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Advisory Centre for Education ACE Bulletin 120, Published by the
Guidance for parents exploring practical ways to help children learn effectively.
These include developing confidence and self-esteem; effective listening and questioning; creating an effective learning development: building a healthier brain for learning; and improving memory, recall and spelling. In two parts 1. Thinking About Thinking -reflections on how parents can support learning. 2. Learning About Learning - practical strategies for parents to use. Challenges parents to rethink some habits such as listening to a child, admitting you don't know, asking open questions, and praising more than criticising. Describes the kind of lifestyle at home that will lay the foundations for success at school. Sets out steps that lead to a positive and supportive relationship with one's son or daughter. Instructs on mind mapping, the structure of which resembles the way in which the brain makes associations and links between ideas. Not only does the speed of mind mapping avoid inhibiting creativity, but the process itself seems to assist with the generation of new ideas.
Further chapters deal with learning styles, multiple intelligences, solving problems, memory and recall, helping a child learn to spell and making lessons effective. The book developed out of Garry Burnett's teaching of the Learning to Learn programme in the Hull school he taught in - a course for children that helps them understand how they learn - and Kay Jarvis's course, Parents and Children Working Together, which she has run at schools in the Hull area for the last four years.
These include developing confidence and self-esteem; effective listening and questioning; creating an effective learning development: building a healthier brain for learning; and improving memory, recall and spelling. In two parts 1. Thinking About Thinking -reflections on how parents can support learning. 2. Learning About Learning - practical strategies for parents to use. Challenges parents to rethink some habits such as listening to a child, admitting you don't know, asking open questions, and praising more than criticising. Describes the kind of lifestyle at home that will lay the foundations for success at school. Sets out steps that lead to a positive and supportive relationship with one's son or daughter. Instructs on mind mapping, the structure of which resembles the way in which the brain makes associations and links between ideas. Not only does the speed of mind mapping avoid inhibiting creativity, but the process itself seems to assist with the generation of new ideas.
Further chapters deal with learning styles, multiple intelligences, solving problems, memory and recall, helping a child learn to spell and making lessons effective. The book developed out of Garry Burnett's teaching of the Learning to Learn programme in the Hull school he taught in - a course for children that helps them understand how they learn - and Kay Jarvis's course, Parents and Children Working Together, which she has run at schools in the Hull area for the last four years.
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