In this book, scholars from around the world develop viable answers to the question of how it may be possible to promote students' spontaneity in the use of learning and reasoning strategies. They combine their expertise to put forward new theories and models for understanding the underlying mechani[...]

Memory Techniques: Keeping Your Brain Agile, Sharp, and Forever Young. As a society, we're obsessed with keeping our bodies in prime condition-running, working out, even sweating off fat in the sauna. But what good are taut, lean bodies without a healthy brain? MEMORY TECHNIQUES addresses the im[...]

'The authors remind leaders that the first step in motivating others is changing themselves. This practical book uses case studies, examples, and reflective activities to provide leaders with the knowledge, skills, and strategies to create school cultures in which teachers can find purpose, hope, en[...]

Offers strategies for K-12 teachers of students with learning disabilities. This book helps audiences understand the needs of students with learning disabilities and how to better help them learn.[...]

A book that explains how negative attitudes toward math get established in the brain and what teachers can do to turn those attitudes around. Includes more than 50 strategies (suitable for any grade level) that give students a math attitude makeover, reduce mistake anxiety, and relate math to studen[...]

This best practice guide to teaching in the Further Education and Skills sector, and professional organisational learning contexts, examines the key concepts underpinning effective teaching and learning and combines this with case studies which demonstrate meaningful connections between theory and p[...]

Language Learner Strategies combines principles with research and classroom practice, providing a new view of language learning to inform policy and teaching methodology. Divided into three parts, the book draws links between language learning theory in the established research literature, the autho[...]

With this strategy-filled handbook, education professionals will learn what they can do to help students with mild disabilities -- from high school to post-high school -- develop academic skills inorganizationtest-takingstudy skillsnote takingreadingwritingmathadvanced thinkingFirst, educators will [...]

Teacher preparation programs may not adequately train teachers in how to meet the needs of gifted and talented students in the regular classroom. Several states offer additional teacher preparation programs by providing either an endorsement or certification in the field, but these are often pursued[...]

This is the first book devoted to exploring issues of learning written Japanese, focusing on the challenges the writing system poses for the second language learner. It weaves together previous research on Japanese second language acquisition and kanji learning with original studies on self-regulati[...]

This text should prove useful for teachers, students and bilingual teaching assistants looking for resources and activities to help them raise achievement of minority ethnic pupils and develop a multicultural perspective.[...]