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Accelarated Learning in Practice: Brain-based Methods for Accelerating Motivation and Achievement (Accelerated Learning)

Accelarated Learning in Practice: Brain-based Methods for Accelerating Motivation and Achievement (Accelerated Learning)

by Carol Thompson (Editor), Alistair Smith (Author), OliverCaviglioli (Editor), SaraPeach (Editor)

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    Hardcover 1998

    $29.14
Synopsis

Accelerated Learning in Practice is the author's second book which takes Nobel Prize winning brain-research into the classroom. It uses the author's Accelerated Learning cycle to show what to do so that students are motivated to learn quickly, effectively and with improved recall. There are separate sections on: global learning trends and why we should pay attention to them; 9 principles of learning based on brain-research; guaranteed ways to motivate learners; esteem-building tools for schools, teachers and parents; proven methods for purposeful target-setting; language rich environments; the 7 stage Accelerating Learning cycle; intelligence and how to teach for it; music, movement and memory 17 different ways in which schools have made Accelerated Learning work Accelerated Learning in Practice is structured to help readers access and retain the information necessary to begin to accelerate their own learning and that of the students they teach. With over 100 learning tools, case studies from 36 schools and 7 Local Education Authorities and an up to the minute resources section it is a must for anyone serious about learning.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Network Educational Press Ltd
Published: 01 Jan 1998
ISBN 10: 185539068X
ISBN 13: 9781855390683

Media Reviews
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 Bio
Alistair was born and educated in Scotland. His working life has included time spent as a door-to-door salesman, a labourer on construction sites and in a woollen mill, in adult and prisons education and as a museum guide. Later in life he discovered education and began a crusade to transform teaching in classrooms. His books include Accelerated Learning in the Classroom, The ALPS Approach (with Nicola Call) and The Learning Family: How to Accelerate Your Child's Learning. He is currently working on a generic model of learning and on a publication that describes how brain research can impact on classroom practice. He is series editor of the Accelerated Learning Series for Network Educational Press and runs AL!TE, a training company that aims to help teachers and learners 'expand the horizons of possibility'.