How Students Really Learn: Instructional Strategies That Work [Hardcover]

Dr. Wilson captures her audience with a wealth of information with such a personal touch in how her creative activities compliment the research and give teachers and parents invaluable tools for learning. This book is like having a series of in-depth conversations with an educational expert.How Students Really Learn provides priceless information, tips and ideas for the alternative certification teacher&who missed out on the invaluable classes standard classroom teachers take in college. I recommend all alternative certification teachers to add this book to their personal library and reread it often for inspiration and motivation!How Students Really Learn has renewed my excitement for teaching! Packed with tips and a wide variety of teaching strategies, this book is a must-read for anyone in education. The staggering statistics from how children learn to differences in gender are mind blowing. Dr. Wilson has compiled an astounding amount of everyday household items that can be used in the classroom as tools for teaching and, most importantly, learning.Dr. Wilson does all the 'thinking out of the box' for you in this book. The book explains how every child's needs can easily be met. It gives an overabundant amount of ways to use everyday items as a manipulative for each subject. This easy-to-read book is tightly packed with useful information and suggestions that every teacher should know. How Students Really Learn will make every teacher take a step back, evaluate their teaching methods and ask themselves, 'Am I reaching every child's need?'This book focuses on improving instructional strategies to design and implement learning opportunities for children to promote long term learning.Recent studies show that the average student retention rate is 15 percent and that America spends over $14 billion dollars annually to reteach these students. To remedy this alarming trend, Dr. Linda Wilson provides instructional strategies to help students not only learn better but alsl³.