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The Accelerated Trainer - Lex McKee
The Accelerated Trainer: Using Accelerated Learning Techniques to Revolutionize Your Training (Hardcover)
Opens with the premise that both the learner and the trainer need to overcome any hangups and abandon any psychological baggage before they start. From there, the author goes on to cover the entire training process, from planning and preparation, through anticipation and delivery, to action-planning and follow-up. |
Building Learning Power - Guy Claxton
An excellent introduction to the principles underlying Guy Claxton's work and how to put them into practice. I began highlighting the key insights and gave up when I found I was highlighting everything. Putting the book's principles into practice has transformed my teaching and the approach of my class and school. It's great to take some of the focus off content and put it onto learning skills. It's also great to pause the relentless focus on quality of teaching and take a look at what and how and why children are learning. PS SATs results went up.
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Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind - Guy Claxton
The human brain will do a number of unusual, interesting and important things - if given time. As described in this book, there is evidence from cognitive science and elsewhere that it will learn patterns of a degree of subtlety which normal, purposeful, busy consciousness cannot even see, let alone master; it will make sense out of hazy, ill-defined situations which leave everyday rationality flummoxed; it will get to the bottom of personal, emotional issues much more successfully than the questing intellect; it will detect and respond to meaning - in poetry, for example - that cannot be articulated; and it will sometimes come up with solutions to complicated predicaments that are wise rather than merely clever. The book explores these slower ways of knowing and explains how we could, or should, use them more often and more effectively. |
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