Brain-Based Learning: The New Paradigm of Teaching

Excellent book

"Brain Based Learning" suggests a new style of teaching that activates student brains and makes them an active participant in the learning process. Author Eric Jensen is absolutely brilliant with his delivery of this material. His writing style is engaging, profound and insightful. I'm so impressed with the way to weaves together a variety of sources to present his idea for personal transformation. Never before have I read a book that combines material on stress reduction, fight-or-flight, activating both hemispheres of the brain, and flow states-- and applied it to education.Seriously, this book is a masterpiece! You don't have to be a teacher to gleam something from "Brain Based Learning" -- it is also insightful for entrepeniurs, marketers and writers. If you listen to brain synch cds, use light and sound machines, or do any sort of AVE (audio visual entrainment), reading this book will rock your world. I highly recommend this book!

I love this book.I am an instructor for first year teachers in sped settings. This book is a wonderful tool when observing and coaching teachers. The quick referrences for each portion, "what does this mean for me" is the best tool. It gives the teachers very quick and easy ideas of how to use the research and information and apply it immediately.The teachers love how user friendly it is.Perfect for our needs.

A very practical Guide on teaching

I purchased this book to refresh my professional development. The "latest trend" these days in education seems to be shifting to BBL (brain-based learning), so I wanted to update myself.I flipped through it first and saw that there is a lot of diagrams, figures, the text is easy to read, and understand.I haven't read through the entire book, but so far I can tell that this will be a useful reference or resource.