Learning Grows (Hardcover)

Hardcover. Combining a lively voice with scientific research, Learning Grows explores the fascinating and useful world of student motivation. Written for teachersand everyone interested in teaching and learningLearning Grows helps classrooms flourish by fostering students intrinsic motivation.Part I delves into Mindset. Although seemingly well known, this theory is often oversimplified and widely misunderstood. By exploring its step-by-step historical development, we can use it more flexibly and effectively to help learners charge! when they might otherwise retreat.Part II enters the paradoxical world of Stereotype Threat. A surprising cascade of counter-intuitive effects can cause students to struggle in schoolnot because they dont care, but because they work too hard. The right classroom strategies block this demotivational pathway, and thereby foster student learning.By interleaving psychology and neuroscience research with dozens of practical classroom examples, Learning Grows makes these two theories both clear and immediately useful. Learning Grows is the second book in the series A Teachers Guide to the Learning Brain. The first book, Learning Begins, studies the science of working memory and attention. Written for teachersand everyone interested in teaching and learningLearning Deepens helps classrooms flourish by fostering students intrinsic motivation. By interleaving psychology and neuroscience research with dozens of practical classroom examples, Learning Deepens makes these two theories both clear and immediately useful. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…