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Building strategies
We all have strategies for coping. We might not always be conscious of our own strategies.
A good strategy is to be aware of the different strategies and deliberately choose the best option.
We all have some strategy for learning. Many students are not aware of their own strategy.
The strategy itself can be good or bad.
A strategy may be defined as a plan of attack.
This means that when we talk about academic strategy we talk about how to attack the curriculum.
How are you going to attack what you are supposed to learn?
A good learning strategy is a plan that helps you to prepare, implement and evaluate your own learning efforts.
Students with good strategies learn more because they have a more targeted, appropriate and effective learning.
What makes a good student?
Good strategies for learning
Self-activity
Work plans
Positive attitude
Reflecting on own learning
Checking own learning
Much background knowledge (Read widely!)
Motivation - strong desire to learn
Setting goals
If you hold some of these qualities, you're probably a pretty good student.
To improve your learning abilities, you should check if there are any of these points above that you can improve.
The three main characteristics of a good strategy are:
Set goals
Create work plans and
Control own learning - reflect and evaluate.
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Study strategies and study techniques
Student? Me?
1.1
Instructions
1.2
Your goals?
1.3
Responsibility
Motivation
2.1
Motivation
2.2
Attribution theory and motivation
2.3
Attitude
Independency
3.1
The independent learner
3.2
Learning strategy
3.3
Life-long learning
Academics
4.1
Curiosity and critical openness
4.2
Arguing
Knowledge
5.1
Classifying knowledge
5.2
Bloom's taxonomy
Strategies
6.1
Building strategies
6.2
Learning processes
6.3
Goals and motivation
6.4
Types of goals
6.5
Performance versus learning
6.6
Time management
Reading
7.1
Reading methods
Mnemonics
8.1
Remembrance Systems - mnemonics
8.2
Mental pictures
8.3
Memory and senses
8.4
Mind maps
Styles
9.1
Learning styles
9.2
VARK
9.3
Reflection and metacognition
Excel!
10.1
Study smarter
10.2
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