Lucky to Be a Teacher: Life-Changing Affirmations for Positive Classrooms Review
This gem of a workbook expands on 33 affirmations and reflection questions to help readers establish goals, maintain a positive perspective, and remain committed to excellence.
Your Brain on Childhood: The Unexpected Side Effects of Classrooms, Ballparks, Family Rooms, and the Minivan Review
If you wanted to design a way of life that was exactly counter to the needs of developing brains, you would invent something like modern childhood.
We strap newborns into bouncy seats in front of television sets and enroll them in early learning centers. During toddlerhood, we give them learning laptops, battery-powered toys, and educational DVDs. As they get older, we ferry them from dance classes to violin lessons to soccer practices. We push them to do the sorts of things we see more mature brains doing, believing that brain development is a race—the faster our children's brains finish, the better.
But to capitalize on the way the human brain was built to grow, we have to redesign children's environments—their homes, schools, toys, and pastimes. In Your Brain on Childhood, developmental psychologist Gabrielle Principe uses scientific evidence to explain the disconnect between the brain's evolutionary history and our children's technology-centered present—and suggests ways for us to naturalize childhood again.
The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" Review
