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Strategies for learning : empowering students for success, grades 9-12 / Karen J. Rooney.

Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin, 2010Description: xi, 146 p. ; 28 cmISBN: 9781412972864Subject(s): Learning disabled children -- Education (Secondary)

| Study skills -- Study and teaching (Secondary)

| Remedial teaching

Contents:

Part I. Vocabulary and Note Taking When Reading -- Part II. Note Taking When Listening -- Part III. Language Arts -- Part IV. Math and Foreign Language -- Part V. Test Taking -- Part VI. Organization, Time Management, and Solving Problems

Summary: Knowing how to learn and study is an important part of the learning process and can make the difference between failure and success in school. This book offers specific techniques that are research-proven to result in significantly improved classroom grades for all struggling students, including those with attention problems, learning disabilities, and underachievement issues. Strategies for Learning offers both general and special education secondary teachers a collection of field-tested learning strategies to help struggling students improve cross-curricular skills in areas that include vocabulary, reading, spelling, writing, math, word problems, grammar, foreign language, note taking, time management, and organization. Karen Rooney, Ph.D., draws on more than 25 years of practice to provide concrete, user-friendly strategies that help teachers to: Engage students in the learning process Teach a set of skills that are effective for all content areas Improve motivation, increase comprehension, and foster confidence Offer intense, explicit, and reiterative systems to help students "learn how to learn" Work with whole classes or individuals Without the need for time-intensive lesson planning, these strategies can be implemented immediately to help struggling students become independent, motivated, lifelong learners.

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Item type	Current location	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Course reserves
Libro	Biblioteca Universidad Europea del Atlántico Fondo General	No ficción	37.02 ROO str	Available		4878	Estrategias de aprendizaje de la especialidad de lenguas extranjeras - inglés

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Knowing how to learn and study is an important part of the learning process and can make the difference between failure and success in school. This book offers specific techniques that are research-proven to result in significantly improved classroom grades for all struggling students, including those with attention problems, learning disabilities, and underachievement issues.

Strategies for Learning offers both general and special education secondary teachers a collection of field-tested learning strategies to help struggling students improve cross-curricular skills in areas that include vocabulary, reading, spelling, writing, math, word problems, grammar, foreign language, note taking, time management, and organization. Karen Rooney, Ph.D., draws on more than 25 years of practice to provide concrete, user-friendly strategies that help teachers to:

Engage students in the learning process
Teach a set of skills that are effective for all content areas
Improve motivation, increase comprehension, and foster confidence
Offer intense, explicit, and reiterative systems to help students "learn how to learn"
Work with whole classes or individuals
Without the need for time-intensive lesson planning, these strategies can be implemented immediately to help struggling students become independent, motivated, lifelong learners.