Learning to Learn

 Learning to Learn




'Learning to learn' is the ability to pursue and persist in learning, to organise one's own learning, including through effective management of time and information, both individually and in groups. It’s hard to learn everything, but it’s expected. Teachers want their students to be the very best in everything they teach. 

Learning strategies using the ANSWER method

1. A - Ask, explain and connect

When your students have their notes and textbooks in front of them, they should use this learning method. The “ask, explain and connect strategy” lets your students ask themselves questions about how and why things work. Then they find the answers in their class material. Students have to try to explain and describe ideas with as many details as they can and then connect ideas to their daily life and experiences. This helps the student to understand and explain what they are learning and connect with what they already know. It helps them to organize the new information and makes it easier to recall later.

Remember that how and why questions help to improve a person’s understanding. Students can start by making a list of ideas they need to learn. Then, they go down the list and ask themselves questions about how these ideas work and why. Next, students have to go through their class material again and find the answers to their own questions. Now they can make connections between different ideas and explain to themselves how the ideas are related and work together.

2. Switch

Teach your students to switch between ideas during a single study session for a particular class. This is an effective study method called: interleaving. Don’t let them study one idea, topic or type of problem for too long. Instead, switch between different topics. Switching will highlight and contrast the similarities of differences between topics or types of questions.

So why would it help to learn better? Here’s an idea: if they’re doing problem solving, switching can help them to choose the correct approach. The students don’t stay on one topic too long. They also take a look at the other topics. That means that they can find the solution quicker. Switching allows students to make links between ideas as they shift between them. They know now how the ideas and topics relate to each other. And that’s the key to understanding.

3. Words and visuals

The word and visuals learning strategy is about combining verbal material with visuals. When you teach this way, students have two ways of understanding and remembering the information later on. When you don’t, make sure to explain your students that it might help to draw something with your explanations. Let your students find some images in their course material and let them examine how the words are describing what’s in the image. Then do it the other way around. How does the image represent the text?

Now your students just have to look at the images and explain in their own words what they mean. Then, let them take the words for their class materials and let them draw their own image based on those words. There are different ways to represent information.

4. Examples

In order to get your students to understand something, you should use specific concrete examples. Relevant examples help demonstrate and explain ideas. This helps the student understand them better. It’s also known that the human memory hooks onto concrete information better than abstract information. I’ll show you what this means. Try to look for real life examples your students can relate to. Or let them come up with examples. For example: how would you explain scarcity? It’s an abstract idea and it’s hard to explain just by giving the definition: “Scarcity: the rarer something is, the higher its value gets”. Why is that? Well, definitions are often the explanation af an abstract term, with abstract words. 



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