The past twenty years have seen breakthroughs from cognitive scientists investigating thinking and learning as well as school anthropologists probing the culture of classrooms, schools, and their community contexts; but these valuable insights have yet to be applied to public education on a broad scale. Smart Schools is the first book to show how these pathbreaking findings can he effectively used within the classroom. Although there has been much debate over the sad state of American education today, and a variety of solutions have been offered ranging from school choice to national testing, surprisingly little attention has been paid to how children actually learn to think. As Perking persuasively demonstrates, we cannot solve our education problems by simply redistributing power or by asking children to regurgitate facts on a multiple choice exam; rather we must look at the kinds of knowledge students typically acquire in school. As his own and others' research indicates, students from first grade on through college often have only the most fragile and superficial kind of knowledge even after considerable instruction in a subject. He shows where students typically make mistakes by examining the kinds of misguided strategies they use in trying to understand a topic. He also shows why traditional teaching approaches often result in the students' limited grasp of a subject. Perking then introduces an impressive array of methods that have been shown to dramatically increase a student's understanding. His is a workable, practical model for change. Parents, teachers, principals, and members of school boards, as well as all those concerned about the state of education in our nation today, will find Smart Schools indispensable reading that offers systematic methods to help students to think and perform more effectively.

Smart Schools:

Education & Teaching

Perkins, David N.

Schools & Teaching

Free Pr

This book is a critical combination of both the theory and ideas behind the teaching of thinking and very practical strategies to teach thinking in the individual classroom. Six brief "theoretical" chapters are followed by a chapter of practical strategies.

The Thinking Classroom: Learning and Teaching in a Culture of Thinking

Tishman, Shari

Jay, Eileen

Pearson

Analyzes the current educational system, describes the ways in which children learn, and suggests practical techniques for improving student understanding

Smart Schools

PRENTICE/HALL

How can school learning be expanded to matter more in learners’ lives? How can school leaders shape an institution to stay true to its core commitments and thrive as a center of contemporary learning? Leading Learning that Matters offers a flexible process to help school leaders and their communities construct a vision of what learning really matters for the lives their learners are likely to live and then make that vision a daily reality in classrooms. This book, with ideas informed by research and tested in practice, will:\n• guide you through the four key dimensions of the Leading Learning that Matters (LLtM) process – creating shared vision, developing collaborative structures, supporting individual development, and sustaining progress\n• provide tips and tools for building and refining a vision of learning that matters for your students, and for organizing and tracking the progress of the LLtM process\n• show what Leading Learning that Matters looks like through pictures of practice from schools that have embarked on the LLtM process\nLeading Learning that Matters is for any school leader who wants to ensure that their school is preparing students to thrive in the contemporary world and is ready to explore what that looks like through a collaborative process.

Leading Learning that Matters: A Leadership Process to Rethink What’s Taught and How for Today’s World

Wilson, Daniel G.

Chua, Flossie S. G.

Chua, Perkins & Wilson

First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Knowledge As Design

Routledge

How to Teach for Transfer (Mindful School) [Paperback] Robin Fogarty (Author)

How to Teach for Transfer (The Mindful School)

Fogarty, Robin

Barell, John

Skylight Professional Development

Surfing on Quicksand: Navigating a World of Information, Opinion, and Spin

Science & Math

Behavioral Sciences

Independently published

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