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The Learning Cycle: Insights for Faithful Teaching from Neuroscience and the Social Sciences is unavailable, but you can change that!

How teachers teach is not necessarily how learners learn. Educators generally focus on content delivery. But much of the learning process involves affective and behavioral factors that shape learners’ outcomes. Veteran educators Muriel and Duane Elmer provide a holistic model for how learning takes place. Their learning cycle moves beyond mere recall of information to helping learners value and...

learners to think about how an idea could address a real problem. These include problem-based learning, case studies, simulations, instructional games, and just good old open questions about how an idea applies to practice. These techniques move ideas into working memory, where they establish stronger neural networks and ultimately enhance the probability that learners will act on what they are learning. Could it be that the “great escape” may refer not only
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