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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
Back cover
Alistair Smith is the leading UK trainer
in the use of Accelerated Learning techniques in the
classroom. Building on his background of research, teaching
and advisory work he has trained over five thousand
teachers and trainers. The Accelerated Learning techniques
have produced incredible results in reaching students
who have previously failed to fully benefit from using
traditional methods.
Accelerated Learning in Practice
is the author's second book which takes Nobel Prize
winning brain-research into the classroom. It uses the
authoršs Accelerated Learning cycle to show what to
do so that students are motivated to learn quickly,
effectively and with improved recall.
There are separate sections on:
- global learning
trends and why we should pay attention to them
- 9 principles of learning
based on brain-research
- guaranteed ways to
motivate learners
- esteem-building tools
for schools, teachers and parents
- proven methods for
purposeful target-setting
- language rich environments
- the 7 stage Accelerating
Learning cycle
- intelligence and
how to teach for it
- music, movement and
memory
- 17 different ways
in which schools have made Accelerated Learning work
Accelerated Learning in Practice
is structured to help readers access and retain the
information necessary to begin to accelerate their own
learning and that of the students they teach. With over
100 learning tools, case studies from 36 schools and
7 Local Education Authorities and an up to the minute
resources section it is a must for anyone serious about
learning.
"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 |
