EDUA 5795 Guide to Teaching Study Skills
STUDY SMARTER, NOT HARDER: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TEACHING STUDY SKILLS
Effective study skills are essential to student success at every grade level. Students must know how to identify what to study, develop a study plan, and implement effective study tactics to succeed in school with limited support from teachers or curriculum. Additionally, researchers have found that many of the study methods that are taught in schools are ineffective and do not advance learning or memory retention (Dunlosky, 2013).
This course is designed to build a teacher’s pedagogical approaches to teaching study skills that increase student independence, retention, and confidence and provides the teacher with practical, scientifically based best practices grounded in cognitive science and educational research. After finishing this course, the teacher will be able to integrate explicit study instruction within his or her existing curriculum in order to build students’ skills for academic success and lifelong learning.