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"The topic of working memory nowadays tends to dominate discussions with teachers and parents, and both groups can helpfully be directed to this easy-to-read but serious text ! (it) is likely to prove a turning-point in the management and facilitation of hard-to-teach children. In a situation muddied by ever-multiplying syndromes and disorders, this book delivers a clarifying and reassuring isolation of the major cognitive characteristic that cuts across all the boundaries and leaves the class teacher and SENCO empowered. I think very highly of the book and shall be recommending it steadily." Martin Turner, Child Center for Evaluation and Teaching, Kuwait Memory and Learning A good working memory is crucial to becoming a successful learner, yet there is very little material available in an easy-to-use format that explains the concept and offers practitioners ways to support children with poor working memory in the classroom. This book provides a coherent overview of the role played by working memory in learning during the school years, and uses theory to inform good practice.Topics covered include: - the link between working memory skills and key areas of learning (such as literacy & numeracy) - the relationship between working memory and children with developmental disorders - assessment of children for working memory deficits - strategies for supporting working memory in under-performing children This accessible guide will help SENCOs, teachers, teaching assistants, speech and language therapists and educational psychologists to understand and address working memory in their setting.
| ISBN | 1412936136 | | Pages | 144 | | ISBN13 | 9781412936132
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | SAGE Publications Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 281 | | Imprint | SAGE Publications Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 242 | | Publication date | 09 Jan 2008 | | Width (mm) | 170 | | Library of Congress | LB1139 | | Spine width (mm) | 9 | | DEWEY | 370.152 | | Academic level | Tertiary education | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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What Is Working Memory? Working Memory in Childhood Working Memory and Learning Children with Working Memory Impairments Children with Short-Term Memory Impairments Working Memory in Children with Developmental Disorders Assessing Working Memory Supporting Learning in Memory-Impaired Children
'The authors have written a guide for practitioners that is both highly practical, and yet based upon sound theoretical principles...This book achieves a successful, yet often elusive, link between theory, research and practice, and deserves to have a high readership. I will have no hesitation in recommending it to a range of readers' - Jane Mott, Support for Learning 'This book fulfils its aim to explain working memory and the limits it places on children's classroom learning. For teachers it gives a very clear guide and fills a gap in understanding that can only lead to more child-centred approaches to teaching and learning' - Lynn Ambler, Support for Learning  Be the first to write a customer review
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| Version | Price | Published | Edition | | Hardback | £71.00 | 2008 | illustrated edition |
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