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Guide to teachers for recognizing their students' styles of acquiring and working with information: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Discusses observation techniques used by visual learners; the hearing and repetition procedures by auditory learners, and the hands-on approach of kinesthetic learners. Identifies ways educators can plan and implement strategies that will best meet the students' learning style.
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Use Program 1 from this movie series to introduce teachers to instructional strategies that are proven to be effective in raising student achievement. Robert J. Marzano explains the rationale for each of these strategies, and classroom scenes show how teachers artfully combine these strategies with effective classroom management and curriculum design to produce better student learning. An embedded professional development plan with a PowerPoint presentation...
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Self-Regulated Design Learning: A Foundation and Framework for Teaching and Learning Design reframes how educators in architecture, landscape architecture, and other design disciplines think about teaching and learning design. The book weaves together concepts of constructivism, social cognitive theory, and self-regulated learning into a solid theoretical foundation for innovative teaching that emphasizes meaning, memory, problem solving, and mastery....
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Do we really have to pay attention to control and direct all our behavior? How is it that we focus our attention on one input or stimulus and ignore the rest? This program answers these questions by examining the following concepts: the selective attention models of Broadbent and Triesman are described using real-life examples such as air traffic controllers; divided attention theories are described and evaluated; and the area of visual attention...
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"Your Child Is Smarter Than You Think!" bridges the gap between "how children think""and learn" and "how they""feel and behave." Dr. Wanda Draper discusses a "whole-child approach" to articulate the child's development and its relationship to behavior and learning from infancy through adolescence. Based on thirty years of experience with thousands of children of all ages, and their parents and teachers, she suggests simple yet powerful ways to help...
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"New educational ideas, theories, and trends materialize every year, but what core principles actually dictate student success, and which strategies reliably create lasting learning? In this invaluable resource, noted brain expert Eric Jensen shows educators how they can achieve consistent, positive learning outcomes using powerful brain-compatible teaching methods. Based on exacting criteria, these methods comprise the physical, social, environmental,...
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From Publisher's Website: Uniquely focused on the teacher-student dynamic, the Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia examines the fundamental psychological aspects of learning such as cognition, motivation, and emotion, as well as individual and environmental factors at work in the classroom. Teachers, school psychologists, those studying developmental and school psychology and the general reader will find nearly 300 alphabetically arranged...
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This video-based course is an exploration of learning theory appropriate for grades K-12 and all subject areas for the training of preservice teachers and the professional development of inservice teachers. The 13 half-hour programs illustrate a variety of learning theories with applications to classroom practice.
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Conditions are needed for knowledge and skills learned in one context to be retrieved and applied to a novel situation, and how different teaching strategies can increase the possibilities for transfer. The program features a fourth-grade teacher and a seventh and eighth-grade teacher, with expert commentary from Lee S. Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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Teachers can enhance their students' motivation by encouraging them to be thoughtfully and critically engaged in the learning process, by supporting their drive for mastery and understanding, and by helping them become self-confident. This program takes a second look at classrooms seen previously to show how motivational techniques work in concert with other learning theories. Stanford University School of Education Dean Deborah Stipek adds her insight...
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Examines the concept of readiness for learning and illustrates how developmental pathways, including physical, cognitive, and linguistic, all play a part in students' learning. Featured are a first-grade teacher, a seventh- and eighth-grade science teacher, and a senior physics teacher, with expert commentary from University of California at Santa Cruz professor Roland Tharp and Yale University professor James P. Comer.
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Covers how prior knowledge, expectations, context, and practice affect processing and using information and making connections. Featured are a first-grade teacher, a ninth- and 10th-grade mathematics teacher, and a special education teacher, with expert commentary from Stanford University professor Roy Pea.
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This film discusses how schools can organize for powerful learning through a coherent, connected approach to teaching and learning that is reinforced and supported by structural features. This session features the staff and students of two schools: a public school in Michigan serving grades three through eight and a first-year charter school in California. Host Linda Darling-Hammond provides expert commentary.
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