Boosting Brain Power: 52 Ways to Use What Science Tells Us - Softcover

Stamm, Jill (ARIZONA STATE UNIV-TEMPE)

 
9780876593592: Boosting Brain Power: 52 Ways to Use What Science Tells Us

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If the timing is right, the learning that occurs in the first five years can be a gold mine, promoting valuable cognitive and physical development that lasts a lifetime. Boosting Brain Power provides 52 strategies - one for every week of the year - to help teachers stimulate healthy brain growth in young children. In addition to well-researched strategies, each snippet of information offers teachers evidence-based instructions for how to bring the concepts to life in the classroom.

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Jill Stamm, PhD, is the cofounder of New Directions Institute for Infant Brain Development. Dr. Stamm has been an associate clinical professor at Arizona State University in Tempe for more than 25 years. She is the developer of Brain Boxes, a unique set of products designed to help adults interact with young children to encourage healthy brain development. She is an international speaker on brain research and serves on the advisory board for the Learning & the Brain Conference series.

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If you want the children in your care to thrive, you need to know how the brain wires up from birth to age five, and what to do to support it. In easy to understand nuggets of information, this books provides scientifically based research explaining what you can do every day to stimulate healthy brain growth in young children. If the timeing is right, the learning that occurs in the first five years can be a gold mine, promoting valuable cognitive and physical development that lasts a lifetime. 

By reading this primer on brain development, you'll be armed with the basics about how young minds grown and connect with the world. You'll see how important attention, bonding, and communication are in this critical stage. From there, you can explore 52 easy-to-implement strategies - one for every week of the year - that can build on their exicting growth and prime them for future learning. By using your newfound knowledge of the brain intentionally with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, you can ignite sparks that will light up their world!

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If you want the children in your care to thrive, you need to know how the brain wires up from birth to age five, and what to do to support it. In easy to understand nuggets of information, this books provides scientifically based research explaining what you can do every day to stimulate healthy brain growth in young children. If the timeing is right, the learning that occurs in the first five years can be a gold mine, promoting valuable cognitive and physical development that lasts a lifetime.

By reading this primer on brain development, you'll be armed with the basics about how young minds grown and connect with the world. You'll see how important attention, bonding, and communication are in this critical stage. From there, you can explore 52 easy-to-implement strategies - one for every week of the year - that can build on their exicting growth and prime them for future learning. By using your newfound knowledge of the brain intentionally with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, you can ignite sparks that will light up their world!

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