New Kinds Of Smart How The Science Of Learnable Intelligence Is Changing Education

Author : Lucas, Bill
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335236189
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Kinds Of Smart: Teaching Young People To Be Intelligent For Today'S World written by Lucas, Bill and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Kinds of Smart presents the most important of these changes to practising teachers and educators, and invites them to think about their implications for school.

Author : Bill Lucas
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335239927
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Kinds of Smart: Teaching Young People to Be Intelligent for Today's World written by Bill Lucas and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How people think about education depends on how they understand the notion of 'intelligence'. Teaching reflects assumptions about what kinds of mental qualities are worth having, and about the extent to which those qualities are fixed or malleable. As the idea of 'intelligence' changes, so should the aims and methods of education. It's time to bring intelligence into the real world. In the early 21st century our understanding of the smart mind is changing fast. The demands of society are now quite different from those when schools were first designed, so the kinds of smart necessary to craft a happy and fulfilling life have changed. As life becomes more complex, ambiguous and uncertain, so a different set of mental and emotional attitudes are needed to thrive. Meanwhile, researchers in the cognitive, affective and learning sciences are developing new models of the smart mind that make it clear that bodies, tools and social contacts are as much a part of intelligence as abstract problem-solving. New Kinds of Smart presents the most important of these changes to practising teachers and educators, and invites them to think about their implications for school. Each chapter illustrates the research behind one of the emerging 'new kinds of smart'; summarises the messages that this research has for practitioners; and presents practical examples, tools and templates that educators can use to weave this new strand of thinking into their work as teachers and their lives as learners.

Author : David Perkins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439105618
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsmarting IQ written by David Perkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the turn of the century, the idea that intellectual capacity is fixed has been generally accepted. But increasingly, psychologists, educators, and others have come to challenge this premise. Outsmarting IQ reveals how earlier discoveries about IQ, together with recent research, show that intelligence is not genetically fixed. Intelligence can be taught. David Perkins, renowned for his research on thinking, learning, and education, identifies three distinct kinds of intelligence: the fixed neurological intelligence linked to IQ tests; the specialized knowledge and experience that individuals acquire over time; and reflective intelligence, the ability to become aware of one's mental habits and transcend limited patterns of thinking. Although all of these forms of intelligence function simultaneously, it is reflective intelligence, Perkins shows, that affords the best opportunity to amplify human intellect. This is the kind of intelligence that helps us to make wise personal decisions, solve challenging technical problems, find creative ideas, and learn complex topics in mathematics, the sciences, management, and other areas. It is the kind of intelligence most needed in an increasingly competitive and complicated world. Using his own pathbreaking research at Harvard and a rich array of other sources, Perkins paints a compelling picture of the skills and attitudes underlying learnable intelligence. He identifies typical pitfalls in multiple perspectives, and neglecting evidence. He reveals the underlying mechanisms of intelligent behavior. And he explores new frontiers in the development of intelligence in education, business, and other settings. This book will be of interest to people who have a personal or professional stake in increasing their intellectual skills, to those who look toward better education and a more thoughtful society, and not least to those who follow today's heated debates about the nature of intelligence.

Author : Day, Christopher
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 033524243X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Successful School Leadership: Linking With Learning And Achievement written by Day, Christopher and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature of successful school leadership - what is it, what does it look like in practice and what are the consequences for schools and pupils. As well as providing a contemporary overview of international research and thinking about successful school leadership, it identifies similar and distinguishing features of successful leadership in different sectors; between heads of different experience; and between schools in different socio-economic circumstances. It introduces the notions of 'layered leadership' and 'progressive trust' as key features of successful leadership. Additionally it discusses issues of sustainability and resilience in successful school leadership. Finally it considers how successful school leadership connects to pupil success, exploring the leadership strategies used by successful heads in a range of primary and secondary schools whose pupil attainment results had improved over a three year period during their headship.

Author : Mandy Swann
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335242138
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating Learning without Limits written by Mandy Swann and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of how one primary school community worked to build a learning environment that is inclusive, humane and enabling for everybody, a place free from the damaging effects of fixed ability thinking and practices. Drawing on compelling accounts of everyday life in the school, it describes how, in just a few years, the school (once in special measures) grew into a thriving community, with distinctive views of learning, curriculum and pedagogy, monitoring and accountability that found expression in every aspect of school life. The work of the school community was guided by the findings of a previous project, 'Learning without Limits' (Hart, Dixon, Drummond and McIntyre 2004), an empirical study of the classroom practice of individual teachers who had rejected the concept of fixed ability. 'Creating Learning without Limits' explores what becomes possible when the same ideas and principles are used creatively to guide and inspire whole school improvement. This book is not simply a celebration of the success of the school; it engages with the struggles and difficulties encountered by the staff as they set about learning to reshape pedagogy and curriculum by reference to their shared values of inclusion, social justice and human educability. It gives a detailed analysis of how the headteacher harnessed the power of collective action. The insights generated by this study have enduring relevance and applicability to people in other contexts - for staff groups craving for more equitable school improvement; for individual teachers wondering how best to foster children's learning capacity; for school leaders and teacher educators who find their values increasingly compromised. "'Creating Learning without Limits' takes on one of the most important issues in education today... This is a must-read for educators, policy makers and parents alike." Jo Boaler, Professor of Mathematics Education, Stanford University, California. Formerly a teacher and researcher at the Universities of London and Sussex. "This will undoubtedly turn out to be amongst the most important educational books of the decade...If you want to know why 'the standards agenda' must inevitably fail and what we might do instead, read this book." Professor Michael Fielding, Institute of Education, University of London, UK "This is an inspiring and reviving book." Anne Watson, Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Oxford, UK "This book provides a grounded demonstration of the importance of educational principles, the most important of which is the understanding that each child's potential for learning is limitless... I urge you to let it influence your thinking too!" Professor Andrew Pollard, Institute of Education, University of London, UK "The book deserves a really wide readership." Professor Clyde Chitty, Institute of Education, University of London, UK "This book is slim in size but hefty in significance." Barry Hymer, Professor of Psychology in Education, Education Faculty, University of Cumbria, UK "A classic for our time, it should be read by all who seek approaches to teaching and learning that are free from externally imposed views of ability and potential.” Professor Lani Florian, School of Education, University of Aberdeen, UK "This book could be the catalyst for the educational change that we are all praying for." Julie Lilly, Head Teacher, UK

Author : Guy Claxton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000400409
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Teaching written by Guy Claxton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s time for the educational slugfest to stop. ‘Traditional’ and ‘progressive’ education are both caricatures, and bashing cartoon images of each other is unprofitable and unedifying. The search for a new model of education – one that is genuinely empowering for all young people – is serious and necessary. Some good progress has already been made, but teachers and school leaders are being held back by specious beliefs, false oppositions and the limited thinking of orthodoxy. Drawing on recent experience in England, North America and Australasia, but applicable round the world, The Future of Teaching clears away this logjam of bad science and slack thinking and frees up the stream of much-needed innovation. This timely book aims to banish arguments based on false claims about the brain and poor understanding of cognitive science, reclaim the nuanced middle ground of teaching that develops both rigorous knowledge and ‘character’, and lay the foundations for a 21st-century education worthy of the name.

Author : Jeroen J.H. Dekker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317238281
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping the History of Education? written by Jeroen J.H. Dekker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1961 the Centre for the Study of the History of Education at Ghent University, Belgium published the first issue of the multilingual journal Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education. This book celebrates its fiftieth volume. In fourteen contributions written by different generations of historians of education, it demonstrates that in an era where the history of education at university level is at risk, both the journal and the discipline are pulsing, and alive and kicking. Was the journal a trendsetter or a follower, and which position did it take with respect to the International Standing Conference for the History of Education? These are questions addressed in the first section of this book. In the second section, a number of articles show national and transnational developments of the history of education. In their diversity, they make clear how the national and the transnational together characterize the discipline. They show why journals in this domain should stimulate the development of broader concepts and theories in order to put national and regional cases in a broader scientific context and to make them attractive for international readership. In the last section authors turn their minds to the future of the history of education. They write about the shaping of new trends and about moving beyond borders, focusing on, among other things, the challenge of neurosciences and of digital humanities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Paedagogica Historica.

Author : Julian White
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 152978686X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Teaching written by Julian White and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2022-03-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you are training to teach in primary or secondary schools, or stepping into the classroom as a qualified teacher, this book is your smart guide to informed classroom practice. It offers guidance on developing essential teaching skills, drawn from robust research findings and real-life examples, with reference to the Core Content Framework throughout. Each chapter offers strategies for success that are quickly applicable and can save time as you enhance and improve your teaching practice. Key topics include: · Establishing positive behaviour in your classroom · Structuring effective lessons for rapid learning · Adapting your teaching to meet individual needs · Using assessment to fine tune your teaching and enhance the learning · What to expect after your teacher training Julian White is Programme lead for the PGCE Secondary in Secondary English at Bradford College.

Author : Camila Devis-Rozental
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000883280
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Student Wellbeing Toolkit written by Camila Devis-Rozental and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Student Wellbeing Toolkit puts wellbeing at the centre of your journey into university and beyond. By encouraging self-efficacy and a focus on the things you can control, it provides clear guidance to enhance wellbeing and opportunities for self-reflection that help develop self-awareness and prosocial skills for life. Offering an accessible toolkit of strategies, activities and tips this fantastic, accessible resource considerers wellbeing within six main areas: Physical wellbeing Socio-emotional wellbeing Intellectual wellbeing Environmental wellbeing Occupational wellbeing Financial wellbeing Drawing on research-evidenced theories around positive psychology, theories of learning, motivation and self-development, the book explores what, how and why these areas are key to our wellbeing and the rationale for taking them into account to enable you to flourish and thrive at university.

Author : Peter A. Barnard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475815360
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From School Delusion to Design written by Peter A. Barnard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how school organization by age (grade) alone, sets schools on a factory course that is harmful and ultimately self-defeating to all involved and to ecology. It returns us to three systems thinking concepts; purpose, measures, and method.