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Jump-Start the Adult Learner: How to Engage and Motivate Adults Using Brain-Compatible Strategies
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Product Description "Overall this text is a very interesting read with significant applicability to both advisors and faculty. The creative advisor will have no problem synthesizing Materna′s ideas and theories of brain-compatible learning strategies into daily interactions with students and faculty." ― Jennifer Varney, Hesser College Use these interactive strategies to help adults become more self-directed in their learning, improve their ability to comprehend and apply complex information, and unleash their creative potential. Review "This outstanding book combines neuroscience, education, and nursing to create an energetic and practical guide to the adult brain. You′ll finish it feeling as if you′ve just been entertained and enlightened." -- Sheryl Feinstein, Associate Professor Published On: 2006-12-04 "Makes brain-based learning understandable and practical for the instructor who already feels overwhelmed with a multitude of daily classroom activities and ′too much to teach.′ The author has generated a system to help faculty sift through what′s effective and what′s not." -- Kristie L. Kroening, Nursing Instructor Published On: 2006-12-14 "An excellent guide for anyone who teaches adults." -- California Bookwatch, October 2007 Published On: 2007-11-07 "Overall this text is a very interesting read with significant applicability to both advisors and faculty. The creative advisor will have no problem synthesizing Materna′s ideas and theories of brain-compatible learning strategies into daily interactions with students and faculty." ― Jennifer Varney, Hesser College -- Jennifer Varney, NACADA Published On: 2007-12-14 About the Author Laurie Materna is a professor of nursing at Milwaukee Area Technical College. Materna’s interest in brain research includes the relationship between nutrition and learning, the use of graphic organizers to promote learning, and the development of learning styles and multiple intelligences in adult learners. She has integrated brain-compatible learning methodologies into nursing theory and clinical courses, and has coached many educators individually and through group inservices on developing brain-compatible strategies for specific classes. Materna has appeared before college and professional groups throughout the United States, and presented at the Brain Expo in San Diego in 2005. She earned a doctoral degree in education through Capella University.
