Books by Karen Tui Boyes

Project Genius: BIG Learning for Young Geniuses.Project based learning is gaining popularity in schools all over the world as a way to engage learners, make learning more meaningful and give students the opportunity to explore something they are passionate about. Project Genius provides a practical, step-by-step guide to implementing Genius Hour in your classroom, fostering opportunities for students to develop ownership, time & resource management, accountability and so much more, all set in a real world context. Project Genius will walk you through: + The 7 steps of Genius Hour, which provide a clear structure and pathway from beginning to end,+ Practice protocols for giving presentations and feedback,+ Solutions to common challenges and ways to assist struggling students,+ Strategies to enroll and engage parents into the process, + The skills and dispositions that will enhance students' lifelong learning, and + Five teacher's perspectives of how this process works and operates in their classrooms, their top tips and advice to get you thinking about possibilities in your classroom. If you want to maximise your students learning, in a real world way, then this book is for you!

Study Strategies to Make Learning Stick Karen Tui Boyes is leading the revolution of assisting students to learn, teachers to teach and advancing anyone's ability to understand the information needed to pass exams. Karen has presented her workshops across five continents, to more than 200,000 audience members, and countless schools. Her Study Skills methods help with exam preparation by teaching simple but strategic learning skills. You'll discover easy ways to: + Incorporate individual learning styles for any kind of test preparation - from drivers license to medical exams; + Be study fit, in mind, and body, so that you are truly ready to pass all your exams; + Improve your reading, focus, and memory, so that your understanding of what you most need to learn is dramatically enhanced. Study Skills for kids, young adults, college students, and anyone committed to life long learning is as necessary now as the lunch pack and school bag. Drawing on advanced cognitive learning styles, psychology, and pedagogy, this is a book that teachers, parents, and students can all take value from.