Teaching Around the 4MAT (R) Cycle

Foreword by Gordon Cawelti Prologue About the Authors Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Learning Styles A Cycle of Learning How Perceiving Defines Us as Learners How Processing Defines Us as Learners The Processing Dimension and John Dewey Perceiving and Processing Style Type One Learners: Why? Type Two Learners: What? Type Three Learners: How Does This Work? Type Four Learners: What If? Putting It All Together Chapter 2: A Cycle of Learning First We Experience Then We Reflect Then We Conceptualize Then We Act Finally We Integrate The Cycle Begins and Ends with the Individual Any Successfully Completed Cycle Will Flow to Reflection on Itself The Cycle Is a Consummate Design for Curriculum The Cycle Encompasses Important Assessment Benchmarks The Cycle is a Showplace for Different Styles at Different Places Think About Yourself Other Ways to Look at the Quadrants Chapter 3: Teaching Around the Cycle Quadrant One: Answering the "Why?" Question Quadrant Two: Answering the "What?" Question Quadrant Three: Answering the "How?" Question Quadrant Four: Answering the "If?" Question Plot Your Quadrant Teaching Score Chapter 4: The Brain-Mind Learning System Left- and Right-Mode Processing The Brain Research Left and Right: The Two Hemisphere Continuum Knowing Language Emotion Memory Student Learning Strategy Preferences Teaching Strategies That Favor the Right Mode A Bushel Basket of Right Mode Activities Graphic Organizers Chapter 5: Overlaying Right- and Left-Mode to Complete the 4MAT Cycle Connect Attend Imagine Inform Practice Extend Refine Perform All Real Learning Leaves Us Changed Chapter 6: Teaching From Concepts Working With Concepts Different Teachers, Different Concepts Concepts and Standards 4MAT in Action Chapter 7: The 4MAT Design Overlay (Lesson Planning) The Information Delivery The Skills Practice The Intended Outcomes The Connection Sharing the Connection The Learning Used Critiquing the Work The Image That Connects Adding the Assessments Your 4MAT Plan: A Final Look Epilogue Bibliography Index