Here are a few of the topics-
• Get the focus on learning as a process; the "how" of learning
• Emotions in learning
• Figure it out
• Learning to Learn and computers
• Be a discriminating learner
• Learning other than in school
• Grades and report cards
• Asking good questions
• Research methods
• Study skills
• Listening
• Help your child to be an independent thinker
• Mathematics and Science as learning to learn
• Formation of values
• Learn to Learn and gender
• Competition and cooperation
Many of us as parents desperately want to help our child be more competent in school - learn more, get better grades, enjoy learning , and be self-motivated.
But how?
How to be supportive without alienating the child? Without interfering with the school curriculum?
Dr. Philip Johnson has written a simple guide for parents, not so much about how to help a child learn, but even more important, how to help a child LEARN HOW TO LEARN.
This brief (130 pages) but thoughtful book will provide you with fifty practical, adaptable techniques and principles, as well as a pattern to follow, so that you can be an effective counselor and guide to your child, turning learning into fun. Your role will become more like a colleague, less like a boss!
Best of all, your child will be more motivated, more curious, and more excited about school!
About the Author
Philip E. (Ed) Johnson has been a teacher for many years - from graduate programs to the elementary school level. He has been an elementary school principal, and holds an M.Ed. degree, and a Ph.D. in education. Ed has been Director of Faculty Development at the college level, and has written extensively on the concept of Learning to Learn and process education. He is the father for four children, and lives in Tucson, Arizona.
