Learning to learn 2: Study skills

• Studievaardigheden
• Middelbare school
• vmbo, mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2-6

Learning strategies

Which learning strategy do you prefer to use?

Ways of learning

• Reproduction: Memorizing important concepts and rules

• Application 1: Applying learned material in familiar situations

• Application 2: Applying learned material in new situations

• Insight: Addressing a question without context

Reproducing/remembering important concepts and rules

Getallenlijn 

Flashcards

Timeline

• Find/mark the important dates

• Put them in a timeline

Flashcards

• Write on the front what you are going to learn

• On the other side, write the meaning

• Repeat the card more often in case of errors

   WRTS

• Chop the glossary into parts

• Enter words

• Quiz new words + repeat old words

www.wrts.nl 

Applying what you have learned

•Classification

If you need to learn some concepts, divide them into groups that belong together

• Give them an appropriate title

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(RSignposting words

• help to give structure

• Indicate connections

• Separate main and supporting issues

Word Web

• Write down all the words that belong to a topic.

• Connect the words that belong together

Applying learned material in new situations

25 Word Summary

• Read the story carefully

• Mark essentials green

• Highlight unknown ideas blue

• Look up the unknown ideas

• Reduce the main points of the text to a 25-word summary.

Highlight with colours to understand the structure and content of a text:

• Yellow: subheadings and key idea

• Orange: You highlight all examples

• Green: Mark connections as cause-effect

• Blue: Highlight all numbers and units

• Pink: Highlight all (arithmetic) signal words

Approaching a question without context

No explanation is given and you have to figure out how to solve the question yourself

Mindmap practise

Listen to an episode of newsround and mindmap what you have heard

click the link 

Zie website klokhuis, ik kies dan een aflevering met onderwerp geschiedenis, want daar is veel info uit te halen. Bv 'slavernij' of 'Wo2'

Mindmap discussion

Pair/share

- In pairs.

- Compare mind maps with your partner; Are there any similarities?

- Did your neighbour write down any other things?

- Teacher will ask a few pairs to talk about their findings.

Zie website klokhuis, ik kies dan een aflevering met onderwerp geschiedenis, want daar is veel info uit te halen. Bv 'slavernij' of 'Wo2'