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Differentiation Through Learning Styles and Memory
Second Edition
- Marilee Sprenger - Aurora University, IL
June 2008 | 184 pages | Corwin
Help students lead with their strengths and gain a deeper understanding of concepts!
This updated edition of the bestseller demonstrates how to optimize learning by using strategies that address students' social/emotional, cognitive, and physical learning needs. The second edition offers current research on memory, graphic organizers, and new charts to help implement differentiated strategies, and also covers:
How the brain processes, stores, and retains information
Pre-assessment strategies for each learning style
"Reflect and Connect" questions to help teachers evaluate their current classroom practice
Text boxes that highlight contents of each chapter
Learning and memory tips for students
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Prologue
1. Environments for Learning
2. Getting to Know Your Students: Learning Strengths
3. A Matter of Memory: Gaining a Better Understanding of How Students Remember
4. Differentiating Content, Process, and Product for the Visual Learner
5. Differentiating Content, Process, and Product for the Auditory Learner
6. Differentiating Content, Process, and Product for the Kinesthetic Learner
7. Putting It All Together: Memory C.R.E.E.P.S. In!
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
"This is the kind of book that needs to be read and re-read. There’s so much usable information in it. A great resource for all teachers."
Reisterstown Elementary School, MD
"Provides many useful and helpful techniques that can immediately be implemented to improve learning in any classroom setting."
“The stories and classroom situations throughout the book really helped me visualize how all of this can be put to use. The author definitely practices what she preaches, whether she is teaching in a classroom or teaching through the written word.”
Marcus-Meriden-Cleghorn Elementary School, Marcus and Cleghorn, IA