Product Description

By adopting accelerated learning principles you can teach in a way that maximises your students' chances of reaching their potential. This pocketbook offers paractical strategies and techniques that get results.

After outlining the background to accelerated learning, Brin Best explains how to prepare your students for learning and how to create the right learning environment. A chapter on teaching strategies covers questioning techniques and styles of teaching & learning, with suggested activities helpfully linked to each of the multiple intelligences as identified by Howard Gardner. A detailed self-evaluation framework serves as a tool to help you review and develop practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #26632 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Gifted & Talented Update, April 2004
Best has done much of the hard work for you, synthesising current information and practical applications into handy, bite-size chunks.

Synopsis
The process begins by ensuring that the students are ready (physiologically and emotionally) to learn and that they have a working environment that promotes effective learning. "The Accelerated Learning Pocketbook" explains what this entails and then moves on to describe the strategies for accelerated learning. A useful self-evaluation framework is described that will enable teachers to judge and record how far along the continuum of accelerated learning they have reached and what they need to do to move to the next level.

About the Author
Brin Best is managing director of Innovation for Education Ltd. an education training, publishing and consultancy company based in Yorkshire. He has fulfilled a wide variety of roles within education, including classroom teacher, college lecturer, head of dpeartment, school development officer and LEA advisory teacher. He writes and speaks widely on education issues and has a special interest in teaching and learning.

Customer Reviews

Very Nice Powerful Little Book
Has all you need as a 101 intro to smart learning techniques. It's so good you will spend a year getting all this stuff ingrained before you look for another book on the subject. AND you can read it all in about 2 hours.

In the same vein, Michael Tipper also does a great job with Secrets of Successful Students. And Kevin Paul's american published book Study Smarter not Harder was one of the best I could find when studying the subject at college last year. These three books really do cover the ground - but any one will give you a year's worth of tools and techniques to work on if it's for yourself.