{"product_id":"9780972772136","title":"Stopwatch Teacher","description":"If Edith Robertson had played it safe as a teacher, she would have had a classroom like any other, a commonplace career, and over a thousand of her students would have missed out on her wonderful, colorful, innovative teaching methods.\u003cp\u003e* Who said that learning should mean sitting for hours on end while some teacher droned on and on at the front of the class? Not Edith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Who said that the best way to learn grammar was by memorizing and diagramming sentences? Not Edith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Who said that fourth graders can't be responsible enough be in charge of high-tech equipment? Again and again, it wasn't Edith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* Want to teach the times tables? Edith knew that rote memorization was nonsense; people learn by doing, not by abstract thinking. Almost every lesson became a game or an activity of some kind, and everyone was included; every single student was in charge of something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e* The title \"Stopwatch Teacher\" refers to Robertson's ingenious use of a stopwatch (which her student's used), to add the spice of competition to their learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere was a reason Robertson's students came up an average of three grade levels in a single year. Her teaching methods had been addressing the right side of the brain-the silent, creative side that associates knowledge with kinetic muscular movement, and then stores that knowledge away in long term memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdith Robertson tells her story, with nugget after nugget of down home insight and dry humor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robertson Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016810381552,"sku":"9780972772136","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780972772136_p0.jpg?v=1763877236","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780972772136","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}