A Parent's Guide to Learning Difficulties: How to Help Your Child
Publisher: ACER Press | ISBN: 0864318405 | edition 2008 | PDF | 120 pages | 2 MB
A Parent's Guide to Learning Difficulties provides parents with a clear explanation of the many causes of children's problems in learning. The book contains jargon-free and practical advice for helping children with reading, writing, and mathematics. It also explains how previously proven and effective methods can be implemented in home-tutoring situations, as well as in school.
Learning and Learning Difficulties: A Handbook for Teachers
Acer Press | 2004 | ISBN: 0864317697 | 192 pages | PDF | 12 MB
This outstanding new teacher resource from bestselling author Peter Westwood explores a variety of learning processes, theories and concepts in order to help educators better understand and distinguish between the causes and outcomes of student learning problems.
Westwood aims to show that problems in learning are not all due to weaknesses within students or their lack of motivation. Many learning difficulties are created or exacerbated by environmental, not personal, influences. Factors that have an impact on a student’s learning environment can be readily modified or improved, whereas weaknesses or ‘deficits’ within students are not so easily changed.
Lick Library - Technical Difficulties
DVD5 | 2008 | DVD video | MPEG2 | 720x480 | 29.970 fps | AC-3, 192 Kbps Language: English | Run Time: 60 minutes | 2.43 GB
Pete begins by demonstrating this with hand-to-hand accenting, double strokes and flams then moves onto more advanced odd grouping ideas which are in turn applied to double pedal phrasing, open-handed hi-hats, inverted double strokes, Moeller single strokes, and many more vocabulary expanding concepts.
Teaching Mathematics to Middle School Students with Learning Difficulties (What Works for Special-Needs Learners)
Engliish|2006 | ISBN: 1593853068 | 178 pages | PDF | 12 MB
A highly practical resource for special educators and classroom teachers, this book provides specific instructional guidance illustrated with vignettes, examples, and sample lesson plans. Every chapter is grounded in research and addresses the nuts and bolts of teaching math to students who are not adequately prepared for the challenging middle school curriculum. Presented are a range of methods for helping struggling learners build their understanding of foundational concepts, master basic skills, and develop self-directed problem-solving strategies. While focusing on classroom instruction, the book also includes guidelines for developing high-quality middle school mathematics programs and evaluating their effectiveness.
This tutorial is ideal for all drummers that feel constrained by standard 'lick'-based drumming patterns, and wish to expand their vocabulary across the barlines and trough different rhythm subdivisions. It is also ideal for more elementary drummers that wish to approach their instrument in a more complex manner as early as possible.