Accelerated Learning in Practice: Brain-based Methods for Accelerating Motivation and Achievement - Hardcover

Smith, Alistair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 185539068X ISBN 13: 9781855390683

Publisher: Network Educational Pr Ltd, 1998

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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About the Author

Alistair Smith is a leading trainer in modern learning methods and his techniques are used with startling success by thousands of teachers and parents in the UK and abroad. He is the chairperson of Alite; a company he founded to work in the field of motivation, learning and training. Alistair has written award-winning books, featured on radio and television programmes, and spoken at conferences internationally.

Review

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)

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.

(Sanford Lakoff)

Edition details

• Publisher: Network Educational Pr Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 185539068X
• ISBN 13: 9781855390683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256