You are hired to teach a struggling student (Joy) more effective study skills. Describe five different strategies that you will teach Joy so that she can study and learn more effectively. Include at least one strategy that will enable Joy to transfer the things she learns to new situations

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Following are examples of strategies a teacher might teach Joy. The response should include five strategies, including at least one that will enable Joy to transfer academic subject matter to new situations.
• Encourage her to think about what she already knows about the topic and to relate new material to it. (This one should promote meaningful learning and so should also promote transfer.)
• Encourage her to elaborate on what she is learning, perhaps by working with a study partner. (Elaboration should promote transfer.)
• Show her strategies for organizing information (e.g., concept mapping). (To the extent that potential applications are included in the organizational scheme, this one should promote transfer.)
• Teach her mnemonic techniques for learning hard-to-remember facts.
• Give her some strategies for taking good notes (e.g., identifying main ideas, supplementing main points with concrete examples); possibly provide a general format or template that scaffolds these strategies.
• Teach her how to summarize what she is studying.
• Show her how to identify important information in lectures and/or textbooks.
• Give her questions that she should try to answer as she reads and studies. (If one question is "How might I apply this?" or some reasonable facsimile, this one should promote transfer.)
• Teach her to monitor her comprehension—for instance, through self-explanation or self-questioning.