Supporting Children′s Learning
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Supporting Children′s Learning

A Guide for Teaching Assistants

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eBook - ePub

Supporting Children′s Learning

A Guide for Teaching Assistants

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About This Book

Are you looking for a book that explains all the key ideas on how children learn, and how to best support children in that learning?

Covering all the major themes, this book offers:

o An introduction to the main theories of learning and development, from birth to primary;

o A chapter on brain development;

o An introduction to what motivates learners to learn, and how much learners understand about how learning takes place;

o A glossary of key terms;

o Case studies, research summaries, tasks for reflection, chapter summaries and advice on further reading.

This book will be essential reading for Teaching Assistants studying for Foundation Degrees, or for the Higher Level Teaching Assistant qualification. Students on any course looking at how children learn (such as Early Childhood and teacher training courses) will likewise find this book covers all the key themes.

Lyn Overall is Principal Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.

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Publisher
SAGE Publications Ltd
Year
2007
ISBN
9781446237281
Edition
1
Topic
Didattica
Subtopic
Istruzione elementare

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. About the Author
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. How to use this book
  8. Chapter 1 Learning and development
  9. Chapter 2 The brain and learning
  10. Chapter 3 The senses and learning
  11. Chapter 4 BIG theory 1: Skinner and the behaviourists
  12. Chapter 5 BIG theory 2: Piaget and the constructivists
  13. Chapter 6 BIG theory 3: Vygotsky and social constructivism
  14. Chapter 7 Managing learning
  15. Chapter 8 Managing discipline
  16. Glossary
  17. References
  18. Weblogy
  19. Web resources
  20. Index
  21. Appendices
  22. 1. Further reading
  23. 2. Answers to Task 2.1: Finding out about the brain using the BBC Human Brain Map 140