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Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
David N. Perkins, Harvard University
ISBN: 978-0-470-38452-7
©2008
256 pages
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David Perkins, co-director of Harvard's Project Zero, describes how teaching all subjects at all levels can be made more effective through teaching the "whole game."  Perkins presents the 7 priciples of teaching the whole game, including:
  1.  "Play the Whole Game"--explains how complete treatments of even more complex subjects can be presented in junior versions.
  2. "Make the Game Worth Playing"--understanding the whole game makes the game worth playing because students get the point of why they need to know what they're learning.
  3. "Work on the Hard Parts"--teaching the whole game reveals gaps in knowledge that can then be addressed.
  4. "Play Out of Town"--challenge learners by taking them out of their comfort zones in a subject.  Train them to be able to transfer their learning to related subjects.
  5. "Find the Hidden Game"--go beyond the obvious to teach the rules, tricks, and strategies that are often hidden to students, but essential in the real world.
  6. "Learn from the Team"--encourage students to communicate and work with one another to improve learning, even in areas where collaboration is does not come naturally.
  7. "Learn the Game of Learning"--Make sure students are taught and given practice in how to learn.  Help them become self-managed learners who will continue to learn even when you the teacher are gone. 

The principles are universals of learning, applicable to any age from kindergarten through college.  


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