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More on ‘Why Don’t Students Like School?’


Come and share your ideas about teaching and learning next week when Celia Reaves, of the Psychology Department, will facilitate the second of the Teaching & Creativity Center’s set of conversations on the book Why Don’t Students Like School? A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions about How the Mind Works and What It Means for Your Classroom.

The conversations will focus on Chapter 2, “How Can I Teach Students the Skills They Need When Standardized Tests Require Only Facts?” and Chapter 3, “Why Do Students Remember Everything That’s on Television and Forget Everything I Say?”

All faculty and staff are invited to the event, which will take place from noon to 12:50 p.m. Nov. 3 and from 3:30 to 4:20 p.m. Nov. 4. Both sessions will be in the TCC, Room 315 of the LeRoy V. Good Library.

The book is by Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia. Willingham, well known for his column Ask the Cognitive Scientist in the American Educator, will cap this series of conversations in person with a lecture-workshop at MCC on June 10.

To RSVP for next week’s event, go to <https://web.monroecc.edu/TCC/events>.

A few copies of Willingham’s book remain. If you would like one, contact Gene Marino <mailto:emarino@monroecc.edu>

Gene Marino
Transitional Studies
10/27/2010