WHAT STUDY STRATEGIES HELP STUDENTS LEARN?
SELF-CHECK ITEM: Make a list of all the study strategies listed in this section. Explain how you might use each one in your classroom. POSSIBLE ANSWER: • Note taking: I would teach my students to find the main points of different concepts discussed or bullets in my lecture slides, rather than copying everything they see or hear, which is a popular but difficult strategy. • Underlining: I would tell my students to underline only the key sentence of each paragraph, in hopes that they learn to read critically each paragraph. • Summarizing: I would have my students summarize key sections of each chapter they read and prepare their summaries for other students to read and use in preparation of exams. • Writing to learn: I would ask my students to write about their understanding of difficult concepts encountered in each chapter, focusing on clarification of their understanding by writing easily comprehensible sentences that can be understood by others. • Outlining and mapping: Outlining and
