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We always feature three books, but there is much more to explore! Just click on the Blog link and the top of the page for over 100 more exciting book reviews and activities.
Click on the photo of the book you are interested in and you will be taken directly to the blog posting for that book.
Culturally responsive teaching and the brain incorporates brain science and pedagogy in an effort to help instructors create learning experiences that benefit all students. Zaretta Hammond describes her own experiences in San Fransisco in which her school became integrated and she witnessed many children who were years behind in their schooling because and opportunity gap at their previous school has limited their growth. Hammond explains how some classroom environments can activate the fight-or-flight response in students which prevents effective learning. In addition, Hammond identifies the different parts of the brain such as the limbic system and amygdala which are active during this response. Hammond continues by advising instructors to have an understanding of their own experiences and and classroom tendencies. Finally, Hammond provides many recommendations for how to create learning environment that will allow for students to perform to their highest academic abilities rather than being caught in "amygdala hijack".
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In 2008, Dr. Taylor who is a Harvard-trained neuroanatomist delivered one of the first TED Talks and quickly her and TED talks became famous. Her first book, My Stroke of Insight, shared her personal experience of a stroke shutting down her brain over four hours. Because of her background as a neuroscientist, she knew what was happening as her stroke occurred. She suffered damage to her left parietal lobe and her brain was silent for five weeks, but then she began her eight-year recovery. During this time, she came to recognize the power of turning on and off her emotional circuitry by choice. She explains, humans are feeling creatures who think rather than thinking creatures who feel. The left hemisphere is commonly identified as being linear and a sequential processor, while the right hemisphere is a parallel processor. The left brain provides our individuality, while the right brain connects us with the collective whole and consciousness of the universe. Dr. Taylor offers the 4-character framework that identifies a left and right-thinking brain and a left and right emotional brain. By utilizing all 4 characters, she proposes whole-brain living as a way to bring about peace.
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Have you been asked to take a personality test to be matched to the ideal college roommate or perfect summer job? If so, perhaps you have taken the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). But what exactly is this test and should you believe its results? Marve Emre, author of The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing takes the reader on a journey to discover the history of the test and its authors Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers.
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