Use colored index cards or colored paper to represent different sections of the essay. How can I adapt to different learning styles? There are three main types of learning styles: Visual, Audio, and Kinesthetic learning through feeling and movement. It is beneficial to ask your students questions that may indicate their learning style.
Click here for information on teaching students with Dyslexia. Click here for information on working with pre-literate adults. Click here for some ideas for lessons for low level English language learners — scroll to page 86 for a volunteer handbook for teaching English to new learners.
Click here for a list of Tutor Mentors. Feel free to reach out to them to ask questions and discuss challenges. Participate in our quarterly Tutor Meetings! Click here for dates and registration. Click here to request to join our Facebook Tutor Group. Each time you have to work hard to remember something, you strengthen the memory.
You might forget to bring a pen a few times, but each time you forget, you probably make a special effort to remember it the next time. How do the above rules apply to writing? What writing practices give us a false sense of mastery? What practices might give you and your writers more durable learning? How can we help guide writers toward more durable learning? Connect with Highline College.
Toggle Sliding Bar Area. Learning Styles. Learning and Memory About 10 years ago, I learned how to knit. The Rules of Learning We are not good judges of our own learning. Easy learning is stored in working memory, but it rarely makes it into our long term memory. Our most common study methods give us a false sense of mastery. This is related to the first point. This can be frustrating, but in order to move knowledge from our working memory to our long term memory, we need to work for it.
Massed practice does not produce durable learning. Massed practice includes studying a lot right before a test, re-reading material, and highlighting often. While most students believe that studying means reading material over and over again and using lots of highlighting, that is not the most effective way to learn. Reading carefully is great, but reading a textbook chapter several times does not actually improve your knowledge.
This information is stored in your working memory, but only small parts make it into your long term memory.
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