A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed by Mel Levine Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of A Mind at a Time: America's Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed
Book Review: Learning by exposure
Summary: 5 Stars
Learning is a complex process but Mel Levine makes it easy. Read this book along with the Essential 55.Book Review: Mel Levine is an idiot
Summary: 1 Stars
I found this book to be insulting to children and to educators. This man obviously has no idea what he is talking about, his ideas are strictly from the deficiency model of student underachievement which has been shown to be a faulty method of explanantion. Any educator who reads this book and takes it seriously should be relieved of their jobs ASAP.
In addition, his physical descriptions of his patients are bordering on perverted.
Book Review: Mel Levine opened my eyes and my heart
Summary: 5 Stars
I've read the professional reviews and they are interesting, but as a parent they are glossy and shiny but don't ring with the truth I found in this book. The first time I read a Mel Levine book I cried. Because finally someone understood just what my child FELT. I was also enraged because here was a learned professional espousing what I always knew in my heart to be true but the education system in our rural community was so hopelessly out of date, change of this scope is decades if not centuries away.
But, what this book did give me was a new vocabulary. It opened my eyes to the fact that many teachers are rigid and many simply do not have the resources in the existing structure of the school system to meet the needs of, not only my child, but as many as half the children in their classroom. And in all honesty, some teachers should not be teachers. With luck and perseverence, I MAY be able to influence my child's teachers, but I can not change this system in his lifetime.
What I can do, is change how I talk to my child, how I reinforce their learning in the home, and more importantly how I talk to him about his frustrations in his classroom.
I am my child's best advocate. After reading this book, I was better armed with tools and ideas for addressing my child's educational needs, and my informed input was better received by his educators.
Having a child with "special needs" has no easy cure and will always be a source of anxiety for me. But Mel Levine's books (I've read four of them) help arm me for the on-going fight for his rights as a student.
Book Review: Mel Levine's Medical license has been revoked
Summary: 1 Stars
NC revoked Levine's medical license because there are 51 individuals who have come forward accusing the former Dr of sexually abusing them during his active practice. The former Doctor voluntarily gave up his practice but NC medical board took the step of revoking his right to ever practice medicine again. Please take this into consideration when choosing this book.Book Review: Must Read For Educators & Students (That Means Everyone)
Summary: 5 Stars
Levine examines in more detail the 8 different ways of learning, and how the brain learns in easy to read laymen terms. Students are individuals and they usually learn in the most optimum way in one of, or in a combination of these areas: attention, memory, language, spatial ordering, sequential ordering, motor, higher thinking, and social thinking. But the value of this book comes from Levine's incorporation of scientific research to show readers how these eight neurodevelopmental systems evolve, interact, and contribute to a child's success in school. We've had the endless "theoretical" studies of different learning styles. Levine provides the needed punch: what should the parent and educator "do." Here is the foremost how-to on reshaping the futility of "one-size fits-all" in our educational system, which doesn't tap the true potential, capabilities, and interests of our students. The key for an educator is to not only identify which students learn more conducivley from the eight learning styles, but then tailor course work for them. Student-centered proactive activities that offer more personalization and localization make this easy to do. With one-on-one tutoring and small groups, it's obviously less difficult for an instructor to identify and utilize lesson plans than in a class of 15-20-25 students, obviously.
For students that have been labeled as lazy, unmotivated, or "slow," it is for some students correct. But for many more of them that are tagged with this generalization, it's a misnomer. One that often isn't even uncovered as the student moves through and graduates from the school system.
Another great book in addition to this one is Howard Gardner's "Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences."