Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites (Multimedia Kit): 20 Literacy Strategies That Engage the Brain - Softcover
Synopsis
Demonstrate how 20 powerful strategies can increase student motivation, energy levels, and academic achievement!
Designed around Marcia L. Tate′s best-selling book Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites, this comprehensive multimedia kit offers staff developers all the materials necessary to show K–12 teachers how to use specific brain-friendly strategies to engage diverse learners and significantly increase learning in all content areas. Facilitators will be able to introduce brain facts that enhance learning and demonstrate how participants can integrate instruction with:
- Movement to strengthen content retention
- Storytelling to stimulate higher-level thinking
- Graphic organizers to enhance brain function and increase comprehension
- Writing exercises to improve students′ long- and short-term memory
- Humor to create positive environments that promote learning
- Real-world connections that turn classroom activities into meaningful and lasting experiences for learners
Complete with sample brain-compatible lessons, Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites: A Multimedia Kit for Professional Development includes:
- The companion book Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites, aligned with IRA and NCTE standards and outlining Tate′s 20 strategies
- A 46-minute, content-rich DVD―with an easy stop-and-search navigation menu―demonstrating what the author′s practical strategies look like in real classrooms
- A step-by-step facilitator′s guide connecting the book to the DVD and providing discussion questions, workshop activities, handouts, and agendas for half-day, one-day, and two- or three-day workshops
- A companion CD-ROM containing a digital copy of the entire facilitator′s guide
Ideal for use with pairs, small workshops, or large seminars, this multimedia kit is essential for anyone leading professional development training to help educators meet the academic needs of individual learning styles!
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About the Author
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 series and 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.
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