Mediated Learning Teaching, Tasks, and Tools to Unlock Cognitive Potential [Paperback]

Features an expanded discussion of mediated learning and includes case studies, reflective activities for the reader, and in-depth coverage of metacognition, metalearning, metateaching, and metatasking.Features an expanded discussion of mediated learning and includes case studies, reflective activities for the reader, and in-depth coverage of metacognition, metalearning, metateaching, and metatasking. Teachers are often told to improve students' problem-solving abilities, but this is a book that explains HOW a teacher can go about that task. The authors teach the practitioner how to recognize dysfunctions in cognition, and provide strategies for helping students become independent learners. A practical primer par excellence for teachers who want to implement the principles of Reuven Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Experience. A multitude of easy-to-implement suggestions for the use of Mediated Learning empowers teachers to transform even the most challenged students into more effective thinkers and learners. Offers a host of important intervention techniques to increase student motivation and improve problem-solving skills, and is a recommended pick for any college-level teaching or education collection. The inclusion of worksheets makes for a practical resource, offering reproducible fill-in checkpoints for success. Foreword by Reuven Feuerstein
Preface
Acknowledgments
Publisher's Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. Metalearning: Structural Cognitive Modifiability
1. Unlocking Cognitive Potential
Part II. Metateaching: Mediated Learning Experience
2. Intentionality and Reciprocity
3. Meaning
4. Transcendence
5. Competence
6. Self-Regulation and Control of Behavior
7. Sharing
8. Individuation
9. Goal Planning
10. Challenge
11. Self-Change
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