The Cognitive Enrichment Advantage Minilessons

The Cognitive Enrichment Advantage Minilessons is a supplement to The Cognitive Enrichment Advantage Teacher Handbook. The book includes essential information for teachers using The Cognitive Enrichment Advantage Educational Approach to help their students learn how to learn. The Minilessons book is designed somewhat like a recipe book, providing information teachers can adapt to their students needs. Each Minilesson provides in-depth information about a specific learning need that is an essential part of a Building Block of Thinking (one of 12 cognitive processes) or a Tool of Learning (one of 8 affective-motivational processes) included in the CEA approach. The book has 229 Minilessons that teachers use to help students understand various aspects of each Building Block and Tool and to help students build personal learning strategies so they can learn more effectively. Minilessons also help teachers guide students to Bridge their knowledge as they discuss strategies they can use in home, school, work and social settings outside the lesson. Additional Minilessons help teachers share information about general learning concepts that are part of the approach and focus attention on the often hidden rules of how to be an effective student.