H. Lynn Erickson's best-selling book for teachers, Stirring the Head, Heart, and Soul, shows how to use concept-based instruction to deepen students' understanding and inspire a genuine love of learning. Based on the third edition of Erickson's book, this guide for staff developers and workshop leaders summarizes the main ideas of each chapter of the book and provides workshop activities, discussion questions, prompts for journal writing, reproducible handouts and overheads, and sample agendas for half-day, one-day, and two-day workshops. The activities show workshop participants how to design concept-based instructional units, how to differentiate for individual ability levels, how to integrate graphic organizers, and how to use scaffolding to develop synergistic thinking and other types of thinking abilities. Erickson is an independent consultant in curriculum design. Annotation 2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
