Learning Skills Cycle - A Way to Rethink Education Reform

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: W. R. Klemm, William R Klemm, William R. Klemm, Klemm William R.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2017
• EAN: 9781475833225
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3322-5
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Administration / General, EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Learning Styles, Educational psychology, Educational administration and organization, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching skills & techniques, School/community relations & school/home relations, Students & Student Organisations, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies