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How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you
even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical
functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume,
practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are
addressed using the latest exciting research on cognition,
teaching, and learning. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics,
and Science in the Classroom builds on the discoveries detailed in
the bestselling How People Learn. Now, these findings are presented
in a way that teachers can use immediately, to revitalize their
work in the classroom for even greater effectiveness. Organized for
utility, the book explores how the principles of learning can be
applied in teaching history, science, and math topics at three
levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators
explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and
teaching approaches, presenting strategies that serve as models for
curriculum development and classroom instruction. Their recounting
of personal teaching experiences lends strength and warmth to this
volume. The book explores the importance of balancing students'
knowledge of historical fact against their understanding of
concepts, such as change and cause, and their skills in assessing
historical accounts. It discusses how to build straightforward
science experiments into true understanding of scientific
principles. And it shows how to overcome the difficulties in
teaching math to generate real insight and reasoning in math
students. It also features illustrated suggestions for classroom
activities. How Students Learn offers a highly useful blend of
principle and practice. It will be important not only to teachers,
administrators, curriculum designers, and teacher educators, but
also to parents and the larger community concerned about children's
education. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction Part I
HISTORY - 2 Putting Principles into Practice: Understanding History
3 Putting Principles into Practice: Teaching and Planning 4 They
Thought the World Was Flat? Applying the Principles of How People
Learn in Teaching High School History Part II MATHEMATICS- 5
Mathematical Understanding: An Introduction 6 Fostering the
Development of Whole-Number Sense: Teaching Mathematics in the
Primary Grades 7 Pipes, Tubes, and Beakers: New Approaches to
Teaching the Rational-Number System 8 Teaching and Learning
Functions Part III SCIENCE - 9 Scientific Inquiry and How People
Learn 10 Teaching to Promote the Development of Scientific
Knowledge and Reasoning About Light at the Elementary School Level
11 Guided Inquiry in the Science Classroom 12 Developing
Understanding Through Model-Based Inquiry A FINAL SYNTHESIS:
REVISITING THE THREE LEARNING PRINCIPLES - 13 Pulling Threads
Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Contributors Index
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How Students Learn - Science in the Classroom (Paperback, New)
National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on How People Learn: A Targeted Report for Teachers; Edited by John D. Bransford, M. Suzanne Donovan
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R1,182
Discovery Miles 11 820
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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How Students Learn: Science in the Classroom builds on the
discoveries detailed in the best-selling How People Learn. Now
these findings are presented in a way that teachers can use
immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even
greater effectiveness. Organized for utility, the book explores how
the principles of learning can be applied in science at three
levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators
explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and
teaching approaches, presenting strategies that serve as models for
curriculum development and classroom instruction. Their recounting
of personal teaching experiences lends strength and warmth to this
volume. This book discusses how to build straightforward science
experiments into true understanding of scientific principles. It
also features illustrated suggestions for classroom activities.
Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction Part III SCIENCE: 9
Scientific Inquiry and How People Learn 10 Teaching to Promote the
Development of Scientific Knowledge and Reasoning About Light at
the Elementary School Level 11 Guided Inquiry in the Science
Classroom 12 Developing Understanding Through Model-Based Inquiry A
FINAL SYNTHESIS: REVISITING THE THREE LEARNING PRINCIPLES: 13
Pulling Threads Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and
Contributors Index
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How Students Learn - History in the Classroom (Paperback, New)
Committee on How People Learn: A Targeted Report for Teachers, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Edited by …
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R1,304
Discovery Miles 13 040
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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How Students Learn: History in the Classroom builds on the
discoveries detailed in the best-selling How People Learn. Now
these findings are presented in a way that teachers can use
immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even
greater effectiveness. The book explores the importance of
balancing students' knowledge of historical fact against their
understanding of concepts, such as change and cause, and their
skills in assessing historical accounts. It also features
illustrated suggestion for classroom activities.
Critics within and outside the field of education often point out
the absence of a strong reciprocal connection between research and
practice. The emergence of standards-based reform and the passage
of NCLB have generated increasing pressure for evidence-based
decision making at all levels. Yet there is little clarity about
how research results are actually used in education, or what kinds
of evidence are most useful to practitioners and policymakers. In
this book, leading scholars in the field examine the available
research on the use of evidence in education and provide
suggestions for strengthening the research-to-practice pipeline.
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