Summary
"Different minds learn differently," writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in others, but no one is equally capable in all. Yet most schools still cling to a one-size-fits-all education philosophy. As a result, many children struggle because their learning patterns don't fit the way
they are being taught.
In his #1 New York Times bestseller A Mind at a Time, Dr. Levine shows parents and those who care for children how to identify these individual learning patterns, explaining how they can strengthen a child's abilities and either bypass or help overcome the child's weaknesses, producing positive results instead of repeated frustration and failure.
Consistent progress can result when we understand that not every child can do equally well in every type of learning and begin to pay more attention to individual learning patterns -- and individual minds -- so that we can maximize children's success and gratification in life. In A Mind at a Time Dr. Levine shows us how.
Reviews
A wide-ranging exploration of the myriad ways in which young minds differ, coupled with vivid and useful recommendations about developing those minds to the fullest.
Howard Gardner
Professor in Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and author of The Disciplined Mind and Frames of Mind
A Mind at a Time continues Mel Levine's enormously valuable lifework of helping children find success....Brimming with intelligence, humor, wit, and originality...this is a groundbreaking and useful book.
Edward Hallowell, M.D.
instructor, Harvard Medical School; director, The Hallowell Center, Sudbury, Massachusetts; author of Driven to Distraction and Human Moments.
Contents
Acknowledgements
- A Mind At A Time: Introduction
- The Ways of Learning
- Conducting a Mind: Our Attention Control System
- Remembering to Learn and Learning to Remember: Our Memory System
- Ways with Words: Our Language System
- Making Arrangements: Our Spatial and Sequential Ordering Systems
- Mind Over Muscle: Our Motor System
- Some Peeks at a Mind’s Peaks: Our Higher Thinking System
- Relating to Relating: Our Social Thinking System
- When a Mind Falls Behind
- Getting a Mind Realigned( but not Redesigned)
- Raisin’ Brain: Homes for All Kinds of Minds
- The Right to Differ: Schools for All Kinds of Minds
