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Understanding How Students Learn
To improve teaching, school leaders must understand how students learn. The authors explore key psychological dimensions of learners and explain how these dimensions can be incorporated into more effective teaching strategies. This research-based handbook provides guiding principles that school leaders can use to help their teachers develop a learner-centered approach to instruction that enables all students to learn at high levels and do well on common measures of academic achievement. Concepts explored in-depth include:
- Learner growth and development
- Acquiring knowledge and understanding
- Cultivating learner motivation
- Strategic teaching and regulating learning
- The power of shared learning
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781412908863
- Published By: Corwin
- Series: Leadership for Learning Series
- Year: 2005
- Page Count: 168
- Publication date: March 26, 2014