. By actively engaging them in the learning process, you are able to stimulate their brains and help ensure that they effectively gain, retain, recall and use what they are taught.

In this reader-friendly book, Nash has revisited some sound concepts of brain-based learning and examines strategies such as creating a positive learning environment, incorporating structured conversations, effectively managing movement, using music to enhance the experience, using visual aids and technology effectively and a multitude of other techniques. Readers come away with ideas for incorporating what they found in the text into their own learning events in order to help ensure learner success.

UFO Energy Ball

Item #: 808-004
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UFO Energy Ball (set of 6)
Item #: 808-004A
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This is the coolest training aid you'll see for a while. It looks like a small ping pong ball with one hole in the top and two small chrome strips on either side of the hole. By placing one finger on one of the strips and then placing another finger from your other hand on the opposite strip, the energy of your body cause it to light up and sound with no battery assist.

Use it as a team product by placing 6-8 learners in a group, having one person hold the ball and make contact with one metal strip with their right index finger while they hold the right hand of the person to their left side. Have all others join hands likewise with the last person touching the remaining metal strip of the ball with their left index finger. The ball lights up and sounds! Through teamwork they "make a connection" and accomplish their goal!