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Teaching how to learn in a what-to-learn culture
1 online resource (xvi, 158 pages) : illustrations
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 techniques teachers can use to help students develop their skills as readers, writers, and mathematicians. Hopkins translates the theoretical ideas of Piaget, Vygotsky, and Feuerstein into practical suggestions for teachers to use with their students. Students will benefit from these principles, and teachers may find their cognitive abilities transformed as well. As inspirational as it is practical, the book offers creative suggestions that help students build perseverance and diligent work habits. Teaching How to Learn in a What-to-Learn Culture is designed to apply to any and all learners, including students with special needs, and is richly illustrated with stories, activities, and useful examples from across the content areas.--Book Cover.
About the author -- About the National Institute for Learning Development -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1: Intelligence Dilemma -- Opening the skylight -- Conceptual understanding of intelligence -- Defining intelligence -- Theory one: Cast building -- Theory two: Brick building -- Theory three: Mosaic model -- Classroom activity -- Root of intelligence -- Intellectual potential? -- Mediated learning -- Practical application -- First fable -- Prepare the lesson -- Project the text of the fable -- Build intelligence -- Develop cognitive competence -- Reflection -- 2: Way Out Of The Pressure Cooker -- Pressures are real -- Survey -- Identify the pressures -- Find the way out -- Need for meaningfulness -- Surface versus meaningful knowledge -- Case for cognitive modifiability -- Practical applications -- Reflection -- 3: What Every Teacher Needs -- Survey -- Love of reading -- Intellectual curiosity -- Cultural literacy -- Love of learning -- Competence and confidence -- Reflection -- 4: Big Picture -- Analysis or synthesis? -- Back to the classroom -- Power of the lie -- Rethinking those rows -- Real-life challenges -- Case for handwriting -- Exercise -- Practical application -- Reflection -- 5: Setting Students Free -- Ratcheting up, not dumbing down -- First floor -- Second floor -- Third floor -- Putting in the skylight -- Interesting lesson -- Practical applications -- Meaningful connections -- Realistic dreams -- Reflection -- 6: Power Of Oral Language -- Socratic method -- Research -- Practical applications -- New kind of learner -- Habits of mind -- Reflection -- 7: Moving Beyond Memorization -- Memory systems -- Memory types -- Practical application -- Text -- Lesson -- Reflection -- 8: Those Inner Voices -- Inner speech -- Executive function -- Active working memory -- Practical application #1 -- Case for grammar -- Practical application #2 -- Reflection -- 9: Potential Or Propensity? -- Potential -- Propensity -- Building confidence -- Practical applications -- Mediating a feeling of competence -- Practical application #1 -- More practical applications -- Reflection -- 10: Rediscovering The Joy -- What is your skylight? -- Where are the scholars? -- Power of the fable -- Cultural relevancy -- Struggling learners -- Consider your climate -- Watch your language! -- Finding margin -- One more fable -- Professional joy restorers -- Final word -- References -- Index.
Front Matter -- The Intelligence Dilemma -- A Way Out of the Pressure Cooker -- What Every Teacher Needs -- The Big Picture -- Setting Students Free -- The Power of Oral Language -- Moving Beyond Memorization -- Those Inner Voices -- Potential or Propensity? -- Rediscovering the Joy -- References -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-152) and index.