Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
by David Perkins
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New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the "whole game" David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the "whole game," rather than isolated pieces of a discipline. Perkins explains how learning academic subjects should be approached like show more learning baseball or any game, and he demonstrates this with seven principles for making learning whole: from making the game worth playing (emphasizing the importance of motivation to sustained learning), to working on the hard parts (the importance of thoughtful practice), to learning how to learn (developing self-managed learners). Vividly explains how to organize learning in ways that allow people to do important things with what they know Offers guidelines for transforming education to prepare our youth for success in a rapidly changing world Filled with real-world, illustrative examples of the seven principles At the end of each chapter, Perkins includes "Wonders of Learning," a summary of the key ideas. show lessTags
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Common Knowledge
- Dedication
- To my father, who taught me how to play baseball and much more; and to my mother, who taught me how to be stoic and much more. I never achieved excellence in either one, but the lessons were important anyway.
- First words
- Baseball for me was a triumph of mediocrity.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)The more we as individuals, our society, and its institutions take this challenge seriously and respond to it energetically and strategically, the more people will be ready to catch the changing rhythms of tomorrow.
- Blurbers
- Gardner, Howard; Mohr, Jayne H.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Berliner, David C.; Rock, Rod; Egan, Kieran (show all 8); Solomon, Gavriel; Jordan, Sheila
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- Genre
- Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 371.102 — Society, Government, and Culture Education Schools and their activities; special education Teachers; Teaching personnel; Professors, masters instructors Personal influence
- LCC
- LB1060 .P448 — Education Theory and practice of education Theory and practice of education Educational psychology
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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