"Sit and Get" Won′t Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain - Softcover

Tate, Marcia L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761931546 ISBN 13: 9780761931546

Publisher: Corwin, 2004

Synopsis

While very similar in content, tone, organization, and style to Worksheets Don′t Grow Dendrites, this book will be aimed at staff developers. Marcia L Tate draws on adult learning theory and brain research to present 20 strategies for staff developers to use in their presentations. She will retain the user-friendly and popular format from Worksheets: What? (defining the strategy), Why? (research rationale), How? (sample presentation activities), and Reflection (how can I use this strategy?).

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761931546
• ISBN 13: 9780761931546
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 168