How to use study strategies to improve your subject knowledge

[...]ultimately, I didn’t really enjoy teaching these lessons, unlike the ones where I felt secure and confident in my understanding.How did you try to change this situation?I started to make more of a conscious effort to enhance and improve my subject knowledge but I was using the classic strategie...

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Published inThe Times Educational Supplement
Main Author Jones, Kate
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London TES Global Limited 23.07.2021
Subjects
Confidence
Knowledge
Learning
Lesson Plans
Lifelong Learning
Memory
Students
Study Skills
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Textbooks
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ISSN0040-7887

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Summary:[...]ultimately, I didn’t really enjoy teaching these lessons, unlike the ones where I felt secure and confident in my understanding.How did you try to change this situation?I started to make more of a conscious effort to enhance and improve my subject knowledge but I was using the classic strategies that research tells us aren’t effective, such as highlighting, re-reading and underlining. The team rated two strategies – practice testing (retrieval practice) and distributed practice (spaced practice) – as the most effective, “because they can help students regardless of age, they can enhance learning and comprehension of a large range of materials, and, most important, they can boost student achievement”. When we explicitly show our students that we are using effective study strategies, we are leading by example and it can help them to realise that these techniques really are for lifelong learning.
ISSN:0040-7887