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Following up on her acclaimed Teach Students How to Learn, that
describes teaching strategies to facilitate dramatic improvements
in student learning and success, Saundra McGuire here presents
these "secrets" direct to students. Her message is that "Any
student can use simple, straightforward strategies to start making
A's in their courses and enjoy a lifetime of deep, effective
learning." Beginning with explaining how expectations about
learning, and the study efforts required, differ between college
and secondary school, the author introduces her readers, through
the concept of metacognition, to the importance and powerful
consequences of understanding themselves as learners. This
framework and the recommended strategies that support it are useful
for anyone moving on to a more advanced stage of education, so this
book also has an intended audience of students preparing to go to
high school, graduate school, or professional school. In a
conversational tone, and liberally illustrated by anecdotes of past
students, the author combines introducing readers to concepts like
Bloom's Taxonomy (to illuminate the difference between studying and
learning), fixed and growth mindsets, as well as to what brain
science has to tell us about rest, nutrition and exercise, together
with such highly specific learning strategies as how to read a
textbook, manage their time and take tests. With engaging exercises
and thought-provoking reflections, this book is an ideal
motivational and practical text for study skills and first year
experience courses.
For over a decade Saundra McGuire has been acclaimed for her
presentations and workshops on metacognition and student learning
because the tools and strategies she has shared have enabled
faculty to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and
success. The methods she proposes do not require restructuring
courses, nor indeed an inordinate amount of time to teach; they can
often be accomplished in a single session, transforming students
from memorizers and regurgitators to students who begin to thing
critically and take responsibility for their own learning. While
stressing that there are many ways to teach effectively, and that
readers can be flexible in picking and choosing among the
strategies she presents, Saundra McGuire offers the reader a
step-by-step process for delivering the key messages of the book to
students in as little as 50 minutes. Free online supplements
provide three slide sets and a sample video lecture.
Following up on her acclaimed Teach Students How to Learn, that
describes teaching strategies to facilitate dramatic improvements
in student learning and success, Saundra McGuire here presents
these “secrets” direct to students. Her message is that “Any
student can use simple, straightforward strategies to start making
A’s in their courses and enjoy a lifetime of deep, effective
learning.” Beginning with explaining how expectations about
learning, and the study efforts required, differ between college
and secondary school, the author introduces her readers, through
the concept of metacognition, to the importance and powerful
consequences of understanding themselves as learners. This
framework and the recommended strategies that support it are useful
for anyone moving on to a more advanced stage of education, so this
book also has an intended audience of students preparing to go to
high school, graduate school, or professional school. In a
conversational tone, and liberally illustrated by anecdotes of past
students, the author combines introducing readers to concepts like
Bloom’s Taxonomy (to illuminate the difference between studying
and learning), fixed and growth mindsets, as well as to what brain
science has to tell us about rest, nutrition and exercise, together
with such highly specific learning strategies as how to read a
textbook, manage their time and take tests. With engaging exercises
and thought-provoking reflections, this book is an ideal
motivational and practical text for study skills and first year
experience courses.
For over a decade Saundra McGuire has been acclaimed for her
presentations and workshops on metacognition and student learning
because the tools and strategies she has shared have enabled
faculty to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and
success. The methods she proposes do not require restructuring
courses, nor indeed an inordinate amount of time to teach; they can
often be accomplished in a single session, transforming students
from memorizers and regurgitators to students who begin to thing
critically and take responsibility for their own learning. While
stressing that there are many ways to teach effectively, and that
readers can be flexible in picking and choosing among the
strategies she presents, Saundra McGuire offers the reader a
step-by-step process for delivering the key messages of the book to
students in as little as 50 minutes. Free online supplements
provide three slide sets and a sample video lecture.
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