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Kerbey, Laura – Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2023
During Laura Kerbey's time teaching autistic children, she had a sudden realisation that those with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) are children like no other! None of her tried and tested autism strategies would work to help them focus or learn and most of her time was spent wondering, "what am I doing wrong?" If you feel the same,…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Learning Motivation, Learning Processes, Student Attitudes
Posey, Allison – ASCD, 2018
Research on the brain has shown that emotion plays a key role in learning, but how can educators apply that research in their day-to-day interactions with students? What are some teaching strategies that take advantage of what we know about the brain? "Engage the Brain" answers these questions with easy-to-understand explanations of the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Psychological Patterns, Brain, Neurology
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Woods, Donald R. – Chemical Engineering Education (CEE), 1998
Students' needs and research on learning should inform teaching practices. Makes suggestions for improving instruction such as using students as ombudspersons to provide feedback on class concerns, focusing on process skills, and incorporating problem-based learning into the curriculum. Also includes examples of successful programs and summaries…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Higher Education, Instructional Improvement, Learning Motivation
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Walsh, Foster – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2003
In this article, the author compares teaching and learning to the maintenance of an old car that leaks oil and must constantly be "topped up." Learning is a complex process of taking in and leaking out. The retention of new information is constantly under assault by an array of personal and contextual factors, such as a lack of interest, fatigue,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Attention Control, Learning Motivation
Kolcaba, Raymond F. – Curriculum Review, 1980
The author categorizes the stages and skills of independent inquiry: the motivation to inquire; skills essential to setting up an inquiry; and modes of concluding an inquiry or verifying a hypothesis. He draws curriculum implications for developing independent learners. (SJL)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Independent Study, Inquiry, Learning Motivation
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Panitz, Theodore – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1999
Cooperative learning improves students' learning motivation in a diverse college student population by creating a favorable disposition toward the learning experience through personal relevance and choice; creating an understanding that learners are effective in learning something they value; and creating challenging, thoughtful learning…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Lipton, Laura; Hubble, Deborah – 1997
Designed for teachers of kindergarten through grade 6, this book contains practical and innovative ideas on fostering literacy generated from discussions with teachers from the United States and Canada, visits to their classrooms, and observations of their interactions with students. The book addresses all levels of learner-centered literacy…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education
George, John; Dale, Kathy – 1990
Collaborative learning strategies can improve the learning of subject matter in content area classrooms, but they are only one aspect among many that influence how much learning will take place in a class period. The Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) is an effective teaching/learning strategy to use with content area material. Much of the…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Content Area Reading, Content Area Writing, Cooperative Learning
Davis, Harry O. – 1992
Conjoint retention and confluency are examined as psychological and pedagogical principles for use in instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL) when maps are used as facilitators. The theory of conjoint retention states that dual encoding occurs when a person hears or reads a narrative while simultaneously viewing a map containing…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Humanistic Education
Ploetz, Greta – 1999
This course introduces students enrolled in an adult high school diploma program to a set of learning strategies that they can use in any further education or training, in job and career training, and in personal learning. The course provides the basis for lifelong learning. The course contains nine lessons, each of which consists of stories,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Cognitive Style, Course Content
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Steffens, Henry – History Teacher, 1989
Reviews the use of the collaborative learning process in a seventeenth-century intellectual history seminar. Utilizing reader response, peer critiques, small writing groups, and peer tutoring, students became active participants in the learning process and assumed more responsibility for the course material. Includes a complete syllabus and…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Higher Education
Hittleman, Carol G.; Hittleman, Daniel R. – 1996
This paper focuses on how social studies content and concepts can be explored through literature in which grandparents and grandchildren interact. The paper emphasizes that, through the intergenerational relationship, children can encounter and explore life in general, increasing their understanding of their own portion of the world and of…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Family Influence, Family Role, Grandchildren
Cristiano, Marilyn J. – 1993
Contract learning is an alternative way of structuring a learning experience. Instead of specifying how a body of content will be transmitted (content plan), it specifies how a body of content will be acquired by the learner (process plan). Students identify problems or issues that are real for them and relevant to the course at hand, state…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines, Higher Education
Harnisch, Henriette, Ed.; Swanton, Pauline, Ed. – CILT, the National Centre for Languages, 2004
"Adults Learning Languages" is aimed at those responsible for teaching languages across AE, FE and HE. In the much-changed world of post-19 languages, new funding and inspection regimes with revised needs for quality assurance are challenging practitioners to adapt and review approaches. This book offers teachers of languages to adults tools to…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Quality Control