Description: Module 7 focuses on techniques for teaching students who to learn and study effectively in a college environment. Topics include teaching students to study effectively and teaching to accommodate good study habits, teaching students to utilize learning resources, teaching students how to learn, teaching students how to research effectively, and teaching professional skills.
This course is available for 90 days from point of purchase. Table of Contents: Section 1: Faculty Support for Effective Study Skills
Section 1 reviews the ways in which adults learn, including different information processing styles adults use to process new information, different learning styles adults use to learn information, and different decision making and organizational preferences adults tend to be in their learning process.
Section 2: Effective Utilization of Learning Resources
Section 2 discusses the strategies for using the various resources available for both faculty and students to improve their learning skills and effectiveness. These strategies include how to introduce and teach students to effectively utilize textbook and the many resources that often accompany the course textbook, how to effectively utilize the many publisher resources outside of the textbook such as CD-ROMs and publisher Web sites, and how to utilize the various online resources freely available to students in higher education.
Section 3: Teaching Students How to Learn
Section 3 focuses on how instructors can help students develop critical thinking strategies required for success in both their academic endeavors as well as their professional careers.
Section 4: Developing Research Skills
Section 4 begins with a discussion of the purpose and benefits of teaching students effective research skills in the classroom. Research is both an essential skill required for career success as well as a significant learning tool for the academic environment.
Section 5: Teaching Professional Skills
Workplace employers commonly voice their desire for academic institutions to prepare their students not only in programmatic knowledge and skills required for the workplace, but also in the many professional skills equally essential for career success. Section 5 defines these professional skills as described by employers and provides faculty with general strategies for assisting their students in developing the skills in areas in which they need improvement. |
