Getting to Got It! Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn

Name: Getting to Got It! Helping Struggling Students Learn How to Learn
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ISBN: 9781416606086

ISBN-10: 1416606084

ISBN-13: 9781416606086

Edition: 2007

Authors: Betty K. Garner

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It's one of the great mysteries of teaching: Why do some students ?get it? and some students don?t? In this book, Betty K. Garner focuses on why students struggle and what teachers can do to help them become self-directed learners. Difficulty reading, remembering, paying attention, or following directions are not the reasons students fail but symptoms of the true problem: underdeveloped cognitive structures?the mental processes necessary to connect new information with prior knowledge; organize information into patterns and relationships; formulate rules that make information processing automatic, fast, and predictable; and abstract generalizable principles that allow them to transfer and…

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List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.82" wide x 8.94" long x 0.42" tall
Weight: 0.572

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Cognitive Structures: What They Are and Why They Matter	p. 1
Recognition	p. 30
Memorization	p. 35
Conservation of Constancy	p. 46
Classification	p. 60
Spatial Orientation	p. 79
Temporal Orientation	p. 102
Metaphorical Thinking	p. 119
The Spiritual Dimensions of Learning	p. 132
Lesson Plan Model for Cognitive Engagement	p. 148
An Invitation to Become a Reflective Researcher	p. 152
Glossary	p. 158
Resources	p. 160
Index	p. 163
About the Author	p. 167
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