Strategies for Learning: Empowering Students for Success, Grades 9-12 [Paperback]

These explicit, reiterative strategies improve motivation, help struggling students learn how to learn, and provide them with an effective skill set for all content areas.These explicit, reiterative strategies improve motivation, help struggling students learn how to learn, and provide them with an effective skill set for all content areas. A gate barring success often needs but the right key. This book provides keys to unlock the learning?for those who always possessed the ability to learn. The knowledge, instinct, dedication, and passion of Karen Rooney gives a special clarity and power to her instructional recommendations. I wish my teachers had this book when I was in school. A practical reference, this book adds to teachers' toolboxes of useful learning strategies. All students, whether or not they have learning disabilities, benefit from practicing how to learn! Easy-to-implement strategies to successfully develop and maximize learning for all students. Contains proven, practical, and explicit strategies that secondary students with learning disabilities can use to become independent and motivated learners. Wedding years of clinical experience with the most up-to-date research, Rooney provides teachers with evidence-based techniques they can use with their most difficult-to-teach students. Having used Rooney's learning strategies for many years, I can affirm their high-yield effectiveness. Best of all, students enjoy this 'take charge' approach to their own learning. The strategies are logical, concise, and excellent for students to achieve improved understanding, retention, and?memory retrieval for concepts. This book is a must for teachers who want to help their students become independent, self-confident, and successful learners. Karen Rooney's study techniques had a very profound impact on my academic performance. As a ninth- and tentl38