The Power of the Adolescent Brain: Strategies for Teaching Middle and High School Students (2016)
In this book, Thomas Armstrong explains what we know about how the adolescent brain works and proposes eight essential instructional elements that will help students develop the ability to think, make healthy choices, regulate their emotions, handle social conflict, consolidate their identities, and learn enough about the world to move into adulthood with dignity and grace.
Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making (2020)
In this book, Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver contend that the ability to "earn" understanding will equip students to thrive in school, at work, and in life. The authors highlight seven higher-order thinking skills that facilitate students' acquisition of information for greater retention, retrieval, and transfer.
Neurodiversity: The Future of Special Education?
If we want to use the most effective approaches with kids—and draw on new research about the brain—special education needs to change its approach.
Encouraging Neurodiversity in Your Makerspace or Classroom
While students with neurological differences face daily challenges, they bring unique qualities of focus, nonlinear thinking, recall, and brainstorming enthusiasm to a makerspace or classroom.