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- Paperback: 352 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.85 x 8.28 x 6.40
- Publisher: Touchstone Books;
(January 7, 2003)
- ISBN: 0743202236
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Description
"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel
Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians
in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and
some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in
all.
Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all
education philosophy. As a result, many children struggle
because their learning patterns don't fit the way they are being
taught.
In his #1 New York Times bestseller A Mind at a
Time, Dr. Levine shows parents and those who care for
children how to identify these individual learning patterns,
explaining how they can strengthen a child's abilities and
either bypass or help overcome the child's weaknesses, producing
positive results instead of repeated frustration and failure.
Consistent progress can result when we understand that not
every child can do equally well in every type of learning and
begin to pay more attention to individual learning patterns --
and individual minds -- so that we can maximize children's
success and gratification in life. In A Mind at a Time
Dr. Levine shows us how.
Recognizing each child's intellectual,
emotional, and physical strengths--and teaching directly to
these strengths--is key to sculpting "a mind at a
time," according to Dr. Mel Levine.
While this flashing yellow light will
not surprise many skilled educators, limited resources often
prevent them from shifting their instructional gears. But to
teachers and parents whose children face daily humiliation at
school, the author bellows, "Try harder!"
A professor of pediatrics at the
University of North Carolina Medical School, Levine eloquently
substantiates his claim that developmental growth deserves the
same monitoring as a child's physical growth.
Tales of creative, clumsy, impulsive, nerdy, intuitive,
loud-mouthed, and painfully shy kids help Levine define eight
specific mind systems (attention, memory, language, spatial
ordering, sequential ordering, motor, higher thinking, and
social thinking).
Levine also incorporates scientific research to show
readers how the eight neurodevelopmental systems evolve,
interact, and contribute to a child's success in school.
Detailed steps describe how mental processes (like problem
solving) work for capable kids, and how they can be finessed to
serve those who struggle.
Clear, practical suggestions for fostering self-monitoring
skills and building self-esteem add the most important elements
to this essential--yet challenging--program for "raisin'
brain." --Liane Thomas
Review
Edward Hallowell, M.D.instructor, Harvard
Medical School; director, The Hallowell Center, Sudbury,
Massachusetts; author of Driven to Distraction and Human
Moments.A Mind at a Time continues Mel Levine's enormously
valuable lifework of helping children find success....Brimming
with intelligence, humor, wit, and originality...this is a
groundbreaking and useful book.
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