Revealing Minds is a practical, hands-on guide to assessing learning problems, based on the approach of All Kinds of Minds, the groundbreaking nonprofit institute co-founded by Mel Levine. Whereas most assessments of struggling learners focus on what is broken within a student and needs to be fixed, All Kinds of Minds has adopted a more positive and comprehensive approach to the process. Rather than labeling children or categorizing them into certain pre-defined groups, their optimistic and helpful path creates a complete picture (or profile ) of each student, outlining the childs assets along with any weaknesses, and identifying specific breakdown points that lead to problems at school.
The process of assessment should be able to answer a question such as, Why is my son struggling with reading? with a better answer than, Because he has a reading disability. Revealing Minds shows how to discover hidden factorssuch as language functioning, memory ability, or attention controlthat are impeding a students learning. It goes beyond labels and categories to help readers understand what's really going on with their students and create useful learning plans.
Providing scores of real-life examples, definitions of key terms, helpful diagrams, tables, and sample assessments, Pohlman offers a useful roadmap for educators, psychologists, and other professionals to implement the All Kinds of Minds approach in their own assessments.
