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Reviewed by Sefina Hawke for Readers' Favorite
The Hand in the Back of the Room (Connecting School Work to Real Life) by Dr. Byron L Ernest is a non-fiction education book that would appeal most to a mixed audience of young adults and adults who are or have an interest in the field of education, child care, or psychology. This book is designed to teach people how to improve learning in a school environment through connecting education to real life. It has been proven that a student’s understanding of a school topic is increased when the concept is taught in a real world context. All students are taught basic science, but not all students are taught the ways in which what they are learning have a context outside of a school environment. By changing this, a student’s level of achievement and understanding of the topic could be expected to be increased.
As an after school counselor, I personally found The Hand in the Back of the Room by Dr. Byron L Ernest to be an interesting book with an innovative approach to education that makes perfect sense. When I was a student, there were topics that I just focused on getting through, and then I would forget them because I could not see how the information could serve me later in life. If a teacher had taught those topics the way that Dr. Byron L Ernest suggests, I feel I would have been much more willing to retain the knowledge. As an after school counselor, I believe that I can use some of the author’s methods in working with the children in my group to help them to better understand their school work and to give their work more attention. I feel that this book should be mandatory reading for all teachers!
