Accelerated Learning in Practice [Paperback]

Alistair Smith (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1855390485 | ISBN-13: 978-1855390485 | Publication Date: July 1, 1998

This book offers nine principles for brain based approaches to accelerating learning, improving motivation and raising achievement. It offers the reader a coherent structure and describes:

• guaranteed ways to motivate learners
• esteem-building tools for schools, teachers and parents
• how to access and teach to different types of intelligence
• 17 different ways in which schools can make Accelerated Learning work

Editorial Reviews

Review

Alistair Smith's book describes where the science of learning and the art of teaching meet. It offers to teachers something rich and powerful. Not a simple blueprint, but a set of well researched guiding principles on which to build more effective learning. The theory is there to keep the practice visionary and the practice is there to keep the theory honest.

It recognises that teaching is not a mechanistic process but a performing art -- one that is rooted in an understanding of how learning works and the potential of the human brain to be the architect of its own intelligence

(Professor John MacBeath, Director, Quality in Education Centre, University of Strathclyde )

Alistair Smith's book describes where the science of learning and the art of teaching meet. It offers to teachers something rich and powerful. Not a simple blueprint, but a set of well researched guiding principles on which to build more effective learning. The theory is there to keep the practice visionary and the practice is there to keep the theory honest.

It recognises that teaching is not a mechanistic process but a performing art – one that is rooted in an understanding of how learning works and the potential of the human brain to be the architect of its own intelligence

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About the Author

Alistair Smith is a leading trainer in modern learning methods and his techniques are used with startling success by thousands of teachers and parents in the UK and abroad. He is the chairperson of Alite; a company he founded to work in the field of motivation, learning and training. Alistair has written award-winning books, featured on radio and television programmes, and spoken at conferences internationally.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Network Continuum Education (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1855390485
• ISBN-13: 978-1855390485
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,261,779 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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