Learning How To Learn
The purpose of this program is to teach the student how to learn, how to recognize and overcome his own learning barriers so that he has the ability to understand and use what he is learning about. There are numerous comprehension and learning strategies taught through Learning How To Learn, all of which are aimed at moving the student from passive recipient in the educational process to active partner and then ultimately to independent learner where the student is the gatekeeper of his own knowledge and study, and the teacher or tutor is the guide.
Skills developed include:- Establishing a purpose in learning or studying overall.
- Recognizing and overcoming principal learning barriers.
- Ability to recognize when they are not learning or understanding
what the are reading and tools to fix it. - Ability to model abstract theories.
- Ability to demonstrate relationships in concepts they are reading or
studying about. - Ability to think actively about what they are reading and relate it to
earlier concepts in the text or even other texts that relate. - Ability to monitor their own comprehension and specific tools for
appropriate fix up when they are not. - Vocabulary acquisition with comprehension skills.
- Word defining skills for the use of words in multiple contexts and with
understanding. - Multiple ways to visually represent what they are learning and how to
relate relationships in the text. - How to practice and apply what is being learned.
- Problem solving skills.