Teach Like the Mind Learns
Instruct So Students Learn to Think, Read, and Write Critically
By (author) Victor P. Maiorana
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Publication date:
30 January 2017Length of book:
184 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781475827972
This book provides the profession with across-discipline illustrations of classroom assignments that utilize and develop the mind’s innate but informal gift to think critically. By applying the universal gift formally, faculty, for the first time, can lead all students to think, read, listen, write, speak, and observe critically while concurrently comprehending new and revisited subject matter.
This work is for use as a textbook in teacher preparation and professional development programs. Teacher-educators, teacher-candidates, school and college faculty, and professional developers are shown how to explicitly apply mind grammar to the design of classroom assignments. Disadvantaged, English language learners, general, and special education students will all have their innate abilities to reason critically nurtured and developed.
Teach Like the Mind Learns, along with Fixing Instruction and Preparation for Critical Instruction, provides the teaching profession with ownership - as with doctors, engineers, and lawyers – of its language, standards, preparation, and practice. The merging of subject matter instruction with the development of critical language abilities is now a reality for the teaching profession. The consequences are that faculty practice and student achievement will be substantially more tangible, respected, and universally prized.
This work is for use as a textbook in teacher preparation and professional development programs. Teacher-educators, teacher-candidates, school and college faculty, and professional developers are shown how to explicitly apply mind grammar to the design of classroom assignments. Disadvantaged, English language learners, general, and special education students will all have their innate abilities to reason critically nurtured and developed.
Teach Like the Mind Learns, along with Fixing Instruction and Preparation for Critical Instruction, provides the teaching profession with ownership - as with doctors, engineers, and lawyers – of its language, standards, preparation, and practice. The merging of subject matter instruction with the development of critical language abilities is now a reality for the teaching profession. The consequences are that faculty practice and student achievement will be substantially more tangible, respected, and universally prized.
Teach Like the Mind Learns is written in a format for teacher-educators, college students in education programs, practicing teachers, professional developers, and administrators. It is clearly structured to guide the reader down a path of transitioning from instruction that induces rote learning to instruction that induces critical learning. The many types of examples provided within this text will assist the reader in developing his/her own creative ideas for critical instruction within the classroom setting to best meet the needs of learners of all modalities.
In creating a learning environment of such magnitude through the use of Mind Grammar, which is based on our innate and informal ability to think critically, students will ultimately have a greater development of critical language abilities, where they will seek the intent of the subject matter all the while considering its consequences. Through these practices, we will be establishing a learning environment conducive for students to become better thinkers, readers, writers, listeners, and speakers that they will ultimately carry over these skills into their adult lives. The question and answer section of this book is insightful and clarifies the use of mind grammar strategies in various types of learning institutions with students of all ability levels. Teach Like the Mind Learns, along with Fixing Instruction and Preparation for Critical Instruction, is another revolutionary text by Victor Maiorana that will change the face of education in America for generations to come.
“Teach Like the Mind Learns” teaches the reader that applying Mind Grammar strategy and associated techniques will naturally open students’ innate ability to comprehend subject matter on a more critical level. Whereas, they will be provided, through instruction, the necessary cognitive “tools” to deepen not only their understanding, but a more thorough comprehension of the material. This text proves that through this deepened comprehension, students will create meaning via development and application of the subject matter in other contexts as well as being able to explain the material and its causes and effects on people, places and events.
With Mind Grammar implementation in class lessons across all disciplinary areas, educators can now engage students with subject matter’s “end-in-mind” and “consequences.” Therefore, students can be guided on how to analyze and process new information to create meaning and understanding on their own; this being the basis for critical understanding, comprehension and explanation of material.
Changing our educational practices by teaching students to learn through the critical thinking, reading, and writing strategies and techniques so eloquently described in this book will raise our profession to new heights, and be a true gift to the future of all students in their life-long journey of learning.
In creating a learning environment of such magnitude through the use of Mind Grammar, which is based on our innate and informal ability to think critically, students will ultimately have a greater development of critical language abilities, where they will seek the intent of the subject matter all the while considering its consequences. Through these practices, we will be establishing a learning environment conducive for students to become better thinkers, readers, writers, listeners, and speakers that they will ultimately carry over these skills into their adult lives. The question and answer section of this book is insightful and clarifies the use of mind grammar strategies in various types of learning institutions with students of all ability levels. Teach Like the Mind Learns, along with Fixing Instruction and Preparation for Critical Instruction, is another revolutionary text by Victor Maiorana that will change the face of education in America for generations to come.
“Teach Like the Mind Learns” teaches the reader that applying Mind Grammar strategy and associated techniques will naturally open students’ innate ability to comprehend subject matter on a more critical level. Whereas, they will be provided, through instruction, the necessary cognitive “tools” to deepen not only their understanding, but a more thorough comprehension of the material. This text proves that through this deepened comprehension, students will create meaning via development and application of the subject matter in other contexts as well as being able to explain the material and its causes and effects on people, places and events.
With Mind Grammar implementation in class lessons across all disciplinary areas, educators can now engage students with subject matter’s “end-in-mind” and “consequences.” Therefore, students can be guided on how to analyze and process new information to create meaning and understanding on their own; this being the basis for critical understanding, comprehension and explanation of material.
Changing our educational practices by teaching students to learn through the critical thinking, reading, and writing strategies and techniques so eloquently described in this book will raise our profession to new heights, and be a true gift to the future of all students in their life-long journey of learning.