Learning Unlimited: Using Homework to Engage Your Child's Natural Style of Intelligence (Parenting School-Age Children, Learning Tools, Kids Learning) - Softcover

Dawna Markova; Anne R. Powell

9781573241168: Learning Unlimited: Using Homework to Engage Your Child's Natural Style of Intelligence (Parenting School-Age Children, Learning Tools, Kids Learning)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573241164 ISBN 13: 9781573241168

Publisher: Conari Press, 1998

Learning Unlimited helps parents give their children a competitive advantage by transforming the homework process from a nightly struggle to a joint inquiry into the unique gifts of the child. From the team that forever changed our view in How Your Child is Smart comes a fundamental and intuitive prescription for creating optimal conditions for fostering a lifelong love of learning.

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About the Author:

Dawna Markova Ph.D. is internationally known for her ground-breaking work in helping people learn with passion and live purposefully. She is former research affiliate of the Organizational Learning Center at MIT, and her previous books include The Open Mind, No Enemies Within, An Unused Intelligence, How Your Child is Smart, and Learning Unlimited.

From Publishers Weekly:

Markova and Powell, educators whose last team effort was Your Child Is Smart (1997), are proponents of the teaching movement that uses visual, audio and kinesthetic presentations to educate. Proposing that each child has his or her own personal operating system (POS) to receive, integrate and express learning, the authors suggest ways by which related classroom tactics can be applied to homework. Though the prose describing the glory of learning occasionally turns purple, when Markova and Powell get down to business they come up with innovative options for frustrated parents. For instance, kids who seem better attuned to learning through kinesthetic methods may benefit from practicing spelling words using magnetic letters, or from using marbles to learn math facts. Auditory options include making up a rap song about the respiratory system or creating sound effects to go with a story. Visual learners might create a poster or color code assignments to enhance organizational skills. Multisensory pathways, using all three channels, are also explored. The authors provide questions to help parents determine each child's best way, place and time to complete their homework. This primer is brimming with fun, unusual and practical ideas likely to benefit parents, students and educators.
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