The Learning Skills Cycle

A Way to Rethink Education Reform

By (author) William R. Klemm

Publication date:

01 March 2017

Length of book:

194 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475833218

This book's ideas demonstrate how students are not adequately taught the learning skills necessary for superior academic achievement. The major reason schools are failing is that there is less emphasis on teaching students how to learn, the focus is on what to learn instead. This book provides teachers and parents with many concepts and tactics that they can use to teach children how to learn more efficiently and effectively. This book identifies and explains those skills and frames them as interacting in a mutually interacting and reinforcing cycle that I call the Learning Skills Cycle.

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Educational Reform: Why It Fails
Chapter 2: The Big Picture
Chapter 3: The Learning Skills Cycle
Chapter 4: Motivation/Grit
Chapter 5: Attentiveness
Chapter 6: Organization
Chapter 7: Understanding/Synthesis
Chapter 8: Memory
Chapter 9: Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving/Creativity
Epilogue
About the Author

Dr. Klemm provides teachers and students alike with a well-researched and solidly-documented resource that not only shines light on many popular misconceptions in the science of teaching and learning, but also gives profound insights into how true learning occurs and how a teacher or parent can help their struggling students transform into the confident achievers that they want to be.