Optimizing Learning Outcomes: Proven Brain-Centric, Trauma-Sensitive PracticesOptimizing Learning Outcomes provides answers for the most pressing questions that mental health professionals, teachers, and administrators are facing in today’s schools. Chapters provide a wide array of evidence-based resources—including links to video segments—that promote understanding, discussion, and successful modeling. Accessible how-to trainings provide readers with multiple sensory-based practices that improve academic success and promote behavioral regulation. Clinicians and educators will come away from this book with a variety of tools for facilitating brain-based, trauma-sensitive learning for all, realizing improved learning outcomes, improving teacher satisfaction, and reducing disciplinary actions and suspensions. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Not Doing More Doing Differently | 9 |
2 On Becoming a SelfReg Haven | 30 |
Changing Physiology Behavior and Performance | 58 |
Classroom Strategies | 74 |
StudentTeacher Relationship | 95 |
Effective Effort | 119 |
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Optimizing Learning Outcomes: Proven Brain-centric, Trauma-sensitive Practices William Steele No preview available - 2017 |
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