Relevant Reading List: Encouraging Correct Decisions

Encouraging Correct Decisions
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A unique occupation like teaching requires unconventional preparation.  The Relevant Reading Lists are a series of books that when read together convey a similar message imperative to teaching.  The books listed are not included in typical teacher preparation programs. The Pragmatic TV Teacher feels they should be.  Reading these will make you a better educator.

Your classroom is a social landscape.  As a landscape it needs to be be maintained.  Proper care ensures an environment where your students are encouraged to make correct decisions.  The following resources will help you understand the process of decision making and how to manipulate a situation to facilitate healthy choices.  I consider social psychology one of the most underutilized sciences when addressing education.

Influence by Robert Cialdini
Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstien
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

Start with Thinking Fast and Slow.

Relevant Reading List: Advice to Young Adults

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A unique occupation like teaching requires unconventional preparation.  The Relevant Reading Lists are a series of books that when read together convey a similar message imperative to teaching.  The books listed are not included in typical teacher preparation programs. The Pragmatic TV Teacher feels they should be.  Reading these will make you a better educator.

When leading by example isn't enough, educators need to have relevant resources to consult when young adults need direction.  The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, Never Eat Alone, and So Good They Can't Ignore You are three books that will give you pragmatic advice to share with your students.

Relevant Reading List #5: The Future Landscape of Learning

The Future Landscape of Learning

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A unique occupation like teaching requires unconventional preparation.  The Relevant Reading Lists are a series of books that when read together convey a similar message imperative to teaching.  The books listed are not included in typical teacher preparation programs. The Pragmatic TV Teacher feels they should be.  Reading these will make you a better educator.

The world is changing and so is my philosophy on education.  I started here when beginning to redefine how I approached my profession.  These resources offer a fresh perspective on our future learners.  The ideas discussed in the books were discussed in the popular posts On Ants and Education: Part 1 and On Ants and Education: Part 2.

Consilience by E. O. Wilson
A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink
The World is Flat by Daniel Friedman

Relevant Reading List #4: Academic Article Series

Emotional Arousal and Learning

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A unique occupation like teaching requires unconventional preparation.  The Relevant Reading Lists are a series of resources that when read together convey a similar message imperative to teaching.  The resources listed are not included in typical teacher preparation programs. The Pragmatic TV Teacher feels they should be.  Reading these will make you a better educator

Emotion has a central role in how and what we remember.  Incorporating small emotional cues during your lesson will help your students learn and retain content.  These resources are for educators looking for a small change to increase student learning.

 Nielson, Kristy A., and Mark Powless. "Positive and negative sources of emotional arousal enhance long-term word-list retention when induced as long as 30min after learning." Neurobiology of learning and memory 88.1 (2007): 40-47.

 Steidl, Stephan, Fathima Razik, and Adam K. Anderson. "Emotion enhanced retention of cognitive skill learning." Emotion 11.1 (2011): 12.

 Nielson, Kristy A., and William Lorber. "Enhanced post-learning memory consolidation is influenced by arousal predisposition and emotion regulation but not by stimulus valence or arousal." Neurobiology of learning and memory 92.1 (2009): 70-79.

Relevant Reading List #3

The Brain and Learning

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A unique occupation like teaching requires unconventional preparation.  The Relevant Reading Lists are a series of books that when read together convey a similar message imperative to teaching.  The books listed are not included in typical teacher preparation programs. The Pragmatic TV Teacher feels they should be.  Reading these will make you a better educator.

Neuroeduction is an emerging field that combines educational psychology and cognitive science.  Research concerns itself with HOW the brain learns.  The Blank Slate, The Brain That Changes Itself, and Brain Rules are three resources to start you on your neuroeduation path.

These are three of the most important books I have ever read.

 Interested in others? Try Mariale Hardiman, Eric Jensen  or Howard Gardner. (I have not read all of the resources by each author)

Relevant Reading List #2

Learning is Remembering

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A unique occupation like teaching requires unconventional preparation.  The Relevant Reading Lists are a series of books that when read together convey a similar message imperative to teaching.  The books listed are not included in typical teacher preparation programs. The Pragmatic TV Teacher feels they should be.  Reading these will make you a better educator.

Searching For Memory Daniel Schacter

In Search of Memory Eric Kandel

The Seven Sins of Memory Daniel Schacter

Did you know that for your students to learn something new their brain must physically change?  Neither did I, until I read these books.   Read these books for a better understanding of how the brain behaves, learns, and remembers because in the end, learning is remembering.

Relevant Reading List #1

Student Motivation 101: why do your students do what they do?

A unique occupation like teaching requires unconventional preparation.  The Relevant Reading Lists are a series of books that when read together convey a similar message imperative to teaching.  The books listed are not included in typical teacher preparation programs. The Pragmatic TV Teacher feels they should be. Reading them will make you a better educator.

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us Daniel Pink

Start With Why Simon Sinek

Why We Do What We Do Edward Deci

Student motivation is something we often think is outside our sphere of influence.  I’m sorry to say that it is not and I choose to do something about the level of motivation of the students in my classroom.  Drive, Start With Why, and Why We Do What We Do will teach you how to increase student productivity by addressing student motivation.  Reading them will make you a better teacher.

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