How to revise and practice
How to revise and practice

Author: Fiona McPherson

Publisher: Wayz Press

Published: 2020-11-08

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 1927166640

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this revised edition of How to Learn: The 10 principles of effective revision & practice, examples and exercises from science, mathematics, history, foreign languages, and skill learning, are used to show exactly how to apply the 10 principles of effective practice and revision. Few students know how to revise effectively, which is why they waste so much time going over and over material, as they try to hammer it into their heads. But you don’t need to spend all that time, and you don’t need to endure such boredom. What you need to do is understand how to review your learning in the most effective way. Using examples and exercises from science, math, history, foreign languages, and skill learning, that is what this book aims to teach you. This workbook will tell you —what you should practice or revise —how you should revise —how often you should revise —how far apart you should schedule your sessions —different strategies you can use in your practice / revision —how skill learning differs from ‘fact’ learning and more. This workbook is for students who are serious about being successful in study, and teachers who want to know how best to help their students learn.

Revision Decisions
Revision Decisions

Author: Jeff Anderson

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-10

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1003842364

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Revision is often a confusing and difficult process for students, but it's also the most important part of the writing process. If students leave our classrooms not knowing how to move a piece of writing forward, we've failed them. Revision Decisions: Talking Through Sentences and Beyond will help teachers develop the skills students need in an ever-evolving writing, language, and reading world. Jeff Anderson and Deborah Dean have written a book that engages writers in the tinkering, playing, and thinking that are essential to clarify and elevate writing. Focusing on sentences, the authors use mentor texts to show the myriad possibilities that exist for revision. Essential to their process is the concept of classroom talk. Readers will be shown how revision lessons can be discussed in a generative way, and how each student can benefit from talking through the revision process as a group. Revision Decisions focuses on developing both the writing and the writer. The easy-to-follow lessons make clear and accessible the rigorous thinking and the challenging process of making writing work. Narratives, setup lessons, templates, and details about how to move students toward independence round out this essential book. Additionally, the authors weave the language, reading, and writing goals of the Common Core and other standards into an integrated and connected practice. The noted language arts teacher James Britton once said that good writing floats on a sea of talk. Revision Decisions supports those genuine conversations we naturally have as readers and writers, leading the way to the essential goal of making meaning.

Make It Stick
Make It Stick

Author: Peter C. Brown

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2014-04-14

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0674729013

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners. Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging leads both to more complex mastery and better retention of what was learned. Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.

The Writing Revolution
The Writing Revolution

Author: Judith C. Hochman

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-08-07

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1119364914

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Why you need a writing revolution in your classroom and how to lead it The Writing Revolution (TWR) provides a clear method of instruction that you can use no matter what subject or grade level you teach. The model, also known as The Hochman Method, has demonstrated, over and over, that it can turn weak writers into strong communicators by focusing on specific techniques that match their needs and by providing them with targeted feedback. Insurmountable as the challenges faced by many students may seem, The Writing Revolution can make a dramatic difference. And the method does more than improve writing skills. It also helps: Boost reading comprehension Improve organizational and study skills Enhance speaking abilities Develop analytical capabilities The Writing Revolution is as much a method of teaching content as it is a method of teaching writing. There's no separate writing block and no separate writing curriculum. Instead, teachers of all subjects adapt the TWR strategies and activities to their current curriculum and weave them into their content instruction. But perhaps what's most revolutionary about the TWR method is that it takes the mystery out of learning to write well. It breaks the writing process down into manageable chunks and then has students practice the chunks they need, repeatedly, while also learning content.

Revising and Editing for Translators
Revising and Editing for Translators

Author: Brian Mossop

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-05

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1317662539

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Revising and Editing for Translators provides guidance and learning materials for translation students learning to edit texts written by others, and professional translators wishing to improve their self-revision ability or learning to revise the work of others. Editing is understood as making corrections and improvements to texts, with particular attention to tailoring them to the given readership. Revising is this same task applied to draft translations. The linguistic work of editors and revisers is related to the professional situations in which they work. Mossop offers in-depth coverage of a wide range of topics, including copyediting, style editing, structural editing, checking for consistency, revising procedures and principles, and translation quality assessment. This third edition provides extended coverage of computer aids for revisers, and of the different degrees of revision suited to different texts. The inclusion of suggested activities and exercises, numerous real-world examples, a proposed grading scheme for editing assignments, and a reference glossary make this an indispensable coursebook for professional translation programmes.

The Bean of Life
The Bean of Life

Author: David Safford

Publisher: David H. Safford

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780997088106

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is not your average coffee table book. The Bean of Life is the story of a man desperate to save the world with his coffee. As he risks everything to make his dream a reality, he will come face-to-face with the power of evil, the delicacy of friendship, and the ubiquity of suffering. The perfect novel for anyone with a coffee obsession or a passion for justice, The Bean of Life is the wild, witty, and tragically vibrant story of Fischer Kaldi and his unlikely adventure to save the world with Earth's most blessed bean. Stuck in a soulless franchise, Fischer must find a way to open his ideal coffee shop and share his life-changing Specials with the city. To do this he recruits Sully, a coffee drinker and aspiring romantic, to help him achieve his dream. But saving the world won't be so simple when evil stops by for a cup of its own, forcing Fischer and Sully to make heart-breaking choices while the city they love starts to fall apart. Learn more at http: //BeanofLife.com

Oxford Revise: AQA GCSE Physics Revision and Exam Practice
Oxford Revise: AQA GCSE Physics Revision and Exam Practice

Author: Helen Reynolds

Publisher: Oxford University Press - Children

Published: 2020-10-08

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1382017979

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Based on principles of cognitive science, this three-step approach to effective revision combines knowledge, retrieval and interleaving, and extensive exam-style practice to help students master knowledge and skills for GCSE success. UK schools save 50% off the RRP! Discount will be automatically applied when you order on your school account.

The Rules of Revision
The Rules of Revision

Author: Liam Porritt

Publisher:

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780993042973

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Some students just seem to absorb information, effortlessly gliding through revision and exams without the slightest difficulty. The rest of us find revision dull and unproductive. However, surely the info-sponges aren't superhuman? Surely there's no such thing as a revision-friendly gene? So, do they know something that the rest of us don't? Yes - they know The Rules of Revision. This guide reveals the secrets to both fruitful exam preparation and successful exam technique. It offers a set of rules that will ensure you maximise your potential by making your revision more focused and productive than it has ever been before. Written by ten students at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Liam and his team offer what no teacher can. Their proven knowledge of exactly how to succeed in both the revision process and the exam room makes this book a must-have for all students.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates

Publisher: American Bar Association

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781590318737

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.