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What could be more frustrating for teachers than teaching an important lesson and then having students unable to recall the content just 24 hours later?

In this new edition of Marcia Tate′s best-selling "Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites", her 20 field-tested, brain-compatible instructional strategies that maximize memory and minimize forgetting are supported by new classroom applications and research throughout. Each short chapter is devoted to one of the strategies and includes: the brain research and learning style theory undergirding the strategy, sample classroom activities utilizing the strategy, and reflection/action planning steps. As Tate′s many workshop participants worldwide can attest, using these strategies will not only help students retain content and increase motivation but will also improve the classroom environment.

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• Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Strategy 1 Brainstorming and Discussion
• Strategy 2 Drawing and Artwork
• Strategy 3 Field Trips
• Strategy 4 Games
• Strategy 5 Graphic Organizers, Semantic Maps, and Word Webs
• Strategy 6 Humor
• Strategy 7 Manipulatives, Experiments, Labs, and Models
• Strategy 8 Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes
• Strategy 9 Mnemonic Devices
• Strategy 10 Movement
• Strategy 11 Music, Rhythm, Rhyme, and Rap
• Strategy 12 Project-Based and Problem-Based Instruction
• Strategy 13 Reciprocal Teaching and Cooperative Learning
• Strategy 14 Role Plays, Drama, Pantomimes, and Charades
• Strategy 15 Storytelling
• Strategy 16 Technology
• Strategy 17 Visualization and Guided Imagery
• Strategy 18 Visuals
• Strategy 19 Work Study and Apprenticeships
• Strategy 20 Writing and Journals
• Resource: Brain-Compatible Lesson Design
• Bibliography
• Index

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Marcia L. Tate, EdD, is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System in Decatur, Georgia. During her thirty-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director.

Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 500,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the eight books in the best-selling Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites seriesand four additional books: Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They're Learning? , 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning K-8, and 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning 9-12, and her latest book, Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms that is designed to address both the personal and professional lives of all educators. Participants in her workshops refer to them as some of the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the twenty strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.

Marcia received her bachelor's degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her master's degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia State University, and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University.

Marcia is married to Tyrone Tate and is the proud mother of three children: Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher, and nine grandchildren: Christian, Aidan, Maxwell, Aaron, Roman, Shiloh, Aya, Noah, and Alyssa.

Marcia and her husband own the company Developing Minds, Inc. and can be contacted by calling the company at (770) 918-5039, emailing her at marciata@ bellsouth.net, or by visiting her website at www.developingmindsinc.com. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @DrMarciaTate.