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Learning and learning difficulties : approaches to teaching and assessment.

This book supports inclusive practice by examining learning difficulties within the context of how humans learn and how teaching can create or prevent problems. It includes:a detailed look at different perspectives on human learningpractical teaching approaches grounded in sound theoryinformation on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Westwood, Peter S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Taylor & Francis, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a This book supports inclusive practice by examining learning difficulties within the context of how humans learn and how teaching can create or prevent problems. It includes:a detailed look at different perspectives on human learningpractical teaching approaches grounded in sound theoryinformation on moderate to sever difficulties in literacy and numeracy. This is an essential reference for SENCOs, staff working as part of a support unit or in special schools, LEA advisers, teachers and TAs. 
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505 0 |a Cover -- Learning and Learning Difficulties: Approaches to teaching and assessment -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Perspectives on learning -- Teaching should be based on a knowledge of learning -- Learning defined and described -- Types of learning -- Categories of learning -- Learning physical (psychomotor) skills -- Acquiring information -- Developing intellectual skills -- Learning cognitive and metacognitive strategies -- Developing attitudes, beliefs and values -- Intentional learning and incidental learning -- Observational learning -- Rote learning versus meaningful learning -- Learning hierarchies -- The process and sequence of learning -- The roie of practice -- Further reading -- 2 Theories of learning and motivation -- Behavioural theory -- Cognitive theories of learning -- Information processing -- Representing information in long-term memory -- Constructivist perspective -- Criticisms of the constructivist viewpoint -- Neobehaviourism -- Self-efficacy -- Locus of control and atiribution theory -- Explanatory style -- Attribution retraining -- Metacognition and self-regulation -- Motivation -- Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation -- Expectancy-value theory -- Motivation in the classroom -- Further reading -- 3 Brain, memory and intelligence -- Brain development -- Learning and the brain -- Exploring brain function and structure -- Memory -- Short-term memory -- Working memory -- Long-term memory -- Meta-memory -- Forgetting -- Remembering -- Intelligence -- Models of intelligence -- Contemporary views -- Can intelligence be taught? -- Beyond intelligence -- A current definition -- Further reading -- 4 Learning difficulties: prevalence and causes -- Students with learning difficulties -- Possible causes of learning difficulty -- Teaching methods as a cause of learning difficulty -- Curriculum -- Classroom environment. 
505 8 |a Socio-economic disadvantage -- Poor relationship between student and teacher -- Poor school attendance -- Health and physical status -- Learning through the medium of a second language -- Loss of confidence -- Emotional oir behavioural problems -- Below-average intelligence -- Sensory impairment -- Specific information processing difficulties -- Visual perceptual difficulties -- Auditory perception -- Attentional difficulties -- Memory -- Further reading -- 5 Specific learning disabilities -- Discrepancy between ability and achievement -- Defining and describing learning disability -- Types of learning disability -- Prevalence -- Causes -- Genetic factors -- Neurological factors -- Phonological awareness and rapid automatic naming -- Visual perception -- Learning style -- Dyspedagogia (inefficient teaching) -- Identification -- Differential diagnosis -- Are students with SpLD really different from other low achievers? -- intervention methods -- Further reading -- 6 Difficulties in reading -- Defining and describing reading -- Learning to read -- Word identification and phonics -- Reading difficulties -- Reading disability: dysiexia -- Aptitude-Treatment interactions -- Phonological awareness -- Is dyslexia different from other types of reading difficulty? -- General principles of intervention -- Further reading -- 7 Difficulties in writing and spelling -- The need for explicit instruction -- Writing is a complex skill -- Developmental aspects of writing and spelling -- Difficulties in writing -- Difficulties with spelling -- Phonological skills -- Visual imagery -- Insufficient instruction -- Specific disability in written language: dysgraphia -- Handwriting -- Assessment -- Intervention: general principles -- Strategy instruction -- Interventions for spelling -- Use of computers and spellcheckers -- Further reading. 
505 8 |a 8 Learning difficulties in mathematics -- The changing nature of mathematics education -- Learning difficulties in mathematics -- Poor teaching generates poor learning -- Affective components of learning difficulties in mathematics -- Specific learning disability in mathematics: developmental dyscalculia -- Specific areas of weakness -- Subtypes within dyscaiculia -- Determining a student's instructional needs -- Intervention: general principles and strategies -- Further reading -- 9 Intellectual disability -- Description and definition -- Mild intellectual disability -- Moderate intellectual disability -- Severe intellectual disability -- Autism -- Causes of intellectual disability -- Cognition -- Attention -- Memory -- Generalisation -- Motivation -- Language delay or disorder -- Social development -- Teaching approaches for students with intellectual disability -- Further reading -- References -- Index. 
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