Working Memory and Learning: A Practical Guide for Teachers / Edition 1

by Susan Gathercole, Tracy Packiam Alloway

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412936132
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/30/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Tracy Packiam Alloway, Ph D, is a professor of Psychology at the University of North Florida. Formerly, she was the Director of the Center for Memory and Learning in the Lifespan in the UK. She is an expert on working memory and education, and has published over 75 journal articles and books on this topic. She developed the internationally recognized Alloway Working Memory Assessment (Pearson Assessment, translated into 20 languages). She writes a blog for Psychology Today and Huffington Post. She has also provided advice to Fortune 500 companies, like Prudential, as well as the World Bank and BBC.

www.tracyalloway.com

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

'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

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