Teaching the Whole Class / Edition 1

by Betty Lou Leaver

Overview

The author explains how to base teaching on an understanding of learning style differences, and how to attend to the needs of the individual while teaching for the needs of the whole class.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803966468
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/28/1997
Series:	Learning Strategies Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction
Dialogue with a Reader
Rationale for Teaching the Whole Class
Styles and Profiles
Failure to Learn
Diagnosing the Causes
In an Ideal World
Accommodating Students
In the Real World
Empowering Students
Reducing the Risk
Teaching the Whole Class - Sanely
Epilogue

Editorial Reviews

The latest edition of what has become a classic manual for teachers over the past decade. Explains that different students have different styles of learning, how to recognize the varieties, how to expand a teaching style so that no student or group of students is handicapped with someone else's way of learning, and how to help students expand their learning styles in case they run into a teacher who has not read the book. Revised from the 1994 edition. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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