Short Course Learning Skills
By understanding the learning process; you are better able to approach learning in a way that suits you; or the person you are trying to help learn.
Despite the huge amount of attention given to one’s personal education the majority of people don’t devote very much time at all to understanding how you can learn most effectively. The first thing to understand about learning is that the best way to learn is not the same for everyone. In other words we don’t all learn the same information in the same way. It’s simple.
When a child doesn’t perform well at school, often the conventional response was to tell them they need to try hard, listen more, and apply more concentration perhaps – we have told children they just didn’t work hard enough in class. Although this may be true in some cases, this out-dated response to poor performance, whether made by a teacher, parent, or even students themselves, demonstrates serious misunderstandings of how learning takes place. This book sets out to correct such misunderstandings.
If you first understand how different people learn in different ways, you can then set about identifying how specific individuals can learn best and tailor the learning experience to that individual.
An enlightened approach to learning should take every aspect of the learning experience that is available to a person (what, where, when, how and why) into consideration. Any other approach to providing education may decrease the potential outcome that can be achieved.
Any good program of learning must be diverse in every aspect of what is offered, in order to realise the full learning potential of those being taught.
COURSE CONTENT
Lesson 1 HOW PEOPLE LEARN
- Introduction
- Gaining Knowledge
- Applying Established Theories in Teaching and Learning
- Why Do We Need to Know People’s Learning Styles?
Lesson 2 WHAT TO LEARN
- Knowing What to Avoid
- Be Aware of What You Learn
- Valuable Attributes to Learn
- Communication
- Choosing a Child’s School
- Choosing a College or University Course
- Trends in Education
- Distance Education and Changes in the World
- Making the Choice to Study
Lesson 3 WHY LEARN
- The Importance of Learning in Children
- Middle Childhood and Learning
- A Good Foundation is Very Important
- Motivation Helps us Learn
Lesson 4 HOW TO LEARN SUCCESSFULLY
- More Tips for Learning
- Different Learning for Different People
- Setting Effective Learning Goals
- Develop Good Study Habits
- Time Management
- Different Methods of Learning for Top Results
- Methods of Studying (Learning Systems)
- Memory Tips
- Tips for Writing and Essays
- Reading Text Books Effectively
- Taking notes
- Preparing for Exams
- What Is Motivation?
- Understanding motivation
- Incentives
- Get Started!
