Revealing Minds: Assessing to Understand and Support Struggling Learners

Pohlman, Craig

ISBN 10: 0787987905 / ISBN 13: 9780787987909

Published by Jossey-Bass, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Revealing Minds: Assessing to Understand and Support Struggling Learners
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787987905
• ISBN 13: 9780787987909
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Revealing Minds is a practical, hands-on guide to assessing learning problems, based on the approach of All Kinds of Minds, the groundbreaking nonprofit institute co-founded by Mel Levine. Whereas most assessments of struggling learners focus on what is "broken" within a student and needs to be fixed, All Kinds of Minds has adopted a more positive and comprehensive approach to the process. Rather than labeling children or categorizing them into certain pre-defined groups, their optimistic and helpful path creates a complete picture (or "profile") of each student, outlining the child’s assets along with any weaknesses, and identifying specific breakdown points that lead to problems at school.

The process of assessment should be able to answer a question such as, "Why is my son struggling with reading?" with a better answer than, "Because he has a reading disability." Revealing Minds shows how to discover hidden factors―such as language functioning, memory ability, or attention control―that are impeding a student’s learning. It goes beyond labels and categories to help readers understand what's really going on with their students and create useful learning plans.

Providing scores of real-life examples, definitions of key terms, helpful diagrams, tables, and sample assessments, Pohlman offers a useful roadmap for educators, psychologists, and other professionals to implement the All Kinds of Minds approach in their own assessments.

About the Author

Craig Pohlman, Ph.D., NCSP, is a licensed psychologist at All Kinds of Minds, a nonprofit institute helping struggling learners improve their success in school and in life. He has conducted and supervised thousands of assessments of students from kindergarten through college.