learning

Describes the many different ways children get education all over the world.

Did you know the oldest U.S. school is nearly 400 years old? Learn this and more in School.

The study of human intellectual development is concerned with the structure of the brain's processes and how people take in, sort, and use information.

Discusses a number of research based learning and teaching methods for teachers.

"Baby bear is exploring on his own. When a delicious red fruit from the forest falls and knocks him on his head - Tok! - he goes in search of more, meeting other creatures on his way up to the top: Caterpillar, Squirrel, Bees. Then he finds the biggest red fruit of all, and leeaaps to grab it....landing in his mother's arms"--Provided by publisher.

"This playbook is about how learning works. How do students learn and how can we leverage this knowledge into great learning, through the design of our classrooms, learning experiences, and tasks? We want our students to effectively learn the content, skills, and understandings associated with the specific subject area of focus. From inferences in English Language Arts, deforestation in Environmental Science, perspective in Art, or spatial awareness in physical education, the range of topics and ideas is as diverse as the students in our classrooms. In addition, the content, skills, and understandings associated with each content area are not isolated from social, emotional, affective, and language learning. The characterization of learning as "reading, writing, and arithmetic" does not even come close to conceptualizing the highly complex, multidimensional, highly coveted outcome we strive for in our classrooms: flexible, durable, and useable learning"--.

"When a little boy can't seem to keep up with his friends, his new friend, Yeti, shows him a trick that makes all the difference"--Provided by publisher.

"In The Real Work--the term magicians use for the accumulated craft that makes for a great trick--Gopnik becomes a dedicated student of several masters of their craft: a classical painter, a boxer, a dancing instructor, a driving instructor, and others. Rejecting self-help bromides and bullet points, he nevertheless shows that the top people in any field share a set of common qualities and methods. For one, their mastery is always a process of breaking down and building up--of identifying and perfecting the small constituent parts of a skill and the combining them for an overall effect greater than the sum of those parts. For another, mastery almost always involves intentional imperfection--as in music, where vibrato, a way of not quite landing on the right note, carries maximum expressiveness"--Provided by publisher.

"In the pueblo of Palenque, hardly anybody knows how to read. Curious about the letters her older sister Gina receives from a young doctor each month--letters that she is sure contain promises of love--one young girl makes a decision that will change her life, and the lives of every child in the pueblo, forever. With the help of Se?or Velandia, the owner of the village shop, she will slowly unlock the letters of the alphabet and discover the magic of reading. And soon she will make a discovery that is more miraculous still--that letters are literally all around her"--Provided by the publisher.

Illustrates that learning happens whenever you have an open mind and an open heart.