Las Animas - Bent County Library District

In response to the crisis in American education, more than 5,000 public and private schools across the nation have adopted the time-less Montessori method of teaching for those under six.

Praise for How Learning Works —Barbara Gross Davis —Eugenia T. Paulus —Catherine M. Casserly —From the Foreword by Richard E. Mayere-Learning and the Science of Instruction; and author, Multimedia Learning

Here is a landmark book that reveals how boys think, showing parents, educators, and coaches how to reach out and help boys overcome their most common yet difficult challenges. Do you constantly struggle to pull information from your son, student, or athlete, only to encounter evasive assurances like "It's nothing"? Do you sense that the boy you care about is being bullied, but that he'll do anything to avoid your "help?" Have you watched with frustration...

Children come into the world biologically designed to educate themselves. Their natural curiosity, playfulness, sociability, willfulness, adventurousness, tendency to look ahead, and desire to do well in the world were all shaped, by natural selection, to serve the function of education. In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray describes, with research evidence, how these natural tendencies play themselves out in children...

This audio presentation will help parents help their children to be more successful in school.

Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike. Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her...

An easy-to-implement collection of creative ideas and new strategies that inspire students with the power of growth mindset Students who harness the power of growth mindset can succeed beyond their wildest imagination. The key is having a growth-mindset teacher who provides support, guidance, and encouragement. Packed with research-based teaching methods, this approachable guide for applying the growth mindset offers:• Tips for overcoming challenges•...

Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. She flunked her way through high school math and science courses, but when she saw how her lack of mathematical and technical savvy was severely limiting her options post-graduation, she returned to college newly determined to retool her brain to master the very subjects that had given her so much trouble. Here she lets us in on the secrets to effectively learning...

Includes "why traditional techniques such as reminders, rewards, and punishments make the problem worse; how the brain rewards learning, and how to rebuild the internal drive to achieve; a step by step plan for reaching kids who just don't seem to care about school; tools for preventing battles over schoolwork and homework; what to do when your child brings home a poor report card; how to respond when a child says, 'I don't care'; how to lay the foundation...