Teaching Study Skills

Sarvesh — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:57:53 +0000

Teachers and children today have a great need for learning about study skills. With rapidly expanding curriculums and mounting pressure on students to compete for higher grades, teaching study skills to students is imperative in order to reduce the burden on them as well as to prevent them from feeling frustrated and defeated.

Using effective study skills helps students develop good study habits, a positive attitude about studies and helps them realize that studying does not have to be dreaded. The methods that are taught as part of the study skills curriculum are not only handy for students but these can be used almost all through adult life as well.

This is why it is mandatory in many Western countries for teachers to learn how to teach study skills and teachers may even have to sit for study skills tests. But the task of teaching study skills to students is also partly the job of parents. Students need to work jointly with their parents and teachers to devise a learning system that best suits them.

The basic purpose of teaching such skills is to make the task of doing homework seem less taxing and more about empowering oneself with information. In addition, study skills helps children build self-esteem and learn to view their studies as a positive experience rather than drudgery. Effective use of study skills will undoubtedly translate into healthy work habits even later on in life and this is something that parents need to understand.

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Study skills checklist

Sarvesh — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:57:45 +0000

There has been a lot of debate on the issue of when these skills need to be taught and there have been many arguments on the issue of should college students study skills. The truth is that it is never too late to use these skills and hence study skills for college students and study skills for high school, both have as much relevance as study skills have at the schooling level.

Learning successful study skills can change your attitude to learning, a change that you will be affected by all through your life. Naturally, this would affect your confidence levels and self-esteem. In Western countries, even teachers are taught about study skills and may have to fill out study skills worksheets to show that they are capable of imparting this information to students.

However, while study skills are useful at every stage of a student’s life, the study skills that a primary school student requires for homework help may differ from the skills that are require at high school or college levels. For instance, a college student may have to be able to take quick and accurate notes and hence may need to acquire specific study skills for note taking which may not be important at the primary school level. The ‘2:6 method’ is an effective note-taking technique, for instance. In this case, students divide the paper into two columns, in the 2:6 ratio approximately. Use one column for taking notes while simultaneously marking out or highlighting important points in the column alongside. This makes referring to notes easier later.

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