Fifty Nifty Ways to Help Your Child Become a Better Learner [Paperback]

Philip E. Johnson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2004

Parental involvement in the learning process can make a crucial difference in a child’s life. Often, however, despite parents’ best intentions—they lack the skills to help their child beyond learning the school curriculum. Fifty Nifty Ways presents a different approach, and offers fifty proven techniques and principles on how parents and educators can help the child become not only learned, but also a life long learner. Rather than being a passive recipient of information—learning how to learn is a dynamic and exciting method in which children process knowledge into real understanding and become independent thinkers.

Editorial Reviews

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...important philosophy of education: You must help your child become a LEARNER not simply sit there to be TAUGHT. -- Marilyn Heins, MD, Pediatrician, author, lecturer, columnist

A penetrating examination of how students can profit from being taught how to learn, not merely absorb information. -- George Hilliard, Author

An insightful, accessible, and rewarding guidebook that teaches parents precisely how to help their kids experience confidence and success. -- Becky Coleman. Ph.D., Founder, O c e a n - Institute for Embodiment Education

What greater profession is there than to touch the life of a child by teaching him/her to learn. -- Shirley Johnsrud, M.S., M.Ed, Homeschool Teacher Supervisor

About the Author

Philip E. Johnson has taught for many years—from elementary schools to graduate programs. He holds an M.Ed degree and Ph.D. in education. Johnson has been an elementary school principal and Director of Faculty Development at the college level. He had written extensively on the concept of Leaning to Learn and process education. Johnson is the father of four and lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Product Details

• Paperback: 130 pages
• Publisher: Learning to Learn (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0974967602
• ISBN-13: 978-0974967608
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,185,558 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Leading a child into independent thinking and learning skill, June 26, 2004

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"shirljosol" (Soldotna, AK United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fifty Nifty Ways to Help Your Child Become a Better Learner (Paperback)

This book, Fifty Nifty Ways, is on the cutting edge of education's paridigm today. Many teachers will say that they have practiced Dr. Johnson's principals of teaching a child to "learn by figuring it out", before his book came into print. They are the teachers who will be remembered. He highlights learning as a process and when a child discovers on his own, instead of soley reading in a book or hearing from a teacher, then he seeks other answers on his own as well. He becomes what educators hope will happen to him; an independent thinker, always curious, always questioning, and often debating. Children who are given the freedom to learn how to find answers become the independent thinkers we need in our free society. Thank you Dr. Johnson for this wonderful reminder about what education should be; as well as a helpful resource book to guide parents and teachers along this path.
Shirley Johnsrud