Attack of the Teenage Brain: Understanding and Supporting the Weird and Wonderful Adolescent Learner Audiobook (Free)

Marvel on the neuroscientific reasons why smart teens help to make dumb decisions!

Behold the mind-controlling power of executive function!

Thrill to a eyesight of a better school for the teenage mind!

Whether you’re a parent getting together with one adolescent or a teacher getting together with many, you know teens could be hard to mother or father and even harder to instruct. The eye-rolling, the moodiness, the wandering interest, the drama. It isn’t you, it’s them. Even more particularly, it’s their brains.

In about Attack from the Teenage Human brain: Understanding and Assisting the Weird and Wonderful Adolescent Learner accessible language and with periodic references to Star Trek, motorbike daredevils, and near-classic movies of the ’80s, developmental molecular biologist John Medina, writer of the New York Moments best-seller Mind Rules and Human brain Guidelines for Baby, explores the neurological and evolutionary factors that drive teenage behavior and may affect both achievement and engagement. Then he proposes a research-supported counterattack: a striking redesign of educational practices and learning environments to deliberately develop teenagers’ cognitive capacity to manage their emotions, strategy, prioritize, and concentrate.

Attack from the Teenage Mind! is an enlightening and entertaining browse that will modification how you think about teen behavior and quick you to consider how else parents, teachers, and policymakers may collaborate to greatly help our challenging, sometimes infuriating, often strange, and genuinely fantastic kids become more effective learners, in college and beyond.