Marvel in the neuroscientific reasons why smart teens produce dumb decisions!

Behold the mind-controlling power of professional function!

Thrill to a vision of an improved college for the teenage brain!

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

In about Attack from the Teenage Mind: Understanding and Assisting the Weird and Amazing Adolescent Learner available 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 Situations best-seller Human brain Rules and Human brain Rules for Baby, explores the neurological and evolutionary factors that get teenage behavior and can affect both achievement and engagement. Then he proposes a research-supported counterattack: a vivid redesign of educational procedures and learning environments to intentionally develop teenagers’ cognitive capacity to control their emotions, strategy, prioritize, and concentrate.

Attack of the Teenage Mind! is an enlightening and entertaining go through that will transformation the way you think about teen behavior and quick you to consider how else parents, teachers, and policymakers may collaborate to help our challenging, occasionally infuriating, often weird, and genuinely fantastic kids become more effective learners, in school and beyond.