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Join the teaching revolution that’s sweeping the U.S. … and the world! 150,000 registered members of WholeBrainTeaching.com worldwide: 5,000,000 YouTube views: 15,000,000 pages of free ebooks downloaded from WholeBrainTeaching.com, one of the world’s largest, free, education websites! If your rambunctious kids are driving you batty, read this book. Guffaw with delight as your class, guided by the Guff Counter, halts back talking students in their tracks! Weep with joy at the power of the Independents that turns rebel cliques against each other. Gasp in awe as you discover Mirror, the simple technique that makes every lesson magnetically engaging. Chortle with merriment as the magical Scoreboard transforms classroom management into a living video game.
Whole Brain Teaching, a grass roots, education reform movement, begun in 1999 by three Southern California teachers, has attracted an astonishing following among educators across the U.S. and in 30 foreign countries.
Based on cutting edge scientific research, Whole Brain Teaching recognizes that students learn the most when they are engaged in lessons that involve seeing, hearing, doing, speaking and feeling.
Join the revolution! Transform your students from passive receivers of information to dynamic creators of high energy lessons.
“In my 38 years in education, I have never seen a more successful classroom management system than Whole Brain Teaching. It’s simple, effective and powerful. Chris Biffle and his colleagues have developed a strategy that works for all students.”
Dominic F. Mucci, Superintendent of Schools, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Publisher : Whole Brain Teaching LLC
Publication date : March 4, 2013
Language : English
Print length : 292 pages
ISBN-10 : 0984816712
ISBN-13 : 978-0984816712
Item Weight : 1.03 pounds
Dimensions : 6 x 0.66 x 9 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book an amazing tool for guiding whole brain teaching experiences, with clear explanations of classroom management techniques that make students very engaged in their learning. Moreover, the book is easy to read and implement, making classes fun and exciting. Additionally, customers appreciate its effectiveness and fast-paced nature, with one customer noting how it makes school days fly by.
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Erin Cauffman –
College
This book got me through some college teaching courses that I was having a hard time understanding and this book also gave me other perspectives. 100 out of 100
Kelly Shepherd –
Game changer!
I stumbled upon the Whole Brain Teaching videos on YouTube while I was looking for ideas for brain breaks about 6 years ago. The WBT methods have been a game changer for me. I love looking out on 25 energetic, excited, and engaged students while I am teaching using the methods. I’ve adapted many and made them my own. For those that think that this is a rigid way to teach, that is not so. You get to read, watch others in action online, and practice the techniques in the privacy of your own classroom as presented. Then, see what matches your own teaching style. From my own experience, WBT has made a huge impact on my teaching. I’ve gone from “sage on the stage” teaching to engaging students in short micro-lectures, having them practice paraphrasing what I’ve said, checking for understanding, then having students apply what they’ve learned. The thing that I’ve enjoyed the most is the classroom management parts. I’m free to teach and I’m not constantly managing behavior.After a few years of just using the management pieces, I began using the oral writing. WOW! I’ve never had such strong writing since I began teaching 21 years ago. The conventions of writing are taught using “brainies” … These are gestures that go along with the rules of writing (capitalization, punctuation, end marks, quotation marks, apostrophes, indenting, etc.). The class practices orally first, then we write. As I’m walking around helping individuals, all I have to do when I see something missing is make the gesture with the accompanying sound and the student knows what to fix. It’s brilliant!I have also incorporated several other “games” such as the Super Improver Wall (works on individual improvement in anything from behavior issues to academic success), the Super Speed Reading (works on sight words), Super Speed Grammar (works on grammar rules), Smoothy Bumper Planet (works on the 17 tricky numbers 1-100 … esp. the teens), and Mind Soccer (a high energy review game).This book covers mainly the classroom management side of things. Once you realize how well your class can run using these methods, you will want more. For that, check out the new book: 122 Amazing Games and the website. There are endless resources out there for WBT and, other than the books, they are all FREE!!!
Jules –
Makes teaching fun and easy!!
I can’t say enough about Chris Biffle or this awesome book. I first learned about Whole Brain Teaching in 2002 when it was known as Power Teaching. I was in my second year of teaching in a very tough urban neighborhood. Our school was adjacent to the projects and the area had graffiti, vandalization, gangs, illicit drugs, domestic violence, etc.My colleague was a past student of his and dragged me to out to his free Saturday morning classes sponsored by our district. He also came to our school and demonstrated strategies in my own classroom. I am forever grateful for all the strategies I’ve learned as without them I wouldn’t have survived teaching. Eventually I came to present on Power Teaching a few times at Charter School Conferences and once with Mr. Biffle himself in a break out session for third grade teachers, all because I wanted to help spread the word.My current school uses many of his techniques with success. Class, class is used an attention getter in all classrooms, assemblies, and in our after school program. Many teachers also use the happy/sad points as I do. I’ve had great success with all the strategies for challenging students including independent scoreboard, rehearsing rules, and the Bulls Eye Game. I also use SuperSpeed reading games to increase fluency and Concept Pixs for a review of standards using Jeopardy and a hanging chart. I just began incorporating the Super Improvers board I learned at the last Whole Brain Teaching presented by Co-Founder Chris Rekstad and I blog about it here.As as a mentor teacher to new teachers I’ve also imparted the wisdom of his ways to them and it has saved some struggling teachers from either quitting or getting canned for poor classroom management. Whenever I’m able to head back to my hometown area and catch another Whole Brain Teaching free workshop I gather up more teacher friends to go with me, and we come away with even more great strategies.
Lindley M Watts –
What a resource!
I heard about this on a chat line and decided to investigate! The book is such an amazing resource and a wonderful staring point to this program. It is backed up by a raft of videos and printables that make implementing the ideas easier in a busy teachers life. I found a group of like minded Australians with whom I could share the ideas raised in the book and discuss the forms and againsts.The wording of the last rule was inappropriate for my situation so I adjusted it, the energy level is high so not recommended that you read this when you are feeling frazzled.Read over the longest of your holidays and you will be inspired, I guarantee it!
DIDIER –
L’ ouvrage correspond à mes attentes. Le contenu est intéressant, il me reste à expérimenter dans le contexte. Je conseille cet ouvrage.
Quentin Dalrymple –
I cannot over emphasise the importance of this book.It WILL become the world standard for teaching in general, in the years to come.It will help with your day to day lesson provision technique, and also give you numerous tried and tested Whole Brain techniques to keep your most challenging students engaged and behaving.Loads of linked videos on YouTube. It’s all free.Your enthusiasm for the profession, if it is diminishing, will be rejuvenated.Don’t eat or sleep until you’ve bought this.Power to the teachers.
Laura Alfonso Muñoz –
Realmente no me lo he acabado, pero estoy cerca del final. El caso es que no sé si aplicado a secundaria seria del todo útil, cada profesor tiene que ver las necesidades especÃficas de cada clase. Sin embargo, los métodos me parecen muy dinámicos y creo que el libro da un montón de buenas ideas incluso para los que no quieren seguir el método al 100%
Butterfly59 –
This is the most amazing program I’ve seen in more than thirty years of teaching. It’s a comprehensive classroom management, teaching program, and student assessment protocol that can be used from the youngest students, right through college level. It’s fun for both students and teachers alike and you won’t believe the incredible things your learners will be able to achieve! The book itself is well layed out, easy to read, understand, and implement. In addition to the book, there are an incredible number of top-notch free resources including; instructional videos, videos of classroom teachers using Whole Brain Teaching, and downloadable materials and power points, which are available at: WholeBrainTeaching.com. Be sure to also check out Chris Biffle’s latest, and newly released book:122 Amazing Games, for the latest developments in Whole Brain Teaching. You’ve got to get this book!!!
pennae –
Oh my goodness. Where do the positive reviews come from? This book is full of behaviourist strategies that are repeated over and over (yes that is their mantra but is it really necessary to reproduce the images and associated strategies so many times?). The approach to management relies on extrinsic motivation and a lot of surface-level knowledge retention. Points systems in class? Really? More or less homework as a reward? Really?The main message from this book to me was to feel pity for those teachers in the US. The strategies and tactics seem out-dated and not appropriate for K-12 as suggested on the front cover. For an alternative, check out Bill Rogers’ work (‘Cracking the Hard Class’ or ‘Behaviour Recovery’) – far more useful and effective.