Why Don't Students Like School?
A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
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Paul Costanzo
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Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. Why is it that they can remember the smallest details from their favorite television programs, yet miss the most obvious questions on their history test? Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom teachers. This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn - revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning experiences.
In this breakthrough book, Willingham has distilled his knowledge of cognitive science into a set of nine principles that are easy to understand and have clear applications for the classroom. Some examples of his surprising findings are:
- "Learning styles" don't exist. The processes by which different children think and learn are more similar than different.
- Intelligence is malleable. Intelligence contributes to school performance and children do differ, but intelligence can be increased through sustained hard work.
You cannot develop "thinking skills" in the absence of facts. We encourage students to think critically, not just memorize facts. However, thinking skills depend on factual knowledge for their operation. Why Don't Students Like School is a basic primer for every teacher who wants to know how their brains and their students' brains work and how that knowledge can help them hone their teaching skills.
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.
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- Kindle Customer
- 16-08-20
useful, common sense stuff
good book.
quite useful.
enjoyed it it it it it it it it it it.
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- Mr Ashley Bartlett
- 20-04-20
Should be mandatory for all teachers.
Fantastic, accessible books which should be mandatory teaching for all teachers. Read it then work smarter, not harder.
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- Laura
- 12-11-20
Outstanding book; monotonous narration.
I bought the book on Kindle after giving up after three chapters of the audiobook. I had to check the narration wasn’t simply a computerised voice; it was tiresome to listen to and rather dangerous for driving. Such a confusing choice considering the content is focused on effective learning conditions....
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- Sean
- 05-11-19
Good book
Very thought provoking. Makes you really think about you can improve your teaching. Recommended.
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- Anon
- 20-09-15
A great challenge to hyped up learning trends
A lot of learning theory books tell you these key principles, yet no book I've read so far has looked at it from this perspective. It is insightful, practical, drills down to core principles, and really makes you think deeper about the common learning trends which now people misuse so badly. Highly recommended to any teacher, parent, instructional designer, and learning specialist.
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- Mr. M. G. Daniels
- 01-02-21
Must read for all teachers.
Must read for all teachers as goes into how people learn. For me best take home was people learn best when thinking about a problem.
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- Drew Peacock
- 05-04-16
Great Book
Very interesting book with some great information. For me, what let it down was the narrating. I just found the guy's voice to be a bit too monotonous.
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- Kindle Customer
- 28-08-20
Informative
Useful scientific overview of pedagogical ideas which can inform successful teaching practice. Would recommend to any teacher!
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- J. A. Croucher
- 30-04-18
Not really suitable for listening
Content sounds interesting but can’t locate online resources which would be quite an important part of the experience.
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- Tom D
- 28-11-18
dissappointing narration, very robotic
I would recommend buying the physical book over this audiobook. The narration made this a difficult listen for me. A very robotic voice, good annunciation but completely lacking any character, emotion or tone change. I'd be very surprised if the author approved this choice of narrators considering the content of the book. Many early parts of the book talked about why people switch off and become uninterested in a subject.. and this is exactly what happens when you listen to a robot reading out text. in addition, there are some visuals which I didn't have to hand when listen to this (think they're provided for free via a web page but was listening on a device without internet access).
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