Textbook Reading: An Experience with Intelligence

by Roberta Schacher

Overview

If you have ever struggled while learning from textbooks, this book will demonstrate how that struggle is an intelligent part of the learning process. The author uses a short story to illustrate how the mind and emotions can work together to learn with confidence. Part II of the book explains how the reader can profit from the presence of anxiety, confusion, frustration and boredom while reading and solving the problems of learning. One result is an improvement in your abilities to find and solve the problems that are in your way. But the biggest benefit is the experience of knowing your own intelligence. When you have finished the book, you will know how intelligent people think.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150724099
Publisher:	Perisseia Publishing
Publication date:	10/31/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Roberta Kern Schacher, MS
a resident of Athens, GA, is a long time teacher of learning skills and co-producer of calmIT, a seminar that provides a structured approach to problem solving under stress. For thirteen years, she privately coached adults in Seattle, WA to logically think through what they were trying to learn. Her clients came away from this instruction with improved confidence. They learned that they could trust their own problem solving strategies if their minds were trained to think logically, and that it is not always necessary to memorize other people�s strategies when your own may work just as well, or even better, under stress.

In this book Roberta explains how these strategies can be applied to textbook reading, turning what is sometimes a dull and difficult task into �an experience with intelligence.�

Editorial Reviews

Textbook Reading: An Experience with Intelligence is so fascinating that I could not put it down until I had read the last page. It presents information about the use of internal dialogue in technical readings, emphasizing the importance of retraining many students' reading skills and how to use emotions productively for learning.

Book Review - Arthur Whimbey

This book was introduced to our first year nursing students. It offers a "new" way of approaching reading material. Our students became aware of their lack of concentration when reading textbooks and noticed that their concentration and retention of content improved in the immediate 24 hours following the study session using this approach. These experiences were reported spontaneously. The students enjoyed reading this book and wished they had read it earlier.

Book Pilot - Penny Heaslip

I found myself in this book. I know that I should read to understand, not to just finish an assignment. I had to drop Physics. Now I am eager to get home and read a chapter I didn't understand and was bored with.

Jane Drabek - college student