I Learn From Children

Author : Caroline Pratt
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192157
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Learn from Children written by Caroline Pratt and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of an innovative American educator and the remarkable school she built—“a lucid presentation of what progressive education can accomplish” (The New York Times). Over a century ago, American educator Caroline Pratt created an innovative school that fosters creativity and independent thought by asking the provocative question: “Was it unreasonable to try to fit the school to the child, rather than . . . the child to the school?” A strong-willed small-town schoolteacher who ran a one-room schoolhouse by the time she was seventeen, Pratt came to viscerally reject the teaching methods of her day, which often featured a long-winded teacher at the front of the room and rows of miserable children sitting on benches nailed to the floor. In this “persuasive presentation of progressive education,” Pratt recounts how she founded what is now the dynamic City and Country School in New York City, invented the “unit blocks” that have become a staple in classrooms around the globe, and played an important role in reimagining preschool and primary-school education in ways that are essential for the tumultuously creative time we live in today (Kirkus Reviews).

Author : Caroline Pratt
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060972738
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Learn from Children written by Caroline Pratt and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts how she developed an alternative approach to teaching children that emphasizes firsthand experience

Author : Gail Hugman
Publisher : The Endless Bookcase Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908941952
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Things to Learn Before You’re 10 written by Gail Hugman and published by The Endless Bookcase Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-29 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘100 Things to Learn before you’re 10’ is an educational book to help parents. Drawing on 40 years teaching experience, it explains why every child would benefit from the little extra help it provides during their formation years. This book is packed with examples, activities, insights and stories. It helps show you how to make sure your children learn the skills they need to get the most out of school and life. Give your child what they really need so that they become happier, more confident and self assured as they learn. They will grow to be well rounded adults! It is during the first 12 years after birth that each life develops the framework for its future. Parents who are juggling the demands of modern life and work, while they are raising their children ask many questions. They may often feel their children ‘could do better’ and become very concerned if a child’s school report highlights this. However, many parents aren’t confident with changing children’s attitudes, what to teach or how to really motivate and encourage them. Especially if the children have ‘switched off’ and no longer respond to what their parents say. This book addresses these issues and questions and looks at the reasons why so many children underperform at school and what can be done about aligning them at core, so that they stay connected to the positive influences that are in them at birth. It puts forward tried and tested lessons, tools and strategies that have been developed during forty years of teaching experience and have been repeatedly proven effective with children.

Author : John Holt
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0786746904
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Children Learn written by John Holt and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2009-04-20 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the preface by Deborah Meier: "We have a long way to go to make John Holt's dream available to all children. But his books make it possible and easier for many of us to join him in the journey." In this enduring classic, rich with deep, original insight into the nature of early learning, John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In his delightful book he observes how children actually learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how, as adults, we can best encourage these natural abilities in our children.

Author : Dorothy Cohen
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Learning Child written by Dorothy Cohen and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1988-04-12 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a classic in developmental psychology, The Learning Child is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1972, if not more so. Drawing on the findings of psychologists like Piaget, and on the author's own experiences teaching child development at New York’s Bank Street College, Cohen explores the crucial links between learning and the successive stages of childhood, and shows parents and teachers how to turn a child’s natural instinct for inquiry into a talent for learning that will last a lifetime. “If American parents will read and listen to Dr. Cohen’s sensible, wise analysis of the way young children learn, my faith in human beings will be restored! . . . It was refreshing and reassuring to read a book by someone who approaches childhood with love and profound wisdom.” —Eda LeShan, author of When Your Child Drives You Crazy

Author : John Caldwell Holt
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Children Learn written by John Caldwell Holt and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the natural learning processes of children at the pre-school and primary grade level and describes the ways in which formal education damages and impedes the child's independent ability to learn.

Author : Anita Silvey
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596433957
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything I Need to Know I Learned from a Children's Book written by Anita Silvey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What children's book changed the way you see the world?" Anita Silvey asked this question to more than one hundred of our most respected and admired leaders in society, and she learned about the books that shaped financiers, actors, singers, athletes, activists, artists, comic book creators, novelists, illustrators, teachers... The lessons they recall are inspiring, instructive, and illuminating. And the books they remember resonate as influential reading choices for families. EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED FROM A CHILDREN'S BOOK--with its full color excerpts of beloved children's books, is a treasury and a guide: a collection of fascinating essays and THE gift book of the year for families.

Author : John Holt
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN 13 : 0738220094
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Children Learn (50th anniversary edition) written by John Holt and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enduring classic of educational thought offers teachers and parents deep, original insight into the nature of early learning. John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In this delightful yet profound book, he looks at how we learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how we can nurture and encourage these natural abilities in our children.

Author : Barbara Rogoff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195344615
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Learning Together written by Barbara Rogoff and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances the theoretical account that Barbara Rogoff presented in her highly acclaimed book, Apprenticeship in Thinking. Here, Rogoff collaborates with two master teachers from an innovative school in Salt Lake City, Utah, to examine how students, parents, and teachers learn by being engaged together in a community of learners. Building on observations by participants in this school, this book reveals how children and adults learn through participation in activities of mutual interest. The insights will speak to all those interested in how people learn collaboratively and how schools can improve.

Author : Cedric Cullingford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135382131
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Children Learn to Read and How to Help Them written by Cedric Cullingford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introductory guide to the theoretical and practical aspects of the development of reading skills. The book looks at the success or failure of various techniques and provides underpinning theory.