The essence of John Holt’s insight into learning and small children is captured in Learning All The Time. This delightful book by the influential author of How Children Fail and How Children Learn shows how children learn to read, write, and count in their everyday life at home and how adults can respect and encourage this wonderful process. For human beings, he reminds us, learning is as natural as breathing. John Holt’s wit, his gentle wisdom, and his infectious love of little children bring joy to parent and teacher alike.
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Cooperative learning
Unlock the door to successful teamwork! This classic, best-selling book on cooperative learning started a revolution in education. It’s the book that introduced the world to Numbered Heads Together, Three-Step Interview, RoundTable and dozens of Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures. The structures are simple to use as part of any lesson, yet produce unparalleled student gains. Thousands of teachers, schools, and districts worldwide use Kagan Cooperative Learning to boost academic achievement, close the achievement gap, improve student relations, promote thinking skills, and create a more kind and caring school community.
The Special Educator's Tool Kit is an informative and practical guide to help those involved in the education of children with special educational needs. Written with the special educator or teacher in mind, it covers the pertinent issues that relate to providing a structured and meaningful education for children with specific or multiple functional and learning needs.
This book is an essential classroom guide to the teaching of handwriting. It covers all aspects of the subject, from whole school planning; to classroom management, and the teaching of letters in a highly illustrated and practical sequence, from initial letter forms through to joined writing. The author presents many examples and imaginative ideas to make learning to write more effective and interesting for children and for teachers. This new edition includes a section on Special Needs. It deals with complex handwriting problems and how to understand and deal with them.
Spelling, Handwriting and Dyslexa - Overcoming Barriers to Learning
This ground-breaking book argues that spelling and writing need to be given more consideration in teaching and remedial settings especially if dyslexic pupils are to be helped back up to grade level, and other pupils are to make more effective, quicker progress. Helping teachers and student-teachers to understand the valuable contribution spelling and handwriting makes to literacy development in primary and secondary schools, this book shows them how to overcome existing barriers to learning.
