Smarter Squared: How To Use Personalized Learning to Master School Faster and Create the Future YOU Want! - Softcover

Wyman, Pat

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1540709639 ISBN 13: 9781540709639

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

Sound familiar?
"I wish my learning was related to the real world...
I want to learn at my own pace...
I want to learn things that are connected to what I will do after I leave school...
I know my grades would improve if I could learn my own way and direct my own learning..."

If you are a student, parent or teacher who has said or even wondered about the ideas above, you will want to find out how to use personalized learning to customize learning, create college and career readiness and improve student progress.

Studies from the Rand Corporation and ASCD show that the longer students use personalized learning, the greater the gains in reading and math.

Schools using personalized learning report:
*higher grades
*improved test scores
*more students who enter college.

The 10 Fast Track Actions inside this book reveal a simple system to help students master school faster and create the future they want.

This is the FIRST EVER worldwide goodwill book, with 28 authors from 12 countries around the world, showing students, ages 12-college how to custom tailor and direct their own learning to their interests, passions.

Readers also receive a FREE companion book with study skills strategies for all subject areas called Amazing Grades: 101 Best Ways to Improve Your Grades Faster.

Students discover how to self-direct and take more responsibility for their learning, use exact scripts inside the book to talk with teachers and parents in order to personalize their learning, and follow the 10 Fast Track Actions to master skills needed in school and in life.

About this title

About the Author

Pat Wyman is deeply committed to personalized learning and the success of all students. She has helped millions of students globally with her personalized learning styles assessment and Eye-Q Reading Inventory and is the best selling author of several books, including Smarter Squared: How to Use Personalized Learning to Master School Faster and Create the Future YOU Want; Amazing Grades: 101 Best Ways to Improve Your Learning, Learning vs Testing: Strategies that Bridge the Gap; What's Food Got to Do with It?; Spelling Made Easy, Math Facts Made Easy, Jackson's First Day of School and too many more to mention here. Pat the also founder of HowtoLearn.com, an educational solutions website online for more than 2 decades, with over 2 million visitors a year and invites you to take the FREE personal learning styles quiz on the site to personalize your learning and discover how you learn best. As a university instructor of education, Pat values collaboration and has brought teachers together to work on personalized learning and 'how to learn' for a lifetime projects from countries all over the world. She has been featured in the Washington Post, Ladies Home Journal, Nick Jr. Family Magazine, and is the recipients of many honors including the James Patterson Page Turner Award for her work to enhance literacy. Connect with her on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/howtolearn

Review

"Every parent needs a voice in the learning programs implemented in their child’s school. So often, I find that schools have made the decisions for us, and neither parents nor students have much say over those critical decisions.

In this first book for parents and students, there are specific scripts for kids to be able to speak openly with their teachers (and parents) too) about how to combine their strengths in various subjects and present powerful projects (still meeting school standards) to demonstrate they have mastered those subjects.

It is exciting to me as a parent to know that personalized learning customizes learning to every child’s preferred way of learning as well as to their passions, and shows them how to connect what they learn to the workplace.

Thank you to Pat Wyman and all the authors in Smarter Squared for giving parents a voice to help our kids personalize and self-direct their learning and create the future they want."

-- Stan DiOrio, Attorney and Legislative Policy Analyst

"Personalized Learning has genuinely transformed our district and dramatically accelerates the progress and grades of our students. In fact, we received a $10 million grant from XQ to continue creating the high school of the future. All future-oriented educators should be immersing themselves in personalized learning and we are grateful that Smarter ² includes the information for students to empower themselves and advocate for the use of Personalized Learning to maximize their potential for a lifetime."

-- Devin Vodicka, Ed.D., Superintendent of Schools, Vista Unified School District, Vista, CA

"When I wanted to share personalized learning with my students, I looked and looked for a book I could recommend to my students and their parents. Smarter ² is that book and I love how quickly my students understand the power of personalized learning to shape their destiny! A precious resource for every student, parent and teacher."

-- Michelle Markakis, Teacher

"The personalized learning strategies in Smarter ² truly changed my life! For the first time, I was able to use the information inside this book to customize learning to me personally, and no longer had to learn the same thing, in the same way and at the same time as everyone else.

I am now able to pursue my passion for writing, music and making movies in a very innovative way, and use the technology I love, to allow me to finish my projects in school much faster and with more free time to write my book. Thank you!"

-- Avery D. Student, Minnesota

"As the pressures of our world, economy, and communities create a sense of urgency for us to rethink teaching and learning, Personalized Learning is surfacing as the most effective and aspirational way to ignite the passion of learning for everyone.

Smarter Squared is an outstanding resource for students, parents, and educators to move beyond the aspirational state to truly transforming learning so everyone can succeed.

Thank you to Pat and all the co-writers for your contribution to this work. Call to action: Read this book and then get one for the person(s) you thought of as you were reading it."

-- Laura Henderson, CEO Epiphany Learning LLC.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1540709639
• ISBN 13: 9781540709639
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254