This book will help adults empower students to become independent learners. The topic of study skills often targets mechanics of academic learning and focuses on areas such as improving homework completion and time management. This book goes beyond these mechanics by addressing underlying psychological factors that influence learning. We expand the goals of improving study skills from simply helping students get better grades in school to helping them become independent learners who know how to learn effectively in any life situation. Adopting this expanded focus will enable adults to help students learn independently in academic and nonacademic areas throughout their school years into adulthood.
Algebra 1: Concepts and Skills provides a balanced equation for student success. This Student Edition helps students work toward an understandable solution with standardized test preparation in every lesson. The Concepts and Skills program is committed to meeting the needs of all learning levels by providing an accessible approach that helps prepare students for success in algebra. Built-in learning support helps students master concepts one at a time. The texts include visual learning strategies, easy-to-follow examples, and help notes for homework, vocabulary, and problem solving. Practice problems gradually increase in difficulty. Numerous exercises reinforce concepts and ensure that students are ready for assessment success.
Building on her groundbreaking work in "Writing Superheroes, Anne Dyson traces the influence of a wide-ranging set of "textual toys" from children's lives--church and hip-hop songs, rap music, movies, TV, traditional jump-rope rhymes, the words of professional sports announcers and radio deejays--upon school learning and writing. Wonderfully rich portraits of five African American first-graders demonstrate how children's imaginative use of wider cultural symbols enriches their school learning."
What are the realities behind recent press reports suggesting that women students have taken over higher education, both outnumbering males and academically outperforming them? Does women's development during college diverge from the commonly accepted model of cognitive growth? Does pedagogy in higher education take into account their different ways of knowing? Are there still barriers to women's educational achievement?
Was Einstein Wrong? Quantum weirdness defies special relativity Also in this issue: • Nanotube Radios for Microbots • Fighting the TB Pandemic • A Concise Guide to Renewable Power • How Learning Preserves New Brain Cells • Detecting Secret Nuclear Tests
This book will help adults empower students to become independent learners. The topic of study skills often targets mechanics of academic learning and focuses on areas such as improving homework completion and time management. This book goes beyond these mechanics by addressing underlying psychological factors that influence learning. We expand the goals of improving study skills from simply helping students get better grades in school to helping them become independent learners who know how to learn effectively in any life situation. Adopting this expanded focus will enable adults to help students learn independently in academic and nonacademic areas throughout their school years into adulthood.
