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Books
of General Education Interest
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Accommodations Manual
How to select,
administer and evaluate accommodations for instruction and
assessment of students with disabilities. Written by: The Council of
Chief State School Officers, August 2005. <http://www.ccsso.org/content/pdfs/AccommodationsManual.pdf>
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"The Students are
Watching: Schools and the Moral Contract", by Ted and Nancy
Sizer
"Written by
Theodore and Nancy Sizer, co-principals of a high school and veterans
in the field of education (he was named dean of the Harvard Graduate
School of Education at age 32, she trains teachers in the same
program), The Students Are Watching is a gentle but tough-minded plea
for resetting the moral compass of American education and creating
academic institutions "which will nurture our humanity." In
high schools, which the authors call "one of America's most
ubiquitous intentional communities," teachers and administrations
can choose to model values they believe in, or they can slip into the
same lazy strategies used by their students to avoid work and
responsibility. "They watch us all the time," warn the
Sizers, who believe in the profound power of the school system to
change children's lives, and offer a wealth of ideas for educators and
other adults to create the culture of trust and respect that will
change their charges for the better." --Maria Dolan
There was a time when IQ
was considered the leading determinant of success. In this fascinating
book, based on brain and behavioral research, Daniel Goleman argues
that our IQ-idolizing view of intelligence is far too narrow. Instead,
Goleman makes the case for "emotional intelligence" being
the strongest indicator of human success. He defines emotional
intelligence in terms of self-awareness, altruism, personal
motivation, empathy, and the ability to love and be loved by friends,
partners, and family members. People who possess high emotional
intelligence are the people who truly succeed in work as well as play,
building flourishing careers and lasting, meaningful
relationships. Because emotional intelligence isn't fixed at birth,
Goleman outlines how adults as well as parents of young children can
sow the seeds.
Amazon. com: Jim Carpenter,
from Florida, said, "YOUR OWN WORST ENEMY is a gold mine for the
underachieving person who is not content is not content to stay that
way. Dr. Christian goes far beyond the usual motivational methods and
rationalizations for inaction. He exposes the psychological scenarios
that cause so many capable people to remain unsuccessful, and provides
the tools to redefine one's life.
Many parents
search for a "good" school to enroll their children. They
look at the school's standardized test scores and check out
demographic statistics, but fail to investigate the strengths of these
schools that have a vibrant mix of races and cultures. Eileen Gale
Kugler offers a unique perspective on what every educator, parent, and
community leader should know about reaping the rich harvest of our
diverse schools. This book provides guidance on how we can all work
together to dispel the myths and nurture the opportunities that these
schools offer such as academic challenge and social advantages.
Anecdotes from Kugler's personal experience are included as well as
information from 80 interviews with key educators, parents, and
students. This book stands alone as a resource that pulls all of
this information together. Will be of interest to anyone who cares
about education.
In "Explosive
Child," Ross W. Greene includes many examples of frustrating
situations coped with daily by children of TS, ADHD, depression,
bipolar disorder and other disorders that lead to chronically
inflexible behavior. He provides a well explained, step-by-step,
plan of action to be implemented in family, school, and other
environments to help gently diffuse or prevent explosive moments.
Two Ivy League Students with Learning
Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and
Educational Revolution by Jonathan Mooney, David Cole
Provides information to
teachers and parents to aid in the teaching of students with attention
deficit hyperactivity disorder, Tourette Syndrome or
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Different
minds learn differently, writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known
education experts and pediatricians in America today. And that's a
problem for many children, because most schools still cling to a
one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, these children
struggle because their learning patterns don't fit the schools they
are in. In A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows parents and others who
care for children how to identify these individual learning patterns.
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"The Myth of Laziness" -- by Mel Levine
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"Keeping a Head
in School: A Student's Book About Learning Abilities and Learning
Disorders" -- by Mel Levine
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"Forging Your
Future in College" - by John McGrane
Forging Your Future in
College' by John McGrane was designed to be a college pre-orientation
for graduating high school seniors. Although college orientation
programs have improved greatly, they are still as much about helping
freshmen students get acclimated as they are about preparing them for
the more academically demanding environment of college. Much of
college orientation is simply about introducing the students to each
other through various social events. Further, the first hectic weeks
of college, when most orientations are conducted, are hardly conducive
to the kind of introspection and forethought necessary to make sure a
student gets off on the right foot. This book attempts to supplement
college orientation by exposing students to certain issues,
methods and realities in time for them to mull over and integrate
them.
The book contains straight forward, uncomplicated instruction on
how to learn most efficiently in college and also friendly advice on
how to maintain one’s focus, probably the most difficult task for
students experiencing freedom for the first time. Although this book
is comprehensive, it is intentionally brief (92 pages) and to the
point. Most other books about going to college beat the subject
to death and in the process bore the student to death. Secondly this
book, better than any other, helps the student become aware of their
own personal drives, fears, and needs: the “non-cognitive”
determiners of academic success, and offers them thoughtful
suggestions on how to cope with them.
Lastly, although this book is loaded with practical hints designed to
help all students reach their maximum potential in college, it is
particularly well-suited to helping underachievers. Last year one out
of four college freshmen didn’t return for their sophomore year.
This book was written in the belief that this number is way too high:
that the vast majority of high school graduates are fully capable of
doing well at the college level if they can only apply themselves.
Guidance on how to build partnerships -- from the parents
perspective..
About the Author - Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., is a psychologist,
learning specialist, and consultant to educational groups around the
world. He has written for Family Circle, Ladies' Home Journal, and
Parenting magazine, and is the author of nine books, including
Awakening Your Child's Natural Genius and The Myth of the
A.D.D. Child.
Does your child have a favorite subject,
activity, or hobby? Children learn in multiple ways, and educator
Thomas Armstrong has shown hundreds of thousands of parents and
teachers how to locate those unique areas in each of our children
where learning and creativity seem to flow with special vigor. In
this fully updated classic on multiple intelligences, Armstrong
sheds new light on the "eight ways to bloom," or the eight kinds of
"multiple intelligences." While everyone possesses all eight
intelligences, Armstrong delineates how to discover your
child's particular areas of strength among them. The book shatters
the conventional wisdom that brands our students as
"underachievers," "unmotivated," or as suffering from "learning
disabilities," "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder," or other
"learning diseases." Armstrong explains how these flawed labels
often overlook students who are in possession of a distinctive
combination of multiple intelligences, and demonstrates how to help
them acquire knowledge and skills according to their sometimes
extraordinary aptitudes. Filled with resources for the home
and classroom, this new edition of In Their Own Way offers
inspiration for every learning situation.
Revised and Updated with Information on 2 New
Kinds of Smart. Based on psychologist Howard Gardner's
pioneering theory of "multiple intelligences," the original edition
of 7 Kinds of Smart identified seven distinct ways of being smart,
including "word smart," "music smart," "logic smart," and "people
smart." Now, with the addition of two new kinds of
smart--"naturalist" and "existential"--7 Kinds of Smart offers even
more interesting information about how the human psyche functions.
Complete with checklists for determining one's strongest and weakest
intelligences, exercises, practical tips for developing each type of
smart, a revised bibliography for further reading, and a guide to
related Internet sites, this book continues to be an essential
resource, offering cutting-edge research for general consumption.
"At last, thanks to Thomas Armstrong, we have a book that
introduces the theory of multiple intelligences to the general
public. As an extra dividend, it helps people to discover and
unleash their own intellectual strengths."--Howard Gardner, Ph.D.,
author of Frames
of Mind.
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