Excellence in Teaching and Learning: The Quantum Learning System

Excellence in Teaching and Learning: The Quantum Learning System demonstrates that the integration of the Brain s Natural Learning Systems and the Quantum Learning System creates an impact that transforms the way teachers teach and students learn. Two educational innovators Barbara K. Given, Ph.D., and Bobbi DePorter, CEO of Quantum Learning Network have teamed up to empower educators to achieve the desired goal that students leave high school prepared for success in college and career with strong character and citizenship traits.

With today s more rigorous standards, much is expected from teachers and often little direction or support is provided for how to achieve required results. Without new information and professional development tools to improve instruction and develop positive learning cultures, these expectations may be unrealistic. Excellence in Teaching and Learning: The Quantum Learning System provides the how along with supporting evidence that supplies teachers with the knowledge required for excellence in teaching.

The book focuses on two main sections Components of Culture and Components of Cognition, each with three parts that cover one of the learning systems and the corresponding Quantum Learning component. Culture consists of Social Learning/Foundation, Emotional Learning/Atmosphere, and Implicit Learning/Environment. Cognition encompasses Cognitive Learning/Design, Physical Learning/Deliver, and Reflective Learning/Deepen.

Barbara K. Given, Ph.D., is author of Teaching to the Brain s Natural Learning Systems (2002) and Learning Styles: A Guide for Teachers and Parents (1999/2000). Barb is retired after more than 50 years as a teacher, associate professor, and researcher. She began her career working with children and youth with mental retardation, and later taught second grade before returning to teach students with learning disabilities and emotional disturbances. In 1974 Barb initiated the Special Education Teacher Preparation Program at George Mason University (GMU), Fairfax, Virginia, and served as its coordinator for several years. During this time she also initiated an on-campus academic summer program (Breakthrough Learning) for children and adolescents with learning and behavior difficulties and the graduate student intern teachers who taught them. After retiring from the Graduate School of Education, Barb served as a research faculty member with the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Studies at GMU.

Bobbi DePorter is author or co-author of more than a dozen books including, Quantum Teaching (1999), Quantum Learning (1992), The Seven Biggest Teen Problems and How to Turn Them into Strengths (2006) and The 8 Keys of Excellence (2000). Bobbi is cofounder and CEO of Quantum Learning Network (QLN), a leading education company based in Oceanside, California. QLN produces Quantum Learning district and school programs for teachers, administrators, and students, and SuperCamp summer enrichment youth programs, now with over 75,000 alumni and programs in 14 countries. QLN s programs have positively impacted more than 100,000 teachers reaching ten million students over the last 30 years. The Quantum Learning Excellence in Teaching program is the basis for this book.