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Title: SuperTeaching by Eric Jensen, Eric P. Jensen ISBN: 1890460028 Publisher: Brain Store Inc Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $32.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38
Rating: 4
Summary: Get off the dead horse of "old school" education
Comment: To those seeking an outline of what education needs to practice so "no child is left behind" this book is a starting point about how people learn. The flow of the book is easy to follow and considers the research findings of how the brain learns in stages of life. Unlike those who consider brain research a "fad", I know from application of the knowledge in this book, the influential changes do produce positive results for students. In the world of "accountability" the tools of Brain Based teaching will allow students and teachers a solution in "leveling the field" for the students from less fortunate environments, which politicians are clueless about in regards the obstacles of "survivalists of poverty". I highly reccommend this book to those wishing to "get off the dead horse" and provide a productive environment for education in the 21st century.
Rating: 1
Summary: Just another stupid educational fad
Comment: It is an unfortunate tendency of people who review books to use any and every error in a book as an excuse for bashing the book, so I have to stop and make sure that I am not falling into that trap. Yet this book is truly awful: it has, literally, hundreds of grammatical and stylistic errors, and there is probably not a page that doesn't have some type of error. Here's just one of the innumerable examples, which contains an error in punctuation and grammar: "The brain sits in a state of stress; and the learner's self-esteem, confidence, and peer acceptance is at stake," (p. 300). What is more astounding about the horrible state of the text is that this is the "revised" edition of the text, which makes one wonder what the first edition was like. All the errors--which, by the way, a high school freshman should know how to correct--make me wonder about the integrity of Jensen's knowledge of the science of the brain--how careful a scholar is he likely to be, when he shows so little familiarity with standards in scholarship? On page 186, for example, he claims that if you look up and to the left, you will have superior access to stored pictures in your brain, while if you look downward and to the right, you're experiencing feelings. Up and to the right is where your eyes go to create new images, he claims. Yeah, right. In another book of his, he claims that students are taking Nimidopine as a memory drug, a statement that has to be absolutely false. What else can one expect from him when in a list of people who have made great contributions to the world he lists, between Steven Hawking and Mother Teresa, Eddie Murphy? That he is very popular among educators and is giving teacher in-services across the country is truly troubling.
Rating: 5
Summary: Maximize learning in the classroom
Comment: This book covers in laymen's terms how the brain works when it comes to learning. It then takes the facts and helps an instructor use this knowledge to transform their training into a valuable experience. A good read and a great reference to keep coming back to.
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Title: Teaching With the Brain in Mind by Eric Jensen ISBN: 0871202999 Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: How the Brain Learns, 2nd Edition (Text & Manual) by David A. Sousa ISBN: 0761977651 Publisher: Corwin Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Different Brains, Different Learners: How to Reach the Hard to Reach by Eric Jensen ISBN: 1890460087 Publisher: Brain Store Inc Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Brain-Compatible Strategies by Eric Jensen ISBN: 0963783270 Publisher: Brain Store Inc Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Learning with the Body in Mind by Eric Jensen ISBN: 1890460079 Publisher: Brain Store Inc Pub. Date: 01 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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