NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 4 results Save | Export
Bonnema, Ted R. – Online Submission, 2009
This paper discusses brain-based learning and its relation to classroom instruction. A rapidly growing quantity of research currently exists regarding how the brain perceives, processes, and ultimately learns new information. In order to maximize their teaching efficacy, educators should have a basic understanding of key memory functions in the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Learning Processes, Brain, Educational Research
Keefe, James W. – 1991
Learning style is the foundation of successful teaching and teaching for thinking. The recent conceptualization of the brain as a complex system for processing and storing information can be meaningful to educators. Too many schools, however, rely on a rather mechanistic approach to learning. Future school administrators must be taught to…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, High School Students
Townsend, Frank C.; Townsend, Catherine M. – 1992
This paper builds a case for the use of multimedia to meet students' varied learning needs instead of relying solely on the traditional lecture/textbook/workbook approach. Piaget's theory of intellectual development is used as background for a discussion of developing teaching strategies based on individual learning styles, and various theories of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Style, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
More, Arthur J. – 1993
Learning styles are the mental processes and instructional settings a student uses most effectively while learning. Five dimensions of learning style related to cognitive processes are global-analytic, verbal-imaginal, concrete-abstract, trial and error plus feedback versus reflective, and modality (preferred sense for input). In addition, there…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences