School Learning and Cognitive Styles

This Book Provides An Accessible Approach To Teaching Strategies That Will Improve The Quality Of Student Learning And Behavior. The Author Advocates That The Key To Effective Learning, And Therefore The Key To A Successful School, Is Not Complex Management Systems But Good Quality Teaching. With This Aim Clearly In Sight He Incorporates Recent Psychological Developments On Individual Learning Differences With Practical Classroom Applications. He Presents New Approaches In Three Key Areas: Processing Capacity, Cognitive Style And Understanding The Structure Of Knowledge. These Are Central To The Understanding Of Pupil Differences. They Affect Our Perception Of How Pupils Can Be Helped To Learn, Why Pupils Find Some Aspects Of Their Schoolwork Difficult, And Why Pupils Behave As They Do. With Simple Explanations And Practical Activities This Book Will Help Both Primary And Secondary Teachers To Improve Pupils Learning And Help Them To Manage Behavior More Effectively. The New Insights Into Difficult Behavior Will Also Be Of Interest To Counselors And Educational Psychologists. Front Cover -- School Learning And Cognitive Style -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction And Overview -- Effective Learning -- 1. Starting Where You Are -- What The Teacher Sees - Observable Classroom Behaviours -- The Factors Affecting School Performance -- Changing The Changeable - What The Teacher Can Affect -- 2. Working Memory And Processing Capacity -- Meaningful Learning And Working Memory -- The Features Of Working Memory -- Working Memory Assessment And Learning Performance -- 3. Cognitive Style -- Cognitive Style Dimensions -- The Nature Of Cognitive Style -- 4. Cognitive Style And Learning -- Style And Learning Performance -- Learning And Representational Preferences -- Working Memory Capacity, Cognitive Style And Learning -- 5. Style And Pupil Behaviour -- Style And Behaviour Problems -- Style And The Types Of Problem Behaviour -- Pupil Management -- 6. Long-term Memory -- Building A Structure Of Knowledge -- Integration Of New Information Into The Structure -- Maintaining The Availability Of Knowledge -- 7. Learning Design And Behaviour Management -- Style Of Teaching Delivery -- Planning A Topic And Its Delivery -- Managing Behaviour -- 8. Developing Pupil Learning Strategies -- The Distinction Between Style And Strategy -- The Formation Of Learning Strategies -- Facilitating The Development Of Learning Strategies -- Resources -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.