Module 7:
Teaching Students How to Learn - Available Now!
Product Overview
Module 7 focuses on techniques for teaching students who to learn and
study effectively in a college environment. Topics include teaching students
to study effectively and teaching to accommodate good study habits, teaching
students to utilize learning resources, teaching students how to learn,
teaching students how to research effectively, and teaching professional
skills. The sections included in this module are as follows:
Section 1: Faculty Support for Effective
Study Skills
Section 1 reviews the ways in which adults learn, including different
information processing styles adults use to process new information, different
learning styles adults use to learn information, and different decision
making and organizational preferences adults tend to be in their learning
process.
Section 2: Effective Utilization of
Learning Resources
Section 2 discusses the strategies for using the various resources available
for both faculty and students to improve their learning skills and effectiveness.
These strategies include how to introduce and teach students to effectively
utilize textbook and the many resources that often accompany the course
textbook, how to effectively utilize the many publisher resources outside
of the textbook such as CD-ROMs and publisher Web sites, and how to utilize
the various online resources freely available to students in higher education.
Section 3: Teaching Students How to
Learn
Section 3 focuses on how instructors can help students develop critical
thinking strategies required for success in both their academic endeavors
as well as their professional careers.
Section 4: Developing Research Skills
Section 4 begins with a discussion of the purpose and benefits of teaching
students effective research skills in the classroom. Research is both
an essential skill required for career success as well as a significant
learning tool for the academic environment.
Section 5: Teaching Professional Skills
Workplace employers commonly voice their desire for academic institutions
to prepare their students not only in programmatic knowledge and skills
required for the workplace, but also in the many professional skills equally
essential for career success. Section 5 defines these professional skills
as described by employers and provides faculty with general strategies
for assisting their students in developing the skills in areas in which
they need improvement.
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