From: NPR
Q&A: The Teaching Brain
January 5, 2015
NPR:
Vanessa Rodriguez is co-author, with Michelle Fitzpatrick, of the new book, The Teaching Brain: An Evolutionary Trait at the Heart of Education.
In it, they contrast behaviorist models of instruction, which cast the learner’s brain as an “empty vessel” to be filled with knowledge, with cognitive psychology models, which view learning as a more dynamic and vibrant process, starting at birth.
Rodriguez taught in New York City public schools for 10 years before pursuing a doctorate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in human development and education.
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