Accelerated learning in practice: brain-based methods for accelerating motivation and achievement

✍ Scribed by Alistair Smith

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book 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 17 different ways in which schools can make Accelerated Learning work

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
How to use this book......Page 8
A note on memory mapping......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction: A model of learning Memory map of Introduction......Page 14
1 A new paradigm for learning......Page 16
2 The Accelerated Learning in the Classroom Cycle......Page 24
3 Nine principles for brain-based learning......Page 28
4 The brain and its construction for learning......Page 31
Section One: What the most recent brain research tells us about learning Memory map of Section One......Page 36
Preview of Section One......Page 38
1 Multi-sensory stimulation......Page 40
2 Learning, challenge and stress......Page 41
3 Feedback and choice in learning......Page 45
4 Whole brain learning......Page 49
5 Learning to learn - the personal search for meaning......Page 55
6 The multiplicity and modifiability of intelligence......Page 57
7 Physical readiness for learning......Page 61
8 The musical impulse and learning......Page 65
9 How we store and retrieve information using three memory systems......Page 69
Review of Section One......Page 75
Section Two: Creating a positive learning attitude and an achievement culture Memory map of Section Two......Page 76
Preview of Section Two......Page 78
1 The barrier between potential and achievement......Page 80
2 How feedback shapes performance......Page 86
3 The secrets of motivating through goals and targets......Page 92
4 The influence of teacher talk......Page 97
5 How to build and maintain positive self-belief in your learning community......Page 102
6 Questioning strategies for teachers......Page 117
7 How to start learning positively and stay positive......Page 123
Review of Section Two......Page 128
Section Three: The strategies to accelerate learning in the classroom Memory map of Section Three......Page 130
Preview of Section Three......Page 132
1 Connecting the learning......Page 134
2 Providing the Big Picture......Page 137
3 Specifying outcomes......Page 142
4 Input via VAK......Page 146
5 Activating through multiple intelligences (7 plus 1)......Page 153
6 Demonstrating the new understanding......Page 191
7 Review and recall for retention......Page 200
8 17 ways to integrate accelerated learning in the classroom into your school......Page 210
Review of Section Three......Page 219
Section Four: Resources and contacts for accelerated learning in the classroom Preview of Section Four......Page 220
Preview of Section Four......Page 222
1 Templates for accelerated learning across the curriculum......Page 224
2 The great and the good: peripherals for classrooms......Page 234
3 Music to aid learning......Page 236
4 Contact list of organizations......Page 240
B......Page 243
N......Page 244
V......Page 245
6 References......Page 246
Acknowledgements......Page 253
E......Page 254
M......Page 255
S......Page 256
W......Page 257