This month’s Book of the Month is Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course To Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation.
The book focuses on providing students with powerful learning strategies and techniques that can be incorporated into any course to improve their learning. The author, Saundra Yancy McGuire, a Cornell University alumni, provides research as well as personal experiences from teaching a diverse group of students to help transform students study skills away from memorizing and regurgitating information to learning to think critically and take charge in their own education. McGuire offers the reader a step-by-step process of strategies for students to succeed inside and outside the classroom.
Some Strategies from Teach Students How To Learn:
- Preview and Review for every class
- Start homework the day that it is assigned and do a little of it each day
- Analyze all returned tests and quizzes and development a plan for improvement
- Prioritize according to needs and wants
- Adopt a growth mindset about intelligence
- Monitor your self-talk and stay positive