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OverviewThis book offers nine principles for brain based approaches to accelerating learning, improving motivation and raising achievement. It offers the reader a coherent structure and describes: guaranteed ways to motivate learners esteem-building tools for schools, teachers and parents how to access and teach to different types of intelligence 17 different ways in which schools can make Accelerated Learning work Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alistair Smith , Sara Peach , Stuart Walton , Oliver CaviglioliPublisher: Network Educational Press Ltd Imprint: Network Educational Press Ltd Dimensions: Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 29.70cm Weight: 0.628kg ISBN: 9781855390485ISBN 10: 1855390485 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 01 July 1998 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsIntroduction - extending the horizons of possibility; establishing base camp; into the foothills of learning; the learning journey; resources.ReviewsAlistair Smith's book describes where the science of learning and the art of teaching meet. It offers to teachers something rich and powerful. Not a simple blueprint, but a set of well researched guiding principles on which to build more effective learning. The theory is there to keep the practice visionary and the practice is there to keep the theory honest. It recognises that teaching is not a mechanistic process but a performing art - one that is rooted in an understanding of how learning works and the potential of the human brain to be the architect of its own intelligence -- Professor John MacBeath, Director, Quality in Education Centre, University of Strathclyde Alistair Smith's book describes where the science of learning and the art of teaching meet. It offers to teachers something rich and powerful. Not a simple blueprint, but a set of well researched guiding principles on which to build more effective learning.The theory is there to keep the practice visionary and the practice is there to keep the theory honest. It recognises that teaching is not a mechanistic process but a performing art - one that is rooted in an understanding of how learning works and the potential of the human brain to be the architect of its own intelligence. Professor John MacBeath, Director, Quality in Education Centre, University of Strathclyde Author InformationAlistair Smith is a leading trainer in modern learning methods and his techniques are used with startling success by thousands of teachers and parents in the UK and abroad. He is the chairperson of Alite; a company he founded to work in the field of motivation, learning and training. Alistair has written award-winning books, featured on radio and television programmes, and spoken at conferences internationally. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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