(Unlimited ebook) Upgrade Your Teaching: Understanding by Design Meets Neuroscience FOR ANY DEVICE

How can educators leverage neuroscience research about how the human brain learns? How can we use this information to improve curriculum, instruction, and assessment so our students achieve deep learning and understanding in all subject areas? <em>Upgrade Your Teaching: Understanding by Design Meets Neuroscience</em> answers these questions by merging insights from neuroscience with Understanding by Design (UbD), the framework used by thousands of educators to craft units of instruction and authentic assessments that emphasize understanding rather than recall.<br /><br />Readers will learn<br /><br /><br /><br />- How the brain processes incoming information and determines what is (or is not) retained as long-term memory; <br />- How brain science reveals factors that influence student motivation and willingness to put forth effort; <br />- How to fully engage all students through relevance and achievable challenge; <br />- How key components of UbD, including backward design, essentia