Why Don’t Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom Audiobook (Free)

Kids are naturally curious, but when it involves school it seems like their thoughts are turned off. Exactly why is it they can keep in mind the smallest details from a common television programs, yet miss the most apparent questions on the history test?

Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research within the natural and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom educators. This book will help teachers improve their about LET’S Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Queries about How your brain Works and What THIS MEANS for the Class room practice by explaining the way they and their learners think and learn-revealing the need for story, emotion, memory, context, and schedule in building understanding and creating long lasting learning experiences.

In this discovery reserve, Willingham has distilled his understanding of cognitive research into a set of nine principles that are easy to understand and have clear applications for the class room. Some examples of his unexpected findings are:

-‘Learning styles’ don’t exist. The procedures by which different children think and find out are more identical than different.

-Intelligence is malleable. Cleverness contributes to school performance and kids do differ, but cleverness can be elevated through sustained hard work.

-You cannot develop ‘thinking skills’ in the absence of information. We encourage college students to think critically, not only memorize details. However, thinking abilities rely on factual understanding for their procedure.

Why Don’t College students Like College is a basic primer for each teacher who wants to understand how their brains and their learners’ brains function and how that knowledge can help them hone their teaching skills.