9781620363164-162036316X-Teach Students How to Learn

Teach Students How to Learn

ISBN-13: 9781620363164
ISBN-10: 162036316X
Edition: 1
Author: Saundra Yancy McGuire
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 260 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781620363164
ISBN-10: 162036316X
Edition: 1
Author: Saundra Yancy McGuire
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Paperback 260 pages

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Teach Students How to Learn (ISBN-13: 9781620363164 and ISBN-10: 162036316X), written by authors Saundra Yancy McGuire, was published by Routledge in 2015. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Education & Reference (Higher & Continuing Education, Instruction Methods, Schools & Teaching) books. You can easily purchase or rent Teach Students How to Learn (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Education & Reference books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $6.27.

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Miriam, a freshman Calculus student at Louisiana State University, made 37.5% on her first exam but 83% and 93% on the next two. Matt, a first year General Chemistry student at the University of Utah, scored 65% and 55% on his first two exams and 95% on his third―These are representative of thousands of students who decisively improved their grades by acting on the advice described in this book.

What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple, straightforward strategies to use, they can significantly increase their learning and performance.

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 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.

The methods she proposes do not require restructuring courses or 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 think critically and take responsibility for their own learning.

Saundra McGuire takes the reader sequentially through the ideas and strategies that students need to understand and implement. First, she demonstrates how introducing students to metacognition and Bloom’s Taxonomy reveals to them the importance of understanding how they learn and provides the lens through which they can view learning activities and measure their intellectual growth. Next, she presents a specific study system that can quickly empower students to maximize their learning. Then, she addresses the importance of dealing with emotion, attitudes, and motivation by suggesting ways to change students’ mindsets about ability and by providing a range of strategies to boost motivation and learning; finally, she offers guidance to faculty on partnering with campus learning centers.

She pays particular attention to academically unprepared students, noting that the strategies she offers for this particular population are equally beneficial for all students.

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.

This book is written primarily for faculty but will be equally useful for TAs, tutors, and learning center professionals. For readers with no background in education or cognitive psychology, the book avoids jargon and esoteric theory.

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