About Teaching: 4MAT in the Classroom
4MAT Quadrant Handbook and Powerpoint CD
New from About Learning!
This is the ultimate handbook for designing 4MAT units. The 4MAT Quadrant Handbook is a compilation of strategies, best practices, rubrics, scaling criteria and tricks for all four quadrants.
It can be used as a coaching tool and as a refresher workshop for those already practicing and using this instructional design model. It was developed for a special 4-day workshop for Ysleta School District in El Paso, Texas.
Order code: 4QHB Price: $14.95
The Learning Type Measure
The Learning Type Measure (LTM) is one of the most widely used tools in the world for profiling individual approaches to learning. It is an extraordinary tool for maximizing the creative and intellectual potential of your staff. With the LTM's graphic overlay, you'll construct easily interpreted representations of your personal strengths and weaknesses as a learner. It's designed to help managers, trainers and communicators map out strategies for improving individual potential, motivate learners with strategies crafted to their unique learning style, identify situations in which different people function most effectively, profile the strengths and weaknesses of teams. Order Code: LTM Price: (per package of 25) $200.00 The Learning Type Measure Online is available for $10.00.
The 4MAT Parent Book
Understanding Ourselves, Understanding our Children:
A 4MAT Guide for Helping your Child at School and Home
In this guidebook, you will learn how differences in the ways people learn create profound differences in school success, including...
As a bonus, you’ll get an approach to family communication that provides balance in family dynamics.
Order code: PARB Price: $14.95
Teaching Around the 4MAT Cycle
As learning differences become more and more important, educators must find new ways to help enrich instruction and engage students. Teaching Around the 4MAT® Cycle provides a thorough and concise overview of the different learning styles of students and how to accommodate them through instruction. It also offers concrete guidance in how to expand instruction to ensure high levels of student participation.
Gordon Cawelti, a leading voice in education describes Teaching Around the 4MAT Cycle as “one of the very few well thought-out and research based approaches to teaching and learning. Teachers can rely on the strategies in this book to give diverse students a challenging set of learning experiences that will benefit students now and in the future."
Order code: TATC Price: $34.95
Teacher/Parent Intro to Learning Styles
This special classroom kit has been designed for teachers to have a conversation with parents about 4MAT and the learning preferences of their children. Included in the kit are the following items from About Learning:
Order code: TPLSB Price: $129.40 Teacher/Student Intro to Learning Styles
This special classroom kit has been designed for teachers to have a conversation with students about 4MAT and their learning preferences. Included in the kit are the following items from About Learning:
Order code: TSLSB Price: $211.95 Traveling the Natural 4MAT Cycle
About Learning introduces the Natural Cycle of Learning Tutorial entitled Traveling the 4MAT Natural Cycle, This new interactive tool brings training participants beyond the idea of individual differences by demonstrating how learning styles fit within the larger framework of how people learn. Participants will use this tool to experience the four points of the Learning Cycle and how they all must be honored for learning to be truly successful. This product includes 25 tutorials along with a 25 pack of the Learning Type Measure assessments.
Order code (with the LTM-package of 25): LTM/TNC Price $225.00
Guide to 4MAT and Related Research
The 4MAT Research Guide is a detailed synopsis of all research, articles and dissertation which have been published on 4MAT. Each listing includes: 1) title, 2) author, 3) publication name, and 4) a brief abstract. Includes references to both 4MAT and related research. Also includes a lengthy theoretical perspective on the origins of the 4MAT model, including one section on right and left mode processing and one on learning styles.
This book is available in either a printed format or as a pdf on a cd-rom.
Order code: RSCH for Book Price: $35.00
Order code: RSCH-CD for Book on CD-ROM Price: $15.00
LessonBank on CD
About Learning is pleased to introduce a new CD compilation of its turnkey 4MAT Unit Plan collection for Middle School and High School teachers. This collection includes seventeen complete unit plans, with twelve History units, three English Literature units and one Science unit. These unit plans include everything a teacher needs to deliver these instructional units over a 1-3 week timeframe, including full resource lists, worksheets, and step-by-step guidance in how to orchestrate these in the classroom.
Unit plans include: Night by Eli Wiesel, The Cold War, Defining Life, World War II, Absolute Monarchs, Eastern Religions,
Order code: LBCD Price: $15.95
Student Learning Preferences Assessment
Now there’s a way for students to understand how the learning process works with the Student Learning Preferences Survey. This survey is appropriate for middle and high school students and is a wonderful tool for engaging students in a conversation about how they learn.
The SLP includes a simple, self-test instrument for learners to profile their particular approach to learning. It includes information on the different ways people learn along with strategies for helping students become more responsible for learning.
The SLP will help students…
Order code: SLP Price (per package of 25): $115.00
 The Student Learning Preferences Survey Online is available for $10.00..
People who purchased this product also purchased the SLP Presenter Guide.
About Learning
About Learning presents the profound differences in how people learn and how these differences can be combined to create high performance learning programs. Discover the consistent and replicable forces behind all quality learning programs and how to put them to work in a variety of settings.
“This is a book for lovers of learning. Marvelously creative in ideas and format. Exciting, comprehensive and brimming with ideas and insights.”
–Michael Fullan
Order code: ABLE-P Price: $27.95
4MAT Teacher Lesson Plan Book
4MAT Teacher Lesson Plan Book: It will change your plans forever! Order code: 4TPB Price: $21.00
A Note from the Author:
“I created this plan book after being 4MAT trained and as I began to implement this process in my classroom. The 4MAT Method was working great but my materials were all over the place. I needed a tool for organizing my daily lessons in a way that meshed well with the 4MAT Instructional Cycle. I found myself drawing small wheels on my plan book and stuffing handouts and lesson plans into an already bulging spiral binder. So, I decided to create a 4MAT Plan Book to help organize my work.”
This plan book is the ideal replacement for multi subject lesson plan books that many teachers use. With it, teachers can create and track daily lessons and 4MAT units, helping teachers to help monitor how well lessons are addressing the key elements of instruction.
The 4MAT Lesson Planner includes a weekly planner with the 4MAT cycle displayed on the corner of each class period. The teacher can mark where the lesson falls on the wheel for that day. For instance on Monday, a teacher may teach the CONNECT (1R) ATTEND, (1L) and IMAGE (2R) steps of lesson then work on the INFORM (2L) section on Tuesday through Thursday. The 4MAT Planner lets teachers know exactly where they are on the cycle on every day of the week.
The 4MAT Planner also includes a number of other resources for helping teachers master the art of instruction, including:
The "How to create a lesson" section includes sample ENGAGE activities to help teachers better understand how to create a 4MAT unit.
This resource is not only good for teachers, but administrators as well.
Administrators are always seeking to get more time in the classroom to help provide suggestions for teachers on how to improve instructiom. The 4MAT Planner helps teachers understand where teachers are in the insrtructional process and improves their abilty to do effective classroom observations. Teachers and administrators will instantly know on what part of the cycle the teacher is working on any given day.
I sincerely hope you and your colleagues find this instrument as useful as I have. It has made my life a lot easier, and I hope it will help you too!
Sincerely,
Tiffany Lynanne Insalaco SLP Teacher/Parent Presenter Guide
The SLP Presenter's Guide gives teachers, educational professionals or parents a number of tools for teaching people to understand and interpret the results from the Student Learning Preferences Survey. This presenter guide includes a copy of the Student Learning Preferences Survey, a presenter guide for aiding in the interpretation of the instrument and a Power Point show for introducing students to learner differences and the Natural Cycle of Learning. Successful Meetings Poster
What do each of the Learner Types prefer in a meeting setting? Type One’s need to discuss feelings and have trouble with an insensitive leader. Type Two’s like on-task meetings but struggle with spontaneous brainstorming. Type Three’s prefer meetings with closure and action and have difficulty with forays into personal issues. Type Four’s like creative, innovative discussions but struggle with rigid adherence to set dates and timelines. The most important point is that each participant offers a unique and valuable contribution. Addressing the needs of all in meetings using the 4MAT Cycle will make every meeting more successful: from Feelings to Facts to Action to Vision. Full size 24x36 Order code: POSTMEET Price: $16.95 4MAT Lesson Planning Kit
Leadership Behavior Inventory
Explore the different ways people manage and lead with the Leadership Behavior Inventory (LBI). The Leadership Behavior Inventory is a 14-point, self-administered survey for assessing the degree to which leaders incorporate different aspects of leadership into their management methods.
The LBI is designed to help individuals analyze the patterns of behavior that are most characteristic of their leadership style. It is ideal for a host of training applications, including management skills, teaming, leadership programs, personal development and “the learning organization.”
Order code: LBI Price (per copy): $12.65
The Leadership Behavior Inventory is available online for $10.00.
4MAT Children's Literature SeriesAbout Learning offers a booklet of twenty new 4MAT units for teaching Children's Literature. These units cover a variety of childhood themes, including coping, memory, understanding differences, belonging, courage and identity. These themes were drawn from twenty award-winning books on which these unit plans are based. All twenty units were authored by Bernice McCarthy, developer of the 4MAT Method of Instruction.
The Children's Literature Series may be purchased as a complete bundle of 20 units or individually below.
Order code for Complete Children's Literature Bundle: KLCB Price: $72.00
Hemispheric Mode Indicator
With the explosion of research on the positive effects of brain-based learning it’s essential for trainers to understand how to develop training strategies that are more compatible with how the brain learns. Research shows that there are two different hemispheric functions and that effective training uses both types of processing strategies, both right mode and left mode. Commonly referred to as right- and left-brain approaches to learning, these two very different functions can form a powerful basis for improving classroom instruction.
And now you can measure individual preferences for these two very different processing methods with the Hemispheric Mode Indicator.
The HMI is a 32-unit self-scoring survey that identifies your preference for either right or left brain processing. Designed for easy scoring and administration, the HMI can be administered in less than 10 minutes. Includes a detailed description of right and left mode characteristics.
Order Code: HMI Price: (per package of 25) $115.00
The Visual Explorer: Educator's Edition
The Visual Explorer: Educator's Edition is a collection of over 300 high-quality images that help teachers connect learning to students in new and innovative ways. The Visual Explorer is the ideal tool for helping teachers of all levels increase the quality of instruction with visual images and metaphors. All images were carefully chosen to deal with a wide range of topics and to support prominent concepts in education. The images are categorized into a number of groups, including: Courage, Communication, Celebration, Diversity, Earth and Sky, Patterns, Relationships, Signs and Symbols, Solitude, Symmetry and Technology. These concepts were drawn from curriculum standards in Art, Literature, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.
To support teaching of these key concepts, images are grouped into fifteen different sets. Each set includes between twelve to eighteen images along with 10 suggested classroom activities. These activities are appropriate for students of all ages and support a variety of classroom activities including: high level discussions, research tasks, independent project work and more! Set includes images and Teacher's Reference Guide.
8.5"x11" size Order code: VISEXP Price: $395.00
NEW SIZE! Due to requests from the field, we are pleased to offer a smaller size version of
The Visual Explorer: Educator's Edition. The new images are 5.5"x4.25" making them more portable and easier to work with at training tables. The quantity and quality of the images remain the same and the very useful Teacher's Reference Guide is included. If this smaller set would fit your needs and your budget, please order this version.
5.5"x4.25" size Order code: VISEXP-SM Price: $265.00
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4MAT in Action on CD: Lesson Plans for Applying 4MAT Experience the latest advancements in 4MAT lesson planning with 4MAT in Action. Brilliant, ready-made 4MAT lessons at your disposal. In one, easy-to-use volume. 4MAT in Action contains sixty-seven exemplary 4MAT units from all subjects and grade levels; including Primary, Intermediate, Middle School, High School, Community College and Post-Secondary. An invaluable resource for any 4MAT practitioner. Specific unit plan examples include: A Man for All Seasons, Action Verbs, Adaptation, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, Descriptive Language, Elasticity in Economics, Gender Stereotypes, Graphing Functions, Maximum/Minimum Value.
Order code: ACT/CD Price: $10.50
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