Rita Dunn, Andrea Honigsfeld

Differentiating Instruction for At-Risk Students

What to Do and How to Do It

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When the activities described herein are introduced to students whose learning styles they match, most will demonstrate strong abilities to learn and remember new and difficult content within the first four months of beginning_if not earlier. This book is written to prevent more children from becoming at risk and to help those who already have fallen behind their classmates and do not enjoy school.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: R&L Education
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781578869831
• ISBN-10: 1578869838
• Artikelnr.: 25476690

Autorenporträt

Rita Dunn is professor and director of the Center for the Study of Learning and Teaching Styles, St. John's University. Andrea Honigsfeld is associate professor and associate dean in the Division of Education at Molloy College in New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Who Are Students At Risk of Academic Failure and How Should We
Teach Them? Chapter 2 What Is Learning Style? Chapter 3 Teaching Global
Students Globally Chapter 4 Redesigning Classrooms for Increased Comfort
and Concentration Chapter 5 Teaching Tactual Students Tactually Chapter 6
Teaching Kinesthetic Students Kinesthetically Chapter 7 Teaching
Peer-Motivated Students with Small-Group Techniques Chapter 8 Teaching
At-Risk Students with Contract Activity Packages Chapter 9 Teaching
Visual/Tactual Students Who Need Structure with Programmed Learning
Sequences Chapter 10 Teaching Unmotivated Students with Multi-Sensory
Instructional Packages Chapter 11 Experimenting with Learning-Style
Instructional Strategies in Practitioner-Oriented Steps Chapter 12 Research
on the Dunn and Dunn Learning-Styles Model: How Do We Know It Works?
Chapter 13 How Schools, Parents, and Courts Can Respond to Federal Law and
Improve Classroom Teaching for At-Risk Students