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About This Book
As children’s first teachers, parents need to provide a firm foundation for lifelong learning. In this new book, award-winning educator Marcia L. Tate provides a research-based road map for raising respectful, responsible children who achieve to their fullest potential. The best-selling author, mother, and grandmother shares brain-compatible strategies for guiding children toward personal, academic, and career success. Her latest book provides parents and caregivers with a wealth of practical tips and tools for:
• Creating a calm and brain-compatible home environment
• Incorporating positive physical contact and verbal communication
• Encouraging play that develops creativity and imagination
• Strengthening children’s auditory, tactile, kinesthetic, and visual modes of learning
Preparing Children for Success in School and Life shows parents how to help children’s brains “grow dendrites” in everyday ways such as telling them stories, using music to enhance memory, turning homework time into fun time, and allowing them freedom to draw and write. From day one through graduation and beyond, you and your family will reap the benefits of the author’s 30+ years of experience with thousands of children.
Topics : Books for parents
Table Of Content
Foreword
Eric Jensen
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Introduction
PART ONE: Preparing Children for Success in Life
Chapter 1. Develop a Relationship With Your Child
Chapter 2. Hug, Rock, and Love Your Child
Chapter 3. Surround Your Child With a Calming Environment
Chapter 4. Give Your Child a Brain-Healthy Start
Chapter 5. Talk To and With Your Child
Chapter 6. Read To and With Your Child
Chapter 7. Provide Opportunities for Creative Play
Chapter 8. Teach Your Child Rules, Rituals, and Responsibility
Chapter 9. Accentuate the Positive
Chapter 10. Deemphasize the Negative
Chapter 11. Identify Chronic Behavior and Mood Disorders
Chapter 12. Expect the Best and Visualize Success
PART TWO: Preparing Children for Success in School
Chapter 13. Laugh and Have Fun; It's Good for You and Your Child
Chapter 14. Strengthen Your Child's Auditory Mode of Learning
Chapter 15. Strengthen Your Child's Visual Mode of Learning
Chapter 16. Strengthen Your Child's Kinesthetic Mode of Learning
Chapter 17. Strengthen Your Child's Tactile Mode of Learning
Chapter 18. Make Memories With Music
Chapter 19. Connect Content With Your Child's Life
Chapter 20. Partner With Your Child's Teachers Afterword
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Marcia L Tate:
Marcia L. Tate, EdD, is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School
System, Decatur, Georgia. During her 30-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director. She received the Distinguished Staff Development Award for the state of Georgia, and her department was chosen to receive the Exemplary Program Award for the state.
Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught more than 400,000 parents, teachers, administrators, and business and community leaders throughout the world, including Australia, Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Oman, Singapore, Thailand, and New Zealand. She is the author of the following six best sellers: Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain (2nd Ed.); “Sit & Get” Won’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Professional Learning Strategies That Engage the Adult Brain (2nd Ed.); Reading and Language Arts Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Literacy Strategies That Engage the Brain (2nd Ed.); Shouting Won’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Techniques for Managing a Brain-Compatible Classroom (2nd Ed.); Mathematics Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Numeracy Strategies That Engage the Brain, and her book for parents, Preparing Children for Success in School and in Life: 20 Ways to Increase Your Child’s Brain Power. Her most recent books are Science Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain, cowritten with Warren Phillips, and Social Studies Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: 20 Instructional Strategies That Engage the Brain. Participants in her workshops refer to them as some of the best they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the 20 brain-compatible strategies outlined in her books to actively engage her audiences.
Marcia received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and elementary education from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her master’s degree in remedial reading from the University of Michigan, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia State University, and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University. Spelman College awarded her the Apple Award for excellence in the field of education. Marcia is married to Tyrone Tate and is the proud mother of three children—Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher—and the doting grandmother of four grandchildren—Christian, Aidan, Maxwell, and Aaron. Tyrone and Marcia own the consulting firm Developing Minds Inc. and can be contacted by calling (770) 918-5039 or by e-mail: marciata@bell south.net. Visit her website at www.developingmindsinc.com.
- ISBN: 9786038147054
- Author: Marcia L. Tate
- Publisher: Educational Book House
- Publish Year: 2015
- Size: 17*24cm
- Pages number: 212
