Books : A Mind at a Time

by: Mel Levine  Average Rating:
Product Description:

Recognizing each child's intellectual, emotional, and physical strengths--and teaching directly to these strengths--is key to sculpting 'a mind at a time,' according to Dr. Mel Levine. While this flashing yellow light will not surprise many skilled educators, limited resources often prevent them from shifting their instructional gears. But to teachers and parents whose children face daily humiliation at school, the author bellows, 'Try harder!' A professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Levine eloquently substantiates his claim that developmental growth deserves the same monitoring as a child's physical growth.
Rating: - A page at a time
I bought this book because I saw Dr. Mel Levine speak at a conference recently. He is an excellent speaker with really intriguing theories; many of which he details in the book "A Mind at a Time."
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Rating: - Good reading to understand how a mind works
The book illustrates how the mind of a child works and learns. It is clear and well written and can be also entertaining. It applies to children with or without learning disabilities. The main thesis is that for better or worse, everybody is afflicted by a learning disability, even if that can be minor and didn't give rise to any problem at school. Defects can be unnoticeable and go undetected. Sometimes those problems lies in unexpected places. We can develop, consciously or unconsciously, strategies ... Read More

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Rating: - 1
I do not usually write reviews in Amazon.com as I am not really comfortable with the English language. I am not an expert either as Mr. Daniel T. Willingham the reviewer below. I am writing this because I think the review by Mr. Willingham is unfair toward Mr. Levine and his book. Mr. Willingham mentions how Mr. Levine gets a great many things wrong,(when he mentions only two points that are connected) as if cognitive psychology gets all things right and is the yardstick for theorizing for the brain. I ... Read More