New version 2.20 released! Fully featured CD-Rom to allow the profiling of staff and students to determine their learning styles. Unlike many other learning styles assessment tools, this CD-Rom and accompanying manual attempts to characterise individuals in light of the latest findings in brain research. It examines the link between some behaviours and ways the brain processes information and explains how to construct learning episodes that utilise the styles of every student in your class. At the core of this tool is an extensive set of questionnaires for students and teachers. The result is a plot of the user’s profile, which can be saved and exported.

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The Innovative Teachers' Companion
Mind Webs now has in stock the new, revised, 2008 edition of the Innovative Teachers' Companion. Written by teachers, for teachers, the Companion combines the very best elements of chronicles, diaries and lesson planners with dozens of great teaching strategies and ideas. It deals with Bloom’s Taxonomy, Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, Productive Pedagogies, Learning in the Emotional Rooms and Learning Styles. A Valuable Tool in the Quest for Innovative Teaching and Learning. Available in ring bound or loose leaf versions.

Benefits of The Innovative Teachers' Companion

The Innovative Teachers' Companion contains many practical ideas on teaching as it has been written by over 25 practicing teachers. Teachers will have this valuable resource literally at their finger-tips. Since teachers carry this companion around with them all day, it is an easy resource to remind them about teaching, thinking and learning strategies. Each strategy is written in a no-nonsense manner and supported by ideas for that week. Many of these strategies encourage higher-order thinking, which is so vital to a stimulating and rigorous teaching and learning environment.

Plaster Brain Moulds Bulk Classroom Kit

A way to allow all students to have their own model brain!. These Moulds allow the creation of realistic looking human brain replicas in plaster or any other medium you can think of! The moulds produce a brain 105x80x70mm with a display stand. Brains can be painted realistically using supplied painting guides and templates or as outrageous as your imagination will allow. Each mould will produce a number of brains. Note: the brains are a realistic shape and are more difficult to remove from the moulds than some other plaster products.

The entire product was designed, produced and packaged in Australia by Focus Education. Pack is $88.00 inc GST

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Brain and Skull Kit

At Last! a hands-on training tool perfect for teaching about the brain.The brain is an actual size, eight piece, full colour, hand painted plastic replica of a human brain with all the major parts colour coded. The brain pulls apart to reveal all the major components. The brains come inside a full size plastic human skull with moveable jaw, removable teeth and skull top (see the picture). The whole model comes packed in a sturdy, custom made aluminium case. The kit is available for $220.00 Aust. (including G.S.T. for Australian buyers).

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Learning in the Emotional Rooms

HOW TO CREATE CLASSROOMS THAT ARE UPLIFTING FOR THE SPIRIT.

Why do kids act the way they do in schools? How do thoughts and emotions affect the way we view ourselves and our futures? Why mus schools now deal with issues that are not properly or exclusively theirs? What would school look like if we focused on learning rather than teaching?

We are participating in one of the greatest leaps ever in understanding the processes of learning - the most vital imperative beyond survival for every human. Recent findings from neuroscience beg introspection on educators’ long-held beliefs about how young people learn.

In this groundbreaking, totally revised, second edition, Learning in the Emotional Rooms - How to Create Classrooms that are Uplifting for the Spirit, John Joseph draws on decades of experience and research to provide startling and decisive suggestions about the nature of the enterprise we call schooling.

The voices of children, especially those that society regards as disposable, have illuminated this work. This book will challenge your thinking about education.

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Get hours of analytic enjoyment with these 220 mind puzzles. Also contains 250 sayings for students to muse over and make their own puzzles. A fabulous engaging book tochallenge people's thinking.

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Brain Workshop Resources

Finally, you can access the inner world of the human brain. Brain workshop resources on CD Rom. John Joseph's amazing computer generated graphics. Brilliant neural networks, electronic dissections, tours of the Emotional Rooms. Complete with a Teacher's Instruction Booklet, use this package to plan an entire unit of work around how the brain learns. CLASSROOM USE ONLY.

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Learning with the Brain in Mind

The past decade has seen an explosion of information about the brain and its function. More has been learnt about the functioning of the human brain in the last decade than in all the preceding centuries. Applied to classroom practice, this information affirms many elements of taken-for-granted teaching practice, and challenges numerous others. 'Learning with the Brain in Mind' provides a comprehensive approach to practice congruent with brain theory. There is a strong balance between theory and practical classroom application.

Learning with the Brain in Mind - a full day session
• The Four Worlds - identifying individual talents and strengths
• How the human brain develops and learns
• An animated tour of the human brain - brilliant graphics and riveting commentary
• Growing dendrites - the amazing plasticity of the child's brain
• The effects of stress, boredom and enrichment on brains
• The critical role of nutrition, exercise and sleep for optimum learning
• Developmental windows of opportunity - sensitive periods of development
• Information Processing Model and links to Learning Styles
• Recognising and working with student Learning Styles
• How to use feedback to enhance student learning
• Using graphic organisers to make learning memorable
• A range of learning strategies for optimum learning performance

Learning in the Emotional Rooms

There is little doubt that emotional smartness is a critical skill for successful living. The 'Emotional Rooms' model provides a conceptual framework and language to assist teachers and their students in establishing common ground for productive working relationships. The workshop also focuses on the building of resilience in students and teachers alike, as well as highlighting and developing key emotional skills and understandings.

Learning in the Emotional Rooms – a full day session
• Introduction to the Emotional Rooms model
• Developing thinking skills - an explicit approach to teaching students
• Planning and presenting lessons with the Emotional Rooms Model
• Understanding how attitudes and concepts shape student achievement at
school and how emotions influence our thinking and behaviour
• Recognising and labelling emotions
• Developing creative and design thinking skills
• Red Room - strategies for management and prevention
• Using the Emotional Rooms to improve relationships
• Developing behaviour rubrics with the Emotional Rooms in mind
• Discipline with dignity – non-punitive management strategies
• Introduction to the Hope and Despair Cycles
• Introducing the 'Chatz' – managing our own self-talk
• Using questions to build optimism
• Kids at the hard edge – strategies to promote genuine change
• Designing and Implementing components of an 'Emotional Smartness' curriculum