Product Description

This is the first book in the UK to apply Accelerated Learning to classrooms: Based on new knowledge about how we learn. Turns theory into classroom practice Focuses on how learners learn. Applies to all learners. What the book covers: How to make greater use of the brain: how to use strategies to improve whole brain learning. Learn how the brain works in learning. Multiple intelligences: if pupils use their various intelligences to access and process information, the pace of learning can be increased and understanding deepened. Learning environment and self-esteem: how teachers can create a learning environment which promotes achievement. Using the BASIS model of self-esteem, it shows how to build and maintain self-esteem and a belief in success. Action points for your classroom: practical ways in which teachers can apply these theories to their own classrooms. Raising pupil motivation and achievement: strategies for helping learners fulfil their potential. The School Effectiveness Series Accelerated Learning in the Classroom is the first title in a new series of books which focus on practical and useful ideas for individual schools and teachers. The series addresses the issues of whole school improvement and new knowledge about teaching and learning and offers straightforward solutions which teachers can use to make life more rewarding for themselves and those they teach.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168859 in Books
• Published on: 1996-05-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

From the Publisher
This book contains contains outstanding ideas for teachers.
This book has become a best seller for Network Educational Press Ltd, and due to popular demand is now in its 4th reprint. It has become the source book for teachers wishing to find out more about how brain based techniques can be used effectively in the primary and secondary classroom.

It is fully illustrated throughout with particular emphasis on the functions of the brain, the building of self esteem, the development of our multiple intelligences, classroom strategies and memory techniques.

If you really want to raise pupil motivation and achievement, then reading 'Accelerated Learning in the Classroom' could prove to be a major contribution to helping your pupils to realise their full potential.

From the Author
The first UK book to apply accelerated learning to schools
This is the first UK book to apply accelerated learning techniques to the classroom. It was written as an easy to read, practical guide for professionals in different fields of education. Its success has taken me by surprise and there are now thousands of practitioners who are applying the methods with success in schools and colleges across the UK and further afield.

From the Back Cover
This is the first book in the UK to apply Accelerated Learning to classrooms:

Based on new knowledge about how we learn.

Turns theory ih promotes achievement. Using the BASIS model of self-esteem, it shows how to build and maintain self-esteem and a belief in success. Action points for your classroom: practical ways in which teachers can apply these theories to their own classrooms.

Raising pupil motivation and achievement: strategies for helping learners fulfil their potential.

The School Effectiveness Series

Accelerated Learning in the Classroom is the first title in a new series of books which focus on practical and useful ideas for individual schools and teachers.

The series addresses the issues of whole school improvement and new knowledge about teaching and learning and offers straightforward solutions which teachers can use to make life more rewarding for themselves and those they teach.

Customer Reviews

one of the must buys for those new to the field
This book has become a standard. I read it first in 1995 and give it to my teaching students as the best and simplest introductory overview to Accelerated Learning. The NLP books are all very remote from the classroom. What his books do in a way that no others do is give you the model, the theory and the practice. Guy Claxton's books are good but he doesn't read as though he's ever been in a classroom.

Essential book for those interested in Accelerated Learning
Having attended one of Alistair Smith's training courses, I was inspired to buy both this book and 'Accelerated Learning in Practice'. I found that these are the most practical books to read if you are keen to implement Accelerated Learning techniques in your classroom.

An easy to understand summary of accelerated learning
This is the most useful bit of writing I've read on accelerated learning. I knew most of this already, but when I put it into the hands of my colleagues at work they rave about it. He is good on self esteem and on what he calls BASIS.