Becoming a "Wiz" at Brain-Based Teaching

How to Make Every Year Your Best Year

With Wizard of Oz metaphors and new graphic organizers, illustrations, and sidebars, this revision helps teachers translate current research on learning, memory, and the brain into effective classroom practice.

Children want to influence their own destinies and will relate this in someway
through their behavior. Theywant some control. Relationships that enable
feelings tobe shared and ideasto be respectedare compelling factors. Children
wantto be listened to and understood. If theydonot have theseneeds met by
adults, they will go totheir peers. This is not always an ideal situation. When
problems arise, an experienced person is usually more helpful. Finally, children
must feelthat their lives ...