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“Showing a personal interest in students is important, costs nothing, and requires little planning.”
― Gayle Gregory, The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance

“teachers should have two goals: All students are able to connect new learning to their prior knowledge and experiences. All teachers relate new learning to students' everyday lives and culture.”
― Gayle Gregory, The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance

“Thought requires concepts, and analogies are perhaps the best way to gradually understand a concept. Analogical thought associates common elements between an understood concept and one that is not yet understood.”
― Gayle Gregory, The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance

“Cognitive psychologists have long suggested that people fit into different learning styles, yet neuroscience does not support this notion (Sousa & Tomlinson, 2011).”
― Gayle Gregory, The Motivated Brain: Improving Student Attention, Engagement, and Perseverance