Understanding Effective Learning
Strategies For The Classroom
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2008
191 pages
978-0-335-23549-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines learning in a range of classroom settings and drawing on evidence from teachers and pupils, through interviews and observations, with an aim to understand learning in the classroom, and to develop practices which will support learning.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Defining approach of this book
- Structure of the book
- Chapter 1: Overview: What is learning?
- Classroom context and questions
- Learning and instruction
- A complex view of learning
- Models of learning and instruction
- Self-regulated learning
- Learning strategies
- Metacognition
- Motivation and emotions in learning
- Summary of implications for the teacher
- Chapter 2: The problem with learning
- Curriculum developments and learning: English as an example
- Brain fact and fiction
- Developing thinking
- Learning styles and strategies
- 'Affective' and 'effective' learning
- Summary of implications for the teacher
- Chapter 3: The competing social setting of learning
- The wider context for learning
- The school setting
- Coping strategies
- The self
- Network of interdependencies
- Summary of implications for the teacher
- Chapter 4: Learning strategies and the individual learner
- A framework of self-support learning strategies
- Strands of self-support learning strategies
- Pupil perspectives on learning
- Boys' and girls' perspectives on learning
- Self-support strategies and self-regulation
- Summary of implications for the teacher
- Chapter 5: Learning strategies and the teacher
- Teachers and learners
- Contingent teaching
- Self-support strategies and the teacher
- Teacher and pupil perspectives
- Objectives-led learning and teaching
- Summary of implications for the teacher
- Chapter 6: Whole school approaches to learning strategies
- Whole school issues in learning
- Learning in four schools
- Developing self-support strategies in the National Curriculum
- Developing self-support strategies in the Key Stage 3 Strategy
- Developing classroom practice
- From individualized teaching to the learning of individuals
- Further strategies for developing classroom learning
- Summary of implications for the teacher
- Chapter 7: Conclusion
- Planning for the use of learning strategies
- Reflection on learning strategies
- Socialization and personalization
- Summary of implications for the teacher
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover
