2) The book gave an idea of when students can't write or underline in a text book to use a separate sheet of paper in order to use the coding symbols found on pg. 173. Some teachers use stick notes in order to mark the passages in the text.
3) The purpose of study strategies is to help foster independent learning. Content teachers have the academic knowledge to identify important concepts that need to be learned and they help develop the background information needed to show students the connection between things.
1) Transparencies are a great way to allow students to reinforce the activities of highlighting and underlining. It allows the students to practice without writing in their books since most can't anyway. The activity can be both an individual or cooperative lesson. The students can even turn this into a presentation format to present to the class if they were assigned a particular chapter or something.
2) I would like to implement student-generated elaborations. These allow the students to create the study materials and they are more engaged with the process and the material they are trying to learn. The students need the engagement in order to comprehend and remember the information they are trying to learn. There are a variety of forms that can be used.
1) Study strategies are very important to possess. Many times we go through school without any and become more focused on how to study rather than what to study. What are some ways we can get middle school students more prepared for high school or high school students more readily prepared for college? How can we implement this in our schools?
Oh, studying is so important even at the youngest ages. Students study spelling and yet they are probably studying the words in the wrong manner. They study math facts and probably they are only using one method to study. Teachers HAVE to learn how to study and with what strategies to use and then teach BOTH the parents and the students the techniques for studying. One stress should be the use of the strategies while reading to be personalized and used to study the content. Another stress should be time management and studying. Studying is not cramming the night before. Another stress should be the multiple ways of going over a content area by using different modalities increases the comprehension. Studying must be taught and modeled frequently.
ReplyDeleteStudy techniques start in the classroom with utilization of strategies in the reading and writing process. Studying includes writing to have the reader put the ideas into his/her own words. Studying is personalization of the content so the school brain and the world brain connect and merge. Studying is not easy and takes time to model and learn. Then the teacher must write tests that makes the student have to study and not rely on only memorization.