3573. Toward Actual Learning in the Classroom and by Remote Teaching

If we teachers want our students would have success at learning and would actually learn, we can help them out by telling them to study in a metacognitive way. 

But what does that mean? 

Basically it’s helping them think. Basically also it’s for example a student who thinks of the way he or she reads, studies and learns. 

The good student does normally know he or she is a good one. He can reflect about the way he or she reads and studies. And they discard what doesn’t work and take up what works. They also use learning strategies. And they are more or less mature. 

And we teachers can teach them or help them read and study. Of course we have to teach and address all our students, from low-achievers to high-achievers. 

We teachers supposedly do know how to read and study. Because we have reached to be teachers. So we can teach our dear students how to read and study. On last posts I’ve also talked about reading techniques. 

As well a good student can come to the front of the classroom or by remote teaching he or she can tell their classmates how they read and study. 

Something also positive is that often we teachers may be super keen on the subject we teach, so we can pass on the lure for learning that subject. 

However, we should not weigh down our dear students too much. We can gently help them read and study, yet we should not tease them with our proposals. Little by little we can achieve these reading and studying goals. 

Metacognitive reading and studying: it consists of doing that work by being aware about how they carry out that work. And remember, taking up what works fine and discarding what doesn’t work. If you have any questions, let me know. Oh, effort and striving are necessary, and these ones may be nice, not necessarily tiresome or disgusting. I took some of the ideas from José Bernardo Carrasco and Gregorio Luri.