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Teaching How to Learn in a What to Learn Culture

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In this thought-provoking, informative book, noted education expert Kathleen Ricards Hopkins provides teachers with a hands-on resource based on the latest research on how we learn. Hopkins offers clear, actionable guidelines for teachers to enable all students to gain both the cognitive competence and confidence needed to succeed academically. Using the metaphor of a skylight - a window leading to infinite possibilities - Hopkins provides down-to earth techniquer teachers can use to help students develop their skills as readers, writers, and mathematicians, Hopkins translates the theoretical ideas of Piaget, Vygotsky, and Teuerstein into practical suggestions for teachers to use with their students. Students will benefit from these principles, and teachers may find their cognitive abilities transformed asa well.

As inspirational as it is practical, the book offers creative suggestions that help students build perseverance and diligent work habis. TEaching How to Learn in a What-to-Learn Culture is designed to apply to any and all learniers, including students with special needs, and is richly illustrated with stories, activities, and useful examples from acroo the content areas.

Kathleen Ricards Hopkins, Ed.D., is executive director of the National Institute for Learning Development (NIKD), an international organization dedicated to meeting the needs of students who have difficulty learning, including those with and without specific learning disabilities.

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370 HOP t

Publisher

San Francisco - USA : Jossey-Bass A Wiley Imprint., 2010

Collation

160 p.; ilus.; 25 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-470-34352-4

Classification

370

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Edition

Cet.1, 2010

Subject(s)

Learning, Psychology of teaching
Learning-Study and teaching
cognitive learning

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