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How Learning Works

A Playbook

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    240 pages

  • Release Date

    13 February 2022

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Summary

Translate the science of learning into strategies for maximum learning impact in your classroom.

The content, skills, and understandings students need to learn today are as diverse, complex, and multidimensional as the students in our classrooms. How can educators best create the learning experiences students need to truly learn?

How Learning Works: A Playbook unpacks the science of how students learn and translates that knowledge into promisi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781071856635
ISBN-10:1071856634
Author:Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John T. Almarode
Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:Corwin Press Inc
Format:Spiral
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:13 February 2022
Weight:680g
Dimensions:215mm x 279mm
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How Learning Works by Douglas Fisher - ISBN: 9781071856635
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Critics Review

Easy to understand, yet covers many important concepts. Spiral binding constitutes its use over many years, hopefully. – Dr Betty Hubschman

About The Author

Douglas Fisher

John Almarode

John Almarode is a professor of education at James Madison University. He was awarded the inaugural Sarah Miller Luck Endowed Professorship in 2015 and received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council for Higher Education in Virginia in 2021. John started as a mathematics and science teacher in Augusta County, Virginia. John has written multiple books, book chapters, papers, and reports. His collaborative work with colleagues on what works best in teaching and learning includes How Tutoring Works, Visible Learning in Early Childhood, and How Learning Works, all with Corwin Press.

Douglas Fisher

Douglas Fisher is a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Fisher was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. In 2022, he was inducted into the Reading Hall of Fame by the Literacy Research Association. He has published numerous articles on reading and literacy, leadership, and curriculum design, as well as books such as Your Introduction to PLC+, Welcome to Teaching, How Feedback Works, Teaching Reading, and RIGOR Unveiled. Fisher loves being an educator and hopes to share that passion with others.

Nancy Frey

Nancy Frey is a professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a teacher leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Her published titles include The Courage to Learn, The Art and Science of Coaching, How Scaffolding Works, and The Illustrated Guide to Visible Learning. Frey is a credentialed special educator, reading specialist, and administrator in California and learns from teachers and students every day.

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