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Motivation Theory for Teachers
ISBN: 9780803963214 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Madeline Hunter introduces six factors which can influence a student's motivation to learn: concern, feeling tone, success, interest, knowledge of results and extrinsic-intrinsic motivation. She then illustrates how to use productively these factors in the classroom.
Madeline Hunter introduces six factors which can influence a student's motivation to learn: concern, feeling tone, success, interest, knowledge of res...
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Teach for Transfer
ISBN: 9780803963221 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of 'transfer' addresses the perplexing question: How can students possess knowledge and skills in one set of circumstances and yet not be able to apply those same skills to other situations that require them? Madeline Hunter introduces four factors designed to aid the process of transfer and promote creativity and problem-solving techniques among students: similarity, association, degree of original learning, and critical attributes. This study of 'transfer' addresses the perplexing question: How can students possess knowledge and skills in one set of circumstances and yet not b... |
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Too Scared to Learn: Overcoming Academic Anxiety
ISBN: 9780803965348 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explains academic anxiety, what causes it and what its physical and intellectual effects are. Strategies are provided for teachers and school counsellors to use with students in a one-on-one setting to overcome serious academic anxiety.
This book explains academic anxiety, what causes it and what its physical and intellectual effects are. Strategies are provided for teachers and schoo...
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Bringing Out the Best in Students: How Legendary Teachers Motivate Kids
ISBN: 9780803967571 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Promote student excellence by sustaining a positive learning environment through effective classroom management strategies.
Promote student excellence by sustaining a positive learning environment through effective classroom management strategies.
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Informal Reasoning and Education
ISBN: 9780805802085 / Angielski / Twarda / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on extensive reasoning acquisition research, this volume provides theoretical and empirical considerations of the reasoning that occurs during the course of everyday personal and professional activities. Of particular interest is the text's focus on the question of how such reasoning takes place during school activities and how students acquire reasoning skills.
Based on extensive reasoning acquisition research, this volume provides theoretical and empirical considerations of the reasoning that occurs during t...
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The Thoughtful Teacher's Guide to Thinking Skills
ISBN: 9780805802900 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the vantage of new cognitive theory, this book manages to integrate the thinking skill mission across the full range of formal instruction, from K through graduate school. It explores and prioritizes thinking skill aims at each instructional level, and then details how classroom practice can adjust to achieve those aims.
This guide leads to solid ground, perspective and technique for the individual teacher at any level who wants to enhance thinking skill development. It will prove indispensable to those planning curriculum with a thinking skill emphasis. From the vantage of new cognitive theory, this book manages to integrate the thinking skill mission across the full range of formal instruction, from ...
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Toward a Scientific Practice of Science Education
ISBN: 9780805803457 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume supports the belief that a revised and advanced science education can emerge from the convergence and synthesis of several current scientific and technological activities including examples of research from cognitive science, social science, and other discipline-based educational studies. The anticipated result: the formation of science education as an integrated discipline.
This volume supports the belief that a revised and advanced science education can emerge from the convergence and synthesis of several current scienti...
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Dimensions of Thinking and Cognitive Instruction
ISBN: 9780805803464 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By establishing a conceptual framework and a common language for educators to work together, this volume attempts to answer the challenge facing all teachers -- how can students improve the quality of their thinking? Methods of strengthening the thought process include: helping students learn to monitor their attention and commitments; asking questions that require students to organize, analyze, and integrate information; setting tasks that involve complex processes such as problem solving and research; and modeling and reinforcing fair-mindedness.
By establishing a conceptual framework and a common language for educators to work together, this volume attempts to answer the challenge facing all t...
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Teaching Thinking : An Agenda for the Twenty-first Century
ISBN: 9780805808674 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Comprehensively addressing the development of thinking from a wide variety of perspectives, this volume presents original work from cognitive psychologists, curriculum specialists, federal government and business leaders, politicians, educational theorists, and other prominent figures specializing in this complex field. These experts provide directives for teacher education, textbook development, classroom activities, administrative policies, publication procedures, business connections, community education strategies, and whole school projects as sample plans of action. Designed to spark...
Comprehensively addressing the development of thinking from a wide variety of perspectives, this volume presents original work from cognitive psycholo...
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Constructivism in Education
ISBN: 9780805810967 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unique in offering a multidisciplinary perspective on key issues of alternative epistemologies in education, this collection includes contributions from scholars in family therapy, epistemology, and mathematics, science, and language education. These respected researchers were brought together to develop the theme of constructivism as it applies to many diversified fields. This book examines key distinctions of various constructivist epistemologies, comparing and contrasting the various paradigms. Each section provides both keynote positions on a particular alternative paradigm as well...
Unique in offering a multidisciplinary perspective on key issues of alternative epistemologies in education, this collection includes contributions fr...
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Constructivism and the Technology of Instruction: A Conversation
ISBN: 9780805812725 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the implications of constructivism for instructional design practices, and more importantly, it is about a dialogue between instructional developers and learning theorists. Working with colleagues in each discipline, the editors were amazed to find a general lack of familiarity with each others' work. From an instructional design perspective, it seems that the practice of instructional design must be based on some conception of how people learn and what it means to learn. From a learning theory perspective, it seems obvious that the value of learning theory rests in the...
This book is about the implications of constructivism for instructional design practices, and more importantly, it is about a dialogue between instruc...
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Cognitive Science Foundations of Instruction
ISBN: 9780805812794 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume presents and discusses current research that makes the connection between cognitive theory and instructional application. Addressing two general issues, the first set of chapters specifies the relation between cognitive theory and the development and evaluation of instruction, while the second set deals with the questions involved in understanding and assessing cognitive skills.
The outstanding feature of these chapters is that they all present in-depth discussions of the theoretical issues underlying instructional decisions. Many present specific implementations that provide... This volume presents and discusses current research that makes the connection between cognitive theory and instructional application. Addressing two g...
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Teaching for Transfer: Fostering Generalization in Learning
ISBN: 9780805813098 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transfer of learning is universally accepted as the ultimate aim of teaching. Facilitating knowledge transfer has perplexed educators and psychologists over time and across theoretical frameworks; it remains a central issue for today's practitioners and theorists. This volume examines the reasons for past failures and offers a reconceptualization of the notion of knowledge transfer, its problems and limitations, as well as its possibilities.
Leading scholars outline programs of instruction that have effectively produced transfer at a variety of levels from kindergarten to university.... The transfer of learning is universally accepted as the ultimate aim of teaching. Facilitating knowledge transfer has perplexed educators and psycholo...
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Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance: Issues and Educational Applications
ISBN: 9780805813357 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, educators have become increasingly concerned with students' attempts to manage their own learning and achievement efforts through activities that influence the instigation, direction and persistence of those efforts. In 1989, Zimmerman and Schunk edited the first book devoted to this topic. They assembled key theorists offering a range of perspectives on how students self-regulate their academic functioning. One purpose of that volume was to provide theoretical direction to ongoing as well as nascent efforts to explore academic self-regulatory processes. Since that date,...
In recent years, educators have become increasingly concerned with students' attempts to manage their own learning and achievement efforts through act...
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Student Motivation, Cognition, and Learning : Essays in Honor of Wilbert J. Mckeachie
ISBN: 9780805813760 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in honour of Wilbert J. McKeachie, this collection of essays presents some of the recent research on student motivation, cognition and learning. An explicit attempt is made to link cognitive and motivational constructs theoretically and empirically.
Written in honour of Wilbert J. McKeachie, this collection of essays presents some of the recent research on student motivation, cognition and learnin...
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Handbook of Individual Differences, Learning, and Instruction
ISBN: 9780805814125 / Angielski / Twarda / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for teachers, trainers, and instructional designers -- anyone who is responsible for designing or preparing instruction -- this book begins with one basic premise: individual differences mediate learning at all levels and in all situations. That is, some learners find it easier or more difficult to learn some skills or to learn from certain forms of instruction because they vary in terms of aptitude, cognitive styles, personality, or learning styles. This volume describes most of the major differences in a readable and accessible way and demonstrates how to design various forms of...
Written for teachers, trainers, and instructional designers -- anyone who is responsible for designing or preparing instruction -- this book begins wi...
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Handbook of Individual Differences, Learning, and Instruction
ISBN: 9780805814132 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for teachers, trainers, and instructional designers -- anyone who is responsible for designing or preparing instruction -- this book begins with one basic premise: individual differences mediate learning at all levels and in all situations. That is, some learners find it easier or more difficult to learn some skills or to learn from certain forms of instruction because they vary in terms of aptitude, cognitive styles, personality, or learning styles. This volume describes most of the major differences in a readable and accessible way and demonstrates how to design various forms of...
Written for teachers, trainers, and instructional designers -- anyone who is responsible for designing or preparing instruction -- this book begins wi...
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Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in a Digital World
ISBN: 9780805819847 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Describes a set of educational research projects at the MIT Media Laboratory, illustrating how new computational technologies can transform our conceptions of learning, education and knowledge. The book draws on real-world education experiments conducted in formal and informal contexts.
Describes a set of educational research projects at the MIT Media Laboratory, illustrating how new computational technologies can transform our concep...
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Learning from Text Across Conceptual Domains
ISBN: 9780805821833 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores learning at all ages with a particular focus on middle and high school classrooms. The contributors discuss the factors which complicate the production of readers and writers who understand, learn from and think critically about the information in various forms of text.
This text explores learning at all ages with a particular focus on middle and high school classrooms. The contributors discuss the factors which compl...
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Learning from Text Across Conceptual Domains
ISBN: 9780805821840 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is an attempt to synthesize the understandings we have about reading to learn. Although learning at all ages is discussed in this volume, the main focus is on middle and high school classrooms--critical spaces of learning and thinking.
The amount of knowledge presented in written form is increasing, and the information we get from texts is often conflicting. We are in a knowledge explosion that leaves us reeling and may effectively disenfranchise those who are not keeping up. There has never been a more crucial time for students to understand, learn from, and think critically... This volume is an attempt to synthesize the understandings we have about reading to learn. Although learning at all ages is discussed in this volume, ...
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