- MY JOURNEY
I was once in your shoes
How to learn a subject always a big question for me at my university. I
Remember the first semester with a lot of Cs,Ds even Fs which is the worst terrible moment in my life. I who are a great student with the highest grade in high school suddently confused with myself. Follow some advice of the previous bad studend that we must not to do anthing else until the last night before exams. In this night we will study with high pressure and all the knowledge of semesters will easily put into our head. Another advice is going to the crash memorization coures which are sumerize and give students all they need to know before exams and booms one night to remember all of them. They give me a beatiful future about the powerful material which absolutely help me to achive any grade I want.
I don’t do anything else, go to the club and a mount of party with new friends I have met in my university.
And the dream comes true, I very glad to recive my grade in the board. My teacher so pround of me because I got the top 10 grade of my class.
It’s not true never never and never happened
- WHY DON’T ALL STUDENTS ALREADY KNOW HOW TO LEARN?
Why teach in Highschool always need a review before the final test and told to their children that this class is vitally important nobody would not allow to cancel this class.
- They do not need to put more effort in order to make As and Bs in Highschool
- They believe that they could not smart in any way because most their score always be the top 10 of their class.
Your limitation in ability is your limitation in your imagination.
Fixed Mindset while learning at Highschool. they oversmart so dont need to put any change or effort to become master in university
Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset
- METACOGNITION
- What its metacogition ?
Thinking about your own thinking. A giant brain outside of your brain.
Learning process in real life (student, collegue)
- From Finding Fault to Accepting Respnsibility
First of all, you should be awear of the fault comes from you and only you. Awearness is not to blame yourself but it is the first step to improve yourself. Be awear of your weakness.
The Goal
It comes to the goal which is often misconceptable in the start of the learn stategie. We set a goal too far we can not did it. We set a easy goal we do not have enough motivate to finish this goal.
The goal of test is assess your ability to applyzing to a new problem we could meet in the real life or different cases.
The goal is misunderstanding is test your rememberizing ability.
- THE POWER OF BLOOM’S TAXONOMY AND THE STUDY CYCLE
| Studying | Learning |
| Memorize | Understand |
| Short – term | Long – term |
| In the last night before exams | On the class |
| Less effort | More effort |
| Only focus on what | Research on How, Why, What if |
| Can’t recreat | Can creat by our own way |
I actual think that learn is remember all things we read in books before I read this book. Sometimes, I forget everything after exams and I really surprise by myself when I meet what I’ve study a week ago. I finding a stategie to actual learn everything not just remember them.I think we could find out the best way to learn by our self which is truly learn not just study. We couldn’t to work harder but smarter in this way.
MAKE AN A MODE OR TEACH THE MATERIAL
Six levels to learn anything.
If you want to understanding something you have to remembering this. The concept of this hirachies is to achieve the higher level you have to pass the lower one.
In the first of semmester, you should preview your subject. Because your brain intentionly fill all the gap of your knowledge better than stay focus on what it doesn’t understand anything
Attend class give you a golden opportunities to asking your professionals, discussing with your friend, follow up your circumstance. Some of information will not appear in the lecture notes
After that, you should review in a 5-10 minutes as soon as possible. Our brains will forget almost information in 30-45 minutes lectures and you should do it before the information leak out through your ears. Reviewing will fill your gaps while listening professor teaching and use active recalling in this period.
| Time | |
| Goal | 5mins |
| Active task | 25 mins |
| Break-time | 10 mins |
| Review | 10 mins |
Figure 1. Intense Study Session
- METACOGNITIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES AT WORK
Ten stategies to optimize your academic performance
ACTIVE READING, STEP 1: Previewing
Your brain intentionly fill gaps of your knowledge when it realize familiar with knowledge better than the first time heard about it.
ACTIVE READING, STEP 2: Previewing on Steroids
Ask questions to keep your movitation in reading materials. Looking for the answer your question will put you forward.
ACTIVE READING STEP 3: Parapharasing the Correct Way
Before learning the next paragraph, reviewing the previous one by fold it and summerize it into 1-3 sentences. By this methods, you will connect paragraph one by one into chunks and catch your line until the end. Save time, effortively and continous
STEP 4: You could use Flash cards, maps, outlines to systematic your knowledge and enhance your memorizing
STEP 5: Use the textbook. The cursed of knowledge. When your professor teaching they will use their already known knowledge about this topic to tell you some of them in lecture but some of them doesn’t. You could find some parts doent apear in the lecture in the textbook.
Use apedix and table of content in the textbook to find a small information and heading of each chater if you want to.
STEP 6: Go to class and choose T zone sheet in the class. The envoriment with your friend will give you more energy and motivation than study alone. Choose a T zone slot will give you oppotuity to face off your teacher and increse your chance ask question, attention of your teacher and take more responsibility in this class.
STEP 7: Learn by doing excersice or homework.
Firstly, You have to do this homework by your own thinking after that check your only the final answer. Do it until it corrects and open the solutions and analyzing this methods with yours. This is called deep learning
STEP 8: Learn as you have to teach someone
While teach someone, your ideas was recreating by your own thinking and of course have something corrupt. Be awear of it and fix it is best ways to make it belong to you.
STEP 9: Work in pair/group
More perpective about one problems give more solutions and creation. Learn from the others
STEP 10: Piece a mocking test through homework
Make a test by small pieces homework
- WHY YOUR MINDSET ABOUT INTELLIGENCE MATTERS
Stategy #1: Keep the faith
Stategy #2: Stand in Your power
Stategy #3: Learn the Neurobiogical Basis of the Growth Mindset
Stategy #4: Start Easy, End Strong
- HOW YOUR EMOTIONS AFFECT YOUR MOTIVATION AND LEARNING
Emotion will take part in the circle which made a good result
Three level influence to student’s goal
VALUE. How important do I find this goal ?
NATURE OF THE ENVIROIMENT. Do I feel supported or unsupported ?
BELIEF IN THE ABILITY TO SUCCESS. Do I believe I can design and follow a course of action to meet this goal?
Faculty-Related Obstacles to Student Motivation
The classroom environment is daunting or unsupportive
Faculty expectations are unclear
Students are paralyzed by a sink or swim course structure.
Use syllabus as a road map to guide in a semmester.
Write out all the question of the course and answer it by your own thinking. About time, grade
Go through the syllabus to have big picture of subjects and write all questions. After that answer them with which answer you cant go to school and ask your teacher. Should go to your office more often to receive more information than a normal class.
- WHAT YOU CAN DO TO BOOST YOUR MOTIVATION, POSITIVE EMOTIONS,AND LEARNING
Stategy #1: Use this learning strategy
Stategy #2,3,4 Growth Mindset
Self-talk Positive thought
Atribute result to actions
Stategy #5: Nution Do exercise
DON’T WORK HARD, WORK SMARTER
SLOW AND STEADY
- TIME MANAGEMENT, TEST TAKING, AND STRESS REDUCTION
TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS
- Semester at a Glance
- All activities week at glance
- Say have appointment even you don’t
- Start homework as soon as possible
- Priority need + want
At least 20-25 intense study sessions
- TRY THE STRATEGIES AND HAVE FUN!
| Before | In during | After |
| Creat a Test preparation Teaching to an audience Prepare for types of tests Organize the test chart, outline Make a test | Write down fomular Read carefully Survey the exam Easy to hard Move on the other question Self-talk Good preparation good result | Write down What we did before examsWhat we have done in exams (mistakes) and how and whyWhat would we do to improve the result. |
Different Strategies for Different Class
- Some kind of strategy addopt for a kind of class, another is not so use different strategies for different “enemy”
Commit to Action
- Strategy only a paper and your head. It only usefull when you commit to action and actual action in real life.
TEACH ME HOW TO LEARN strategies you can use to ace any course at any level.
Saundra Yancy McGuire with Strphanie MCGuire (2018)