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The companion book to COURSERA®'s wildly popular massive open online course "Learning How to Learn"
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with...
Whether you are a student struggling to fulfill a math or science requirement, or you are embarking on a career change that requires a new skill set, A Mind for Numbers offers the tools you need to get a better grasp of that intimidating material. Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with...
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American Psychological Association
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"This engaging, student-friendly book debunks major myths about studying and provides practical tips for studying smarter, not harder. Written by expert psychology teachers who also conduct the very research that these tips are based on, this book outlines clear steps students can use throughout their high school and college careers to plan, monitor, and evaluate their learning."--
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Lectio Ediciones
Pub. Date
2019.
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Español
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Aprender a convivir con tus emociones mediante viñetas Muchas veces tratamos las emociones como una debilidad congénita al hecho de ser humanos. Nos sentimos mal si experimentamos miedo, rabia o incluso si mostramos demasiada alegría en determinados momentos. Procuramos racionalizarlo todo. En este libro, la psicóloga Raquel Ballesteros, nos propone contemplar las emociones como el lenguaje biológico y universal que es y entender cuál es su...
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English
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"In this new edition of the highly regarded Why Don't Students Like School? cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham turns his research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning into workable teaching techniques. This book will help you improve your teaching practice by explaining how you and your students think and learn. It reveals the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building knowledge and creating lasting learning...
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Vergara, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
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Español
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"Un manual práctico que sintetiza, de forma sencilla y amena, cómo aprende el cerebro y qué puedes hacer para desarrollar todo su potencial. Por el experto en neurociencia y psicología del aprendizaje Héctor Ruiz Martín. ¿Por qué a unas personas se les dan mejor los estudios que a otras? ¿Qué diferencias entre los estudiantes determinan su habilidad para aprender? ¿Cómo podemos adquirir conocimientos más profundos, duraderos y transferibles...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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"Mindful awareness practices to help teachers recognize and regulate emotional reactivity in their classrooms. Teaching is one of the most rewarding professions, but also one of the most demanding. This book offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help educators manage the stresses of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional learning environment, and revitalize both their teaching and their students' knowledge acquisition....
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"An essential guide to tackling what students, families, and educators can do now to cut through stress and performance pressure, and find a path to purpose. Today's college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They're performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they're "supposed" to in order to reach the next tier of a relentless ladder. Then, their mental and physical exhaustion...
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Adults easily recognize childrens' imagination at work as they play. Yet most of us know little about what really goes on inside their heads as they encounter the problems and complexities of the world around them. Susan Engel brings together an extraordinary body of research to explain how toddlers, preschoolers, and elementary-aged children think"--Back cover.
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Harriman House Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"How did we conclude that the best way to prepare kids for the future is to cluster them into classrooms by age and grade, forcing them to learn the same things, at the same time and pace, seven hours a day, five days a week, for twelve years? We trust the school system to prepare our kids for the future. We get excited when they get good grades, or disappointed if they don’t. But we rarely stop to question whether school is teaching our children...
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