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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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Comprehensive guide focuses on developing effective study skills. Explains how to use individual learning styles to become successful at studying in school, on the job, or preparing for an exam. Discusses what to do before, during, and after study sessions to ensure memory and comprehension.
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National literacy program Reach Out and Read reaches kids in a place where they are almost guaranteed to visit: the doctor's office. PBS NewsHour correspondent John Merrow meets a new breed of pediatrician - part doctor, part teacher - who help parents share books with their children to improve and encourage cognitive development.
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Jo Gusman presents "her Foundation-Framework-Tools model to help educators create effective language acquisition programs that meet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements ... This new video features effective teachers, classrooms, and schools that use research-based theoretical frameworks such as Multiple Intelligences, Affective Filter, and Comprehensive Input to help design successful language acquisition programs"--Container
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Differentiated instruction enables teachers to plan strategically to meet the needs of each and every student in today's diverse classrooms. In this new edition of the bestselling Differentiated Instructional Strategies, Gayle Gregory and Carolyn Chapman show teachers how to adjust instruction and assessment methods based on each student' s knowledge, skills, experiences, preferences, and needs. This third edition of Differentiated Instructional Strategies...
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Your child has a unique way of learning. Do you know how to best help him or her learn and succeed? The practical suggestions and helpful tips in this book will help you create a learning environment at home that will help your child learn better and with more confidence. --Publisher.
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"One of the greatest challenges faced by every school and every educator is encouraging and accommodating a full range of student diversity while simultaneously promoting a uniformly high level of academic achievement for all students. Two powerful learning models -- multiple intelligences and learning styles -- provide us with the best means of rising to this challenge. Yet each model has particular strengths and weaknesses that directly correspond...
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"In Intellectual Character, Ritchhart introduces the concept of intellectual character and explores how a "dispositional" view of intelligence - focusing on dispositions such as curiosity, skepticism, and open-mindedness - departs from traditional abilities-based views of what it means to be smart. Drawing on research of classroom practice, the author examines how teachers go about establishing a classroom culture that promotes the thinking dispositions...
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This classic video is an outstanding resource for elementary educators that shows them how to nourish and develop the genius in very young children. Based upon his best-selling book, "Awakening Genius in the Classroom" (published by ASCD), this video features Dr. Thomas Armstrong as he explores the history associated with genius, and debunks the narrow but widely held belief that genius is solely a function of performing well above average in tasks...
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