Teaching Children How to Learn

$52.95

SKU: ec9783125013629 Category:

Author:  Gail Ellis, Nayr Ibrahim
Publisher: Delta Publishing

Teaching Children How to Learn addresses learning to learn at a practical level, and will help you meet the diverse learning needs of children by equipping them from an early age with the critical learning skills required to meet the many social, economic and technological changes of the new century, and to foster lifelong learning and creativity.

Key Features:

    • Elaborates a framework of teaching principles for planning how to implement learning to learn systematically and explicitly.
    • Goes down the path towards creating optimum teaching and learning conditions.
    • Introduces the character of Wilbur the Worm, who will accompany both teachers and learners on their journey.
    • Involves the home in the school activities.
    • Provides a bank of activities for teachers to try out in their own classrooms.
    • Structures the classroom activities around the routine of ‘Plan, Do, Review’.
    • Suggests a further element – ‘Share’ – to foster home and family involvement in the learning process.
    • Provides teachers with models which enable them to help the children learn how to learn.
    • Develops teachers’ competence so they will be able to apply the routine to activities of their own
    • Contains additional ideas and interactive activities to assist teachers in their personal and professional development.
    • Relates the principles from Part A more closely to teachers’ individual teaching situations.
    • Encourages teachers to review and reflect on their classroom practice, their teaching strategies, and their self-assessment.
    • Helps teachers to become successful teachers of children who are successfully learning how to learn.