Product Description

This work 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; and 17 different ways in which schools can make accelerated learning work.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #219563 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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

From the Author
These methods produce incredible results for all students
This book was written to provide ready methods for accelerating learning. It attempts to link the most recent published brain research with tools from motivational psychology, Transactional Analysis and NLP, in a structured cycle for learning. I've used the methods successfully with over five thousand teachers and trainers world wide. Schools and Local Education Boards in the UK are using the methods. Some of the techniques are being deployed by the Prison Education Service in Northern Ireland. I have consistently been impressed by the way the basic principles are used in the most challenging of circumstances to provide real gains for students. Whether the student is a four-year old learning to read or an adult preparing for a career change, the methods seem to work.

In the book I learning; methods for building positive self-belief; a 7 stage cycle for accelerating learning; how to teach for intelligence; music, movement and memory and ways to make it all work!

I hope it's as much fun to read as it was to research and write.

From the Back Cover
Accelerated Learning in Practice is the author's second book which takes Nobel Prize winning brain-research into the classroom. It uses the author's 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.

Customer Reviews

A must for all teachers
As a Head of Department of Modern Languages, I bought this book for my own reference. Having read it, I ordered copies for my department. Along with a clear explanation of theory, the practical suggestions help you to put theory into practice. I strongly disagree with the reviewer from Manchester - it's the teachers who need to do the learning, in order to make their teaching most effective! This is a book that gives a great introduction to Accelerated Learning. We have now tried out many of the ideas and booked INSET days and outside speakers to help us to accelerate the learning of all our pupils.

The most accessible author on practical Accelerated Learning
I have read all the books by this author and find them invaluable tools for the classroom. Numerous case studies gave me a great deal of food for thought. If you are interested in Accelerated Learning and want a book to help you to get started, I recommend any of the books by Alistair Smith. You can then follow up with more specific reading such as Goleman or Gardner.

A useful and valuable book.
As a classroom teacher and head of a science department in a large High school I found this book to be an invaluable aid in helping me to focus the department on teaching and learning. As a department we have adopted the learning cycle wholesale and have reformatted our schemes of work around it. We find it an essential planning tool.