Teach Students How to Learn

Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation

Saundra Yancy McGuire, Stephanie McGuire

• Publisher: Stylus Publishing
• Year: 2015
• eBook ISBN: 9781620363188
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Higher Education

"Teachers need to learn as much as their students. In a masterly and spirited exposition, spangled with wit and exhortation, rife with pragmatic strategies, Saundra McGuire teaches teachers how to awake in their students the powers dormant in them. Be aware, and you will learn!"--Roald Hoffmann, 1981 Nobel Laureate in ChemistryFor over a decade Saundra McGuire has been acclaimed for her presentations and workshops on metacognition and student learning because the tools and strategies she shares have enabled faculty to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success. This book encapsulates the model and ideas she has developed in the past fifteen years, ideas that are being adopted by an increasing number of faculty with considerable effect.Co-published with NISOD and NADE

Table of contents

• Cover
• Praise for Teach Students How to Learn
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Saundra’s Journey: From Traditional Instructor to Academic Transformer
• 2. Why Don’t Our Students Already Know How to Learn?
• 3. Metacognition: What It Is and How It Helps Students Become Independent Learners
• 4. The Power of Teaching Bloom’s Taxonomy and the Study Cycle to Students
• 5. Metacognitive Learning Strategies at Work
• 6. Mindset Matters
• 7. Connections Between Motivation, Emotions, and Learning
• 8. What Faculty Can Do to Boost Motivation, Positive Emotions, and Learning
• 9. What Students Can Do to Boost Motivation, Positive Emotions, and Learning
• 10. Partnering With Your Campus Learning Center
• 11. Teaching Learning Strategies to Groups
• 12. Teaching Unprepared Students
• Epilogue: Experiment and Have Fun!
• Appendix A: Compilation of Strategies for Students
• Appendix B: Books and Web Links Recommended for Students
• Appendix C: Compilation of Strategies for Instructors
• Appendix D: Resources for Presenting Learning Strategies to Groups
• Appendix E: Learning Strategies Inventory
• Appendix F: Dramatic Individual Student Improvement
• Appendix G: Selected Student Feedback
• Appendix H: Slides From Chemistry Presentation
• Appendix I: An Advanced Placement Physics Class
• References
• About the Authors
• Index
• Also available from Stylus
• Back Cover