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A Mind at a Time: How Every Child Can Succeed - Softcover

Levine, Melvin D.

 
9780743239257: A Mind at a Time: How Every Child Can Succeed
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0743239253 ISBN 13: 9780743239257
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

"Different minds learn differently", writes Dr Mel Levine. And that's a problem for many children, because most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. In this text he shows parents and others who care for children how to identify these individual learning patterns. He explains how parents and teachers can encourage a child's strengths and bypass the child's weaknesses. This type of teaching produces satisfaction and achievement instead of frustration and failure. Different brains are differently wired with eight fundamental systems of learning that draw on a variety of neurodevelopmental capacities. Certain students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all eight. Dr Levine urges that we must begin to pay more attention to individual learning styles, to individual minds - so that we can maximize our children's learning potential.

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About the Author

DR MEL LEVINE is a professor of paediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School and the director of the university's Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning. He is the co-founder and co-chair of All Kinds of Minds, a non-profit institute that develops products and programmes to help parents, teachers, clinicians and children address differences in learning. He is a Rhodes scholar and graduate of Harvard Medical School.

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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0743239253
ISBN 13 
9780743239257
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320