Learner's Toolkit: A Teacher's Guide to Developing Essential Learning Competencies (Independent Thinking Series)

The Learner s Toolkit is an essential guide to creating truly independent learners, who are both confident and resilient in their ability to learn and learn well. This ability to learn effectively is vital in today s world and will be even more vital in tomorrow's. This ability has been at the heart of the recent personalized learning movement and this book shows children how to do it.

The book contains 50 lessons to teach 50 different competencies. Each lesson has a series of teacher s notes on leading the activity and the CD-ROM that comes with the book has all of the student forms and worksheets necessary for each lesson. Included are lessons vital competencies that will help students learn and contribute more effectively in school, and which are needed in order to survive and thrive in the increasingly fast paced world of the 21st Century. Designed for grades 6-12.