This book provides teachers and parents with many concepts and tactics that they can use to teach children how to learn more efficiently and effectively. This book identifies and explains those skills and frames them as interacting in a mutually interacting and reinforcing cycle that I call the Learning Skills Cycle.
This book provides teachers and parents with many concepts and tactics that they can use to teach children how to learn more efficiently and effectively. This book identifies and explains those skills and frames them as interacting in a mutually interacting and reinforcing cycle that I call the Learning Skills Cycle.
Dr. W. R. (Bill) Klemm is a Professor of Neuroscience at Texas A&M University who has studied basic and applied research on learning and memory and has published 19 books, many of them for lay audiences. He is a regular writer on learning and memory for Psychology Today, maintains a blog site ("Improve Your Learning and Memory," thankyoubrain.blogspot.com), and provides teachers with lectures and workshops on learning skills.
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Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Educational Reform: Why It Fails Chapter 2: The Big Picture Chapter 3: The Learning Skills Cycle Chapter 4: Motivation Grit Chapter 5: Attentiveness Chapter 6: Organization Chapter 7: Understanding Synthesis Chapter 8: Memory Chapter 9: Analytical Thinking Problem Solving Creativity Epilogue About the Author