The power of diversity : new ways of learning and teaching through learning styles /

• Prashnig, Barbara, 1949-

• Learning, Psychology of
• Effective teaching.

• Network Educational,

• 185539118X (pbk.)

• Originally published: Auckland, N.Z.: David Bateman, 1998.
• Bibliography: p. 329-332.
• Author's Note; Introduction and a Personal 'Thank You'; Preface by Gordon Dryden; Recommendations for Using this Book. CHAPTER 1 The State of the Art: 1.Learners - and endangered species; 2.Mission impossible - love of learning for everyone?; 3.Learn, teach and live is style; 4.A new success breed - lifelong learners in their own style. CHAPTER 2 Diversity is our Strength: 1.Getting to know yourself and others; 2.There is no one like me, no one like you - the joy of being different; 3.Left brain-right brain - get your head together; 4.Learning styles - genetics or conditioning?; 5.Do we need scientific evidence?; 6.Dr Ken Dunn - how to release your personal power.; CHAPTER 3 Learning Styles - A Quiet Revolution: 1.Old and new beliefs about learning and teaching; 2.Please, respect my individuality; 3.Paradigm shifts - signs of our times; 4.The new paradigm of teaching and learning; 5.School learning will never be the same; 6.Pioneers at work - from New Zealand to Sweden to the UK; 7.Mike Scaddan - a principal's view on learning styles; 8.Students, parents and teachers say it in style; 9.Implementing learning styles - an Action Plan.; CHAPTER 4 The LSA - A Revolutionary Instrument: 1.Discover your students' learning styles; 2.What is the Learning Style Analysis (LSA)?; 3.How the LSA works; 4.LSA Junior and Senior Versions; 5.Group profiles - a new tool for classroom teachers; 6.How to use results from the LSA; 7.Practical applications for better teaching; 8.Finding out what makes students tick. CHAPTER 5 Too Many Provocations?: 1.There are no learning disabilities - only teaching disabilities; 2.Underachievement - the unnecessary disease in our schools; 3.Learning styles of underachievers; 4.School is hell for touch-dominant/tactile students; 5.Dropout candidates - highly kinaesthetic students; 6.Misfits, slow learners and school failures; 7.'Gifted' students have significantly different learning styles; 8.Analytic and holistic students exist w.

• Personal social and emotional development
• Learning styles and personalized teaching
• Promoting independent learning in the primary classroom
• Interactive approaches to teaching a framework for INSET
• Baseline assessment and monitoring in primary schools achievements attitudes and value added indicators
• Thinking through primary practice
• Creative science achieving the WOW factor with 5 11 year olds
• Re theorising the recognition of prior learning
• art of constructivist teaching in the primary school a guide for students and teachers
• politics of primary education
• Childrens mathematical thinking in the primary years perspectives on childrens learning
• Personal social and emotional development of children in the early years
• Improving childrens learning effective teaching in the primary school
• Teaching children to think
• childs mind
• Early reading development and dyslexia
• Using ICT in primary mathematics teaching
• Foundations of primary teaching
• Classrooms as learning communities whats in it for schools
• Planning creative literacy lessons
• Professional issues for primary teachers
• Baseline assessment practice problems and possibilities
• Creativity in the primary curriculum
• Interactive maths teaching in the primary school
• Rethinking school mathematics
• Teaching and learning in the early years
• phonology factor creating balance with beginning readers
• psychology of teaching and learning in the primary school
• What about the boys issues of masculinity in schools
• Teaching young children mathematics
• Promoting inclusive practice
• At a glance a practical guide to childrens special needs
• Teaching strategic processes in reading
• practical guide to teaching reading in the early years
• Time to play in early childhood education
• Supporting childrens learning a guide for teaching assistants
• Developing primary science
• Critical essays on major curriculum theorists
• How children learn to read and how to help them
• Starting school young children learning cultures
• Assessing quality in the early years early childhood environment rating scale extension ECERS E four curricular subscales
• Learning from differentiation a review of practice in primary and secondary schools
• Making the curriculum work for learners with dyslexia
• Teaching and learning through multiple intelligences
• Supporting creativity and imagination in the early years
• Reflective reader primary science
• Teaching maths to pupils with different learning styles
• Observing and assessing for the Foundation Stage Profile
• early years laying the foundations for racial equality
• Assessment for learning and teaching in primary schools
• Teaching children to learn
• Cross curricular learning 3 14
• practical guide to special education needs in inclusive primary classrooms
• really useful literacy book being creative with literacy in the primary classroom
• How to use an interactive whiteboard really effectively in your primary classroom
• Teaching and learning in the primary school
• Teaching learning and assessing science 5 12
• Inclusion in the early years stories of good practice
• Disseminating qualitative research in educational settings a critical introduction
• Foucaults challenge discourse knowledge and power in education
• RoutledgeFalmer reader in psychology of education
• Understanding primary science ideas concepts and explanations
• Getting the buggers into science
• Learning in the early years a guide for teachers of children 3 7
• psychology of effective learning and teaching
• Phonics practice research and policy
• Early years play and learning developing social skills and cooperation
• Learners and learning contexts
• Democracy and education
• Teaching children 3 to 11 a students guide
• Understanding reading development
• dyslexia friendly primary school a practical guide for teachers
• Raising boys achievement in primary schools towards an holistic approach
• Teaching and learning in the early years
• Understanding differentiation a teachers guide
• excellence of play
• Reading in the early years handbook
• Child development
• Conditions for learning teaching and learning in secondary schools pilot Learning styles
• Childrens mathematics making marks making meaning
• Teaching foundation stage
• Differentiation through learning styles and memory
• Closing the inclusion gap special and mainstream schools working in partnership
• Teaching number advancing childrens skills and strategies
• Positive teaching positive learning
• Learning objectives task setting and differentiation
• Understanding mathematics in the lower primary years a guide for teachers of children 3 8
• Boys and schooling in the early years
• Involving parents in their childrens learning
• Effective teaching evidence and practice
• Assessment and learning in the primary school
• Reflective teaching and learning a guide to professional issues for beginning secondary teachers
• Teaching primary mathematics
• Teaching science in primary schools a handbook of lesson plans knowledge and teaching methods
• Teaching and learning early number
• Mathematics in the primary school a sense of progression
• Supporting effective learning
• Developing learning in early childhood
• Inclusive education diverse perspectives
• Language and communication difficulties