Awards
- Short-listed for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award: Parenting 2011
- Shortlisted for ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award: Parenting 2011.
Overview
Marcia Tate's Preparing Children for Success in School and Life: 20 Ways to Enhance Your Child's Brain Power is an authoritative and practical guide for parents who are interested in creating a brain-compatible home environment conducive to the optimal growth and development of their children. In this collection of recommended best practices, Tate draws on what we know about how our brains behave and learn, the latest research in human growth and development, and her 30 years of being a mother to three to explain how parents can design a brain-compatible environment, put a plan into place to help children develop character and responsible behavior, and use key strategies that grow children's brain cells while working with them at home. Similar in format to Tate's other books, Preparing Children for Success in School and Life: 20 Ways to Enhance Your Child's Brain Power will define recommended practices, share research from the fields of psychology and education to demonstrate why the practices should be used, and provide numerous examples on the use of the practice in the home environment.
Full Product Details
Author: Marcia L. Tate
Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint: Corwin Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 17.70cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9781412988445
ISBN 10: 1412988446
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 21 December 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Replaced By: 9781071886700
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
This book offers practical ideas for parents to facilitate children's growth as they mature and develop thinking skills, including how to best work with schools without taking over for them. -- Nic Cooper, Faculty and Author of How to Keep Being a Parent, When Your Child Stops Being a Child 20110608 Written in a conversational style, the chapters flow and the information is cumulative. The author discovered the importance of the brain as it applies to learning and a successful life and then translated the information into an understandable text that is parent and teacher friendly. I loved the book. -- Patricia Baker, Teacher 20110608
This book offers practical ideas for parents to facilitate children's growth as they mature and develop thinking skills, including how to best work with schools without taking over for them. -- Nic Cooper, Author of How to Keep Being a Parent...When Your Child Stops Being a Child 20110608 Written in a conversational style, the chapters flow and the information is cumulative. The author discovered the importance of the brain as it applies to learning and a successful life and then translated the information into an understandable text that is parent and teacher friendly. I love this book. -- Patricia Baker, Teacher 20110608 After Dr. Tate presented 20 Ways to Increase Your Child's Brain Power at our school, a father informed me he planned to re-paint his home because Dr. Tate spoke about how color influences children. How great is that? The parents were so excited about this interactive workshop! Many inquired if a date had been scheduled for Dr. Tate's return visit. -- Charlene Christian-Andrews, Staff Development Coordinator 20110617 This book is an example of how powerful Marcia Tate's brain-based strategies are when applied in the lives of our children. While targeting parents, her strategies are presented in a practical, down-to-earth manner that recognizes that parents are a child's first and most enduring teachers. -- Gina Humphries, Academically/Intellectually Gifted Coordinator 20110621 Marcia Tate brings the same excitement for brain-compatible teaching strategies to parents that she has shown educators for years. She makes all of us-educators and parents alike-think about how we can make our students be successful in school and throughout their lives! -- Kathy Bowie, Curriculum Facilitator 20110621
Written in a conversational style, the chapters flow and the information is cumulative. The author discovered the importance of the brain as it applies to learning and a successful life and then translated the information into an understandable text that is parent and teacher friendly. I love this book. -- Patricia Baker, Teacher 20110608 This book offers practical ideas for parents to facilitate children's growth as they mature and develop thinking skills, including how to best work with schools without taking over for them. -- Nic Cooper, Author of How to Keep Being a Parent...When Your Child Stops Being a Child, and Faculty 20110608 After Dr. Tate presented 20 Ways to Increase Your Child's Brain Power at our school, a father informed me he planned to re-paint his home because Dr. Tate spoke about how color influences children. How great is that? The parents were so excited about this interactive workshop! Many inquired if a date had been scheduled for Dr. Tate's return visit. -- Charlene Christian-Andrews, Staff Development Coordinator 20110617 This book is an example of how powerful Marcia Tate's brain-based strategies are when applied in the lives of our children. While targeting parents, her strategies are presented in a practical, down-to-earth manner that recognizes that parents are a child's first and most enduring teachers. -- Gina Humphries, Academically/Intellectually Gifted Coordinator 20110621 Marcia Tate brings the same excitement for brain-compatible teaching strategies to parents that she has shown educators for years. She makes all of us-educators and parents alike-think about how we can make our students be successful in school and throughout their lives! -- Kathy Bowie, Curriculum Facilitator 20110621
Author Information
Marcia L. Tate, EdD, is the former executive director of professional development for the DeKalb County School System in Decatur, Georgia. During her thirty-year career with the district, she has been a classroom teacher, reading specialist, language arts coordinator, and staff development executive director. Marcia is currently an educational consultant and has taught over 500,000 administrators, teachers, parents, and business and community leaders throughout the world. She is the author of the eight books in the best-selling Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites series and four additional books: Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They’re Learning?, 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning K–8, and 100 Brain-Friendly Lessons for Unforgettable Teaching and Learning 9–12, and her latest book, Healthy Teachers, Happy Classrooms that is designed to address both the personal and professional lives of all educators. Participants in her workshops refer to them as some of the best ones they have ever experienced since Marcia uses the twenty 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 in Ann Arbor, her specialist degree in educational leadership from Georgia State University, and her doctorate in educational leadership from Clark Atlanta University. Marcia is married to Tyrone Tate and is the proud mother of three children: Jennifer, Jessica, and Christopher, and nine grandchildren: Christian, Aidan, Maxwell, Aaron, Roman, Shiloh, Aya, Noah, and Alyssa. Marcia and her husband own the company Developing Minds, Inc. and can be contacted by calling the company at (770) 918-5039, emailing her at marciata@ bellsouth.net, or by visiting her website at www.developingmindsinc.com. You can also follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @DrMarciaTate.
