Brain Rules by John Medina
This book is spectacular for understanding how the brain works, what facilitates learning, and what learning actually is. The book is simply marvelous for helping somebody understand how to learn and how to educate their children or students.
Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
This spectacular book reviews the evidence behind the lives is top level achievers in various fields of human skill and development. The verdict is that top achievers always work incredibly hard and regularly fail, review their failures, and then change how they do things. The term for this is called deliberate practice, it is performing an action while thinking about how to do it better. An indispensable tool in any form of human growth.
Cultivate by Jeff Meyers
This marvelous book is about one-on-one mentoring with young people. Parents must have this skill. So must teachers. If teachers/parents/pastors cannot develop meaningful, beneficial relationships with the young people in their care, they will not be able to help them improve in any area.
The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory
Read it. Cringe every time you find that you've failed as a teacher. Then get better.
Thoughts on Education by John Locke
I couldn't put it down. Locke even includes a section on how to teach Bible to students. He was a great thinker, there is much to disagree with and much to learn. His advice on spanking is classic and helpful today. He basically says that except in the most extreme circumstances it is unhelpful, especially when done out of anger.
Teaching the Trivium by Harvey Bluedorn
It might get a bit weird for people unfamiliar with the biblical patriarchy movement, but the information is simply too good. I cannot side with them on Biblical Patriarchy, but the authors are very charitable with their position and never condemn anybody who differs. There is a weird moment in the Hebrew language section about it perhaps being the original language of the human race, I do not think the evidence points to that, but the book is still worth while.
The Disciplined Mind and Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardener
Both of these books will help many parents avoid the trap of expecting their children to all learn the same way, a vast amount of brain research shows that many people excel initially a some things over others and that different domains of people's brains are active when using the same skill set. What this tells us essentially is that people's strengths and weaknesses need to be played to effectively. The truth sounds obvious, but the way most parents and educators work with children you would think it were a secret.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
This text should be read by parents and then probably be condensed into a helpful, less wordy summary so that their children can learn to read actively and fruitfully from an early age. Just sayin'.
This book is spectacular for understanding how the brain works, what facilitates learning, and what learning actually is. The book is simply marvelous for helping somebody understand how to learn and how to educate their children or students.
Talent is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
This spectacular book reviews the evidence behind the lives is top level achievers in various fields of human skill and development. The verdict is that top achievers always work incredibly hard and regularly fail, review their failures, and then change how they do things. The term for this is called deliberate practice, it is performing an action while thinking about how to do it better. An indispensable tool in any form of human growth.
Cultivate by Jeff Meyers
This marvelous book is about one-on-one mentoring with young people. Parents must have this skill. So must teachers. If teachers/parents/pastors cannot develop meaningful, beneficial relationships with the young people in their care, they will not be able to help them improve in any area.
The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory
Read it. Cringe every time you find that you've failed as a teacher. Then get better.
Thoughts on Education by John Locke
I couldn't put it down. Locke even includes a section on how to teach Bible to students. He was a great thinker, there is much to disagree with and much to learn. His advice on spanking is classic and helpful today. He basically says that except in the most extreme circumstances it is unhelpful, especially when done out of anger.
Teaching the Trivium by Harvey Bluedorn
It might get a bit weird for people unfamiliar with the biblical patriarchy movement, but the information is simply too good. I cannot side with them on Biblical Patriarchy, but the authors are very charitable with their position and never condemn anybody who differs. There is a weird moment in the Hebrew language section about it perhaps being the original language of the human race, I do not think the evidence points to that, but the book is still worth while.
The Disciplined Mind and Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardener
Both of these books will help many parents avoid the trap of expecting their children to all learn the same way, a vast amount of brain research shows that many people excel initially a some things over others and that different domains of people's brains are active when using the same skill set. What this tells us essentially is that people's strengths and weaknesses need to be played to effectively. The truth sounds obvious, but the way most parents and educators work with children you would think it were a secret.
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler
This text should be read by parents and then probably be condensed into a helpful, less wordy summary so that their children can learn to read actively and fruitfully from an early age. Just sayin'.
1 comments:
Too bad I wasn't aware of all these useful books when you were in your formative years. Glad you have been able to learn from them and I'm sure your students will benefit from what you learned. Very interesting list of books. (by your mom)
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