learning strategies

Presents surveys, questionnaires, and checklists designed to help teachers identify their students' strengths and includes activities to help build left-brain, right-brain, and middle-brain thinking skills.

Examines ideas and strategies K-12 teachers can use to promote innovation through critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration, and technology integration, while building on mastery of core content.

Presents a collection of teaching methods designed to strengthen such skills as reading, writing, spelling, math, note taking, and listening; and includes case studies from actual strength-based assessments and fifty specific strength-based interventions.

Presents a theoretical understanding of learning styles, focusing on at-risk learners and explaining why traditional teaching methods fail to meet their educational needs.

Offers advice to parents on how to help their children overcome learning problems, explaining how to evaluate a child's pattern of learning and identify strengths and weaknesses, and describing strategies for combating underachievement.

Offers advice to teachers on how to identify and address underlying impediments to learning and help students enhance their learning capabilities through the development of comparative thinking cognitive structures.

Explains the theory of multiple intelligences to young people, describing each of the eight intelligences, and offering advice on how to capitalize on personal strengths. Includes quizzes, fun facts, and resources.