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Teaching How to Learn
The Teacher's Guide to Student Success

First Edition

Foreword by William H. Peltz



March 2014 | 208 pages | Corwin
Use this four-step method to maximize instruction and dramatically impact student learning!

Discover how you can both strengthen instruction and help students acquire successful learning strategies by using the tested SOAR approach to: select key lesson ideas; organize information using comparative charts and other representations rather than lists or outlines; associate ideas to create meaningful, memorable relationships; and regulate and reinforce learning through practice testing. Teachers will find:

Detailed explanations for using each SOAR teaching strategy

Guidelines for fostering student self-motivation and behavior self-management

Methods for embedding student learning techniques within content instruction to develop students' capacity to learn in any setting

 
Foreword by William H. Peltz
 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
Part I. SOAR Strategies
 
1. Helping Students SOAR
 
2. Helping Students Select
 
3. Helping Students Organize
 
4. Helping Students Associate
 
5. Helping Students Regulate
 
Interlude
 
Part II. Support Strategies
 
6. Helping Students Motivate
 
7. Helping Students Manage Behavior
 
8. Helping Students Become Extraordinary
 
References
 
Index

Excellent read!
Presented in a clear, simple and enaging manner (the use of humour very good).
One of the best books I've read on the subject.

Ms Yvette Summers
Youth Studies, Gloucestershire University
October 12, 2010
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Foreword

Preface


Kenneth A. Kiewra

Kenneth A. Kiewra is an expert on learning strategies, homework, and study methods. A professor of educational psycholgy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he presents regulary at AERA and other national confereces, in addition to working with local schools. Kiewra is the author of two textbooks with Prentice Hall and Allyn & Bacon, as well as dozens of journal articles.  His research interests include: learning strategies, knowledge representation, strategies for note-taking and studying, cognitive factors related to writing ability, and the development of talent and expertise. More About Author

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ISBN: 9781412965347
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