The Brain Power Classroom: 10 Essentials for Focus, Mindfulness, and Emotional Wellness - Softcover

Beal, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1935127934 ISBN 13: 9781935127932

Publisher: Best Life Media, 2016

Synopsis

Create a Focused, Positive, and Engaged Classroom!

Through expert guidance and inspiring stories from the field, Dave Beal helps you create a Brain Power Classroom full of engaged, focused and collaborative students.

Part 1 provides scientific background, principles and insightful advice for creating an optimal classroom atmosphere. Part 2 features 30 classroom activities you can easily integrate into your current curriculum. They are divided into the "Brain Power 10 Essentials" and incorporate various modalities, such as movement, mindfulness, and focusing strategies to engage students' multiple intelligences.

Using the tools in this book, you will be able to motivate your students to use their full brain potential as they develop into harmonious leaders with strong character and high levels of academic achievement.

About this title

About the Author

DAVE BEAL is the Executive Director
and Head National Trainer for Brain Power Wellness. Dave was a New York City public elementary school teacher and has spent the last 15 years training hundreds of thousands of educators, administrators, parents, and students to build use their full brain potential. He has led experiential sessions and lectures at the United Nations, Nike Corporate Headquarters, and the University of Brain Education in South Korea and presented to the Congress of New Mexico. He is the primary holistic wellness coach for the elite Gray Fellowship for Transformative Leadership.

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What Is a Brain Power Classroom?

Classroom (noun) a room, typically in a school, in which a class of students is taught.
Brain Power Classroom (noun) 1. a harmonious, collaborative learning environment co-created by healthy, happy, and engaged students along with their teachers; an environment that utilizes authentic academic rigor, character development, and social-emotional wellness as the foundation for helping members of the class draw out their innate brilliance and cultivate their brightest life purpose; 2. an awesome place to learn and teach.

The concepts and tools you will discover in this book will help you transform your classroom into a Brain Power Classroom. But what exactly does that mean? A Brain Power Classroom is one that possesses the following elements:

- High levels of student engagement
- Passionate, motivated teachers
- Intrinsic motivation to learn
- Positive discipline based on compassion and mutual respect
- Peer teaching and authentic student leadership
- Academic rigor that includes creative assessments, reflecting diverse learning styles and multiple intelligences
- Self-regulation of emotions and physical energy levels
- Routines that foster harmonious collaboration
- Love and laughter
- Healthy, happy humans

All of the above can be achieved by focusing on the following four themes:

1. STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
2. POSITIVE CLASSROOM RELATIONSHIPS
- Student to Self
- Student to Teacher
- Student to Student
3. HOLISTIC HEALTH
4. POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

Edition details

• Publisher: Best Life Media
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935127934
• ISBN 13: 9781935127932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208