Mediated Learning: Teaching, Tasks, and Tools to Unlock Cognitive Potential

"Teachers are often told to improve students' problem-solving abilities, but this is a book that explains HOW a teacher can go about that task. The authors teach the practitioner how to recognize dysfunctions in cognition, and provide strategies for helping students become independent learners."
"A practical primer par excellence for teachers who want to implement the principles of Reuven Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Experience. A multitude of easy-to-implement suggestions for the use of Mediated Learning empowers teachers to transform even the most challenged students into more effective thinkers and learners."
"Offers a host of important intervention techniques to increase student motivation and improve problem-solving skills, and is a recommended pick for any college-level teaching or education collection. The inclusion of worksheets makes for a practical resource, offering reproducible fill-in checkpoints for success."

Foreword by Reuven Feuerstein
Preface
Acknowledgments
Publisher's Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part I. Metalearning: Structural Cognitive Modifiability
1. Unlocking Cognitive Potential
Part II. Metateaching: Mediated Learning Experience
2. Intentionality and Reciprocity
3. Meaning
4. Transcendence
5. Competence
6. Self-Regulation and Control of Behavior
7. Sharing
8. Individuation
9. Goal Planning
10. Challenge
11. Self-Change
12. Search for the Optimistic Alternative
13. Sense of Belonging
Part III. Metacognition: Cognitive Functions and Dysfunctions
14. Input
15. Elaboration
16. Output
Part IV. Metatask: Cognitive Map
17. Analyzing the Task
Resource A: Answers to Work Pages
Resource B: Rating Scale
Resource C: Glossary
References
Index

Mandia Mentis is an educational psychologist and senior lecturer in the Special Education and Educational Psychology Programmes at Massey University, New Zealand. She is an accredited trainer of Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) and the Learning Potential Assessment Device (LPAD), having completed her training at the International Centre for Learning Enhancement in Israel under Reuven Feuerstein. Over the past 20 years, she has run Instrumental Enrichment (FIE) workshops with the Cognitive Research Centre in South Africa and with the Australasian Institute for Learning Enhancement in New Zealand. She has contributed extensively to research projects and publications and has co-written and published two books on Mediated Learning and Instrumental Enrichment. Mentis taught at primary, secondary, and tertiary levels and has worked as an educational psychologist in both special and inclusive education settings. Her teaching and research interests include cognitive assessment, teaching for diversity, and e-learning. Her doctoral research focuses on developing effective e-learning communities of practice.

Features an expanded discussion of mediated learning and includes case studies, reflective activities for the reader, and in-depth coverage of metacognition, metalearning, metateaching, and metatasking.