Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
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Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
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Overview
Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom teachers. This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780470279304 |
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| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Publication date: | 03/16/2009 |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments to the First Edition xiAcknowledgments to the Second Edition xiii
The Author xv
Introduction xvii
Chapter 1 Why Don’t Students Like School? 1
Chapter 2 How Can I Teach Students the Skills They Need When Standardized Tests Require Only Facts? 25
Chapter 3 Why Do Students Remember Everything That’s on Television and Forget Everything I Say? 57
Chapter 4 Why Is It So Hard for Students to Understand Abstract Ideas? 95
Chapter 5 Is Drilling Worth It? 119
Chapter 6 What’s the Secret to Getting Students to Think Like Real Scientists, Mathematicians, and Historians? 143
Chapter 7 How Should I Adjust My Teaching for Different Types of Learners? 167
Chapter 8 How Can I Help Slow Learners? 191
Chapter 9 How Can I Know Whether New Technology Will Improve Student Learning? 217
Chapter 10 What About My Mind? 251
Conclusion 273
Glossary 281
Notes 285
Index 291
What People are Saying About This
"Just like his Ask the Cognitive Scientist column, Dan Willingham'sbook makes fascinating but complicated research from cognitive science accessible to teachers. It is jam packed with ideas that teachers willfind both intellectually rich and useful in their classroom work."--(Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers)
"Dan Willingham, rare among cognitive scientists for also being awonderful writer, has produced a book about learning in school that readslike a trip through a wild and thrilling new country. For teachers and parents, even students, there are surprises on every page. Did you know, for instance,that our brains are not really made for thinking?"--(Jay Mathews, education columnist, The Washington Post)
"Scientists know so much more than we knew thirty years ago about how children learn. This book offers you the research, and the arguments,that will help you become a more effective teacher."--(Joe Riener, English teacher, Wilson High School, Washington, D.C.)
"Just like his Ask the Cognitive Scientist column, Dan Willingham's book makes fascinating but complicated research from cognitive science accessible to teachers. It is jam packed with ideas that teachers willfind both intellectually rich and useful in their classroom work."
—Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation of Teachers
"This readable, practical book by a distinguished cognitivescientist explains the universal roots of effective teaching and learning. With great wit and authority it practices the principles it preaches. It is the best teachers' guide I know of—a classic that belongs in the book bag of every teacher from preschool to grad school."
—E. D. Hirsch, Jr., university professor emeritus, University of Virginia
"Dan Willingham, rare among cognitive scientists for also being awonderful writer, has produced a book about learning in school that readslike a trip through a wild and thrilling new country. For teachers and parents, even students, there are surprises on every page. Did you know, for instance,that our brains are not really made for thinking?"
—Jay Mathews, education columnist,The Washington Post
"Educators will love this wonderful book—in clear and compelling language, Willingham shows how the most important discoveries from the cognitive revolution can be used to improve teaching and inspire students in the classroom."
—John Gabrieli, Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences,Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Scientists know so much more than we knew thirty years ago about how children learn. This book offers you the research, and the arguments,that will help you become a more effective teacher."
—Joe Riener, English teacher, Wilson High School, Washington, D.C.
“A must read for those wishing to improve their classroom and those looking for ways to help their students be successful.”
—G.L. Willhite, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse—Highly Recommended
"Educators will love this wonderful book-in clear and compelling language, Willingham shows how the most important discoveries from the cognitive revolution can be used to improve teaching and inspire students in the classroom."--(John Gabrieli, Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences,Technology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
"This readable, practical book by a distinguished cognitivescientist explains the universal roots of effective teaching and learning.With great wit and authority it practices the principles it preaches!?It isthe best teachers' guide I know of-a classic that belongs in the book bag of every teacher from preschool to grad school."--(E. D. Hirsch, Jr., university professor emeritus, University of Virginia)