Models of Learning, Tools for Teaching

Review of the previous edition: "This powerful book makes many of its points through the use of case studies and examples. Rarely, if ever, has discussion of so wide a variety of approaches to learning been gathered together in a single volume." British Journal of Educational TechnologyThe new edition of this bestselling text provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to an array of models of teaching and learning.Written in a clear, engaging and accessible style, the authors offer a wide range of teaching strategies that have been developed, polished and studied over the last thirty years. Rather than being formulas to be followed word-for-word, each model draws teachers into the study of how students learn, promoting reflective action research in the classroom.Some of the models have been proven not only to accelerate learning, but also to allow pupils to engage in alternative modes of inquiry, which have been almost impossible to generate through traditional chalk-and-talk teaching.Updated features include: A foreword by Estelle Morris A new chapter on teaching adolescents with disabilities to read A wealth of new scenarios and examples with clear guidelines for implementation A new synectics study New research and illustrations A revised Picture Word Inductive Model Revisions and updates to ten chapters Updated appendix on Peer Coaching Guides Models of Learning, Tools for Teaching is an essential text for trainee teachers, practitioners, advisors, inspectors and teacher educators.

Table of Contents:
PART 1: ORIENTATION CHAPTER ONE Learning How to Learn: The (Central?) Goal of Education CHAPTER TWO Hempshill Hall School PART 2: LEARNING TO PROCESS INFORMATION CHAPTER THREE Learning to Think Inductively CHAPTER FOUR Learning to Explore Concepts CHAPTER FIVE Learning to Think Metaphorically with Synectics CHAPTER SIX Learning to Read and Write with the Picture/ Word InductiveModel CHAPTER SEVEN Learning to Learn Through Cooperative Inquiry CHAPTER EIGHT Building Multidimensional Curriculums for Learning Disabled and Literacy-Challenged Secondary School Students PART 3: LEARNING TO STUDY ONESELF CHAPTER NINE Learning through Counselling CHAPTER TEN Learning to Study Values PART 4: SOURCES OF DEVELOPED MODELS OF LEARNING CHAPTER ELEVEN An Inquiry into Learning and Teaching CHAPTER TWELVE Sources – Families of Models of Learning and Teaching CHAPTER THIRTEEN The conditions of learning: integrating models of learning and teaching PART 5:THE LEADING EDGE CHAPTER FOURTEEN Learning through Simulations CHAPTER FIFTEEN Literacy in The Early Years: A Report CODA How do we learn new models of learning? LITERATURE APPENDIX

About the Author :
David Hopkins is the inaugural HSBC Chair in International Leadership, International arm of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and the Leadership Centre at the Institute of Education, University of London. Between 2002 and 2005 he served three Secretary of States as the Chief Adviser on School Standards at the Department for Education and Skills. Previously, he was Chair of the Leicester City Partnership Board and Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Nottingham. David is also an International Mountain Guide who still climbs regularly in the Alps and Himalayas. He has previously outlined his views on teaching quality, school improvement and large scale reform in Hopkins D. (2001) School Improvement for Real, Routledge / Falmer and Hopkins D (2007) Every School a Great School, Open University Press.