Teaching Study Skills?

[Gil]

We are in 3rd grade now and are  independent in many of the core-skills and I'm looking to read more about teaching the boys how to study or how to consciously teach themselves something.

 

I honestly don't know how to study--or how to teach someone to study. I was never a good student like that so I actually need a "How to" on this type of thing. Now that we've got a good foundation in the basic skills, I want to teach more of the other types of academic skills.

 

If there are good threads already in the archives about this topic, then could you link me. I did a couple of searches and didn't find any.

[Kiara.I]

This thread on Developing advanced reading skills might have some good suggestions for how to go about it.

[merry gardens]

My high school aged children started this school year by viewing and discussing a dvd from "The Great Courses" on study skills. The speaker was a junior high teacher. http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-become-a-superstar-student-2nd-edition.html

 

I've tried materials like workbooks in the past to teach study skills, and would recommend starting with something like a workbook or written review. Study skills are sometime worth exploring several times throughout a child's educational career, and at some point I recommend looking at that course I linked above.  

[Chrysalis Academy]

I second the Great Course linked above, How To Be a Superstar Student. Shannon really liked it and it applying what she learned - critically - to the other TC courses we're doing! 

 

For more meta-level stuff - how learning works, how to have the right attitude to study and learning and how to be an effective learner, I'd suggest:

 

The Five Elements of Effective Thinking - Burger and Starbird

A Mind for Numbers - Oakley (there is also a Coursera class that uses this book, by the author, it's really good. Dd learned a lot of good study techniques from this course)

 

For more nuts-and-bolts stuff - how to study, how to take notes, etc., What Smart Students Know - Adam Robinson is the best book of this type I've seen.

 

And for how to organize your high school years to maximize your appeal to colleges - How to be a High School Superstar - Cal Newport

 

Here are a couple of good threads:

 

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/518479-metacognition-resources/?hl=%2Bmetacognition&do=findComment&comment=5885308

 

http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/521763-alternatives-to-art-of-argument-talking-about-metacognition/page-2?hl=%2Bmetacognition&do=findComment&comment=5837596

[J&JMom]

My high school aged children started this school year by viewing and discussing a dvd from "The Great Courses" on study skills. The speaker was a junior high teacher. http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/how-to-become-a-superstar-student-2nd-edition.html

 

I've tried materials like workbooks in the past to teach study skills, and would recommend starting with something like a workbook or written review. Study skills are sometime worth exploring several times throughout a child's educational career, and at some point I recommend looking at that course I linked above.  

Thanks for posting this!  I just bought the series for $17 used on ebay for my 7th grader who is having a hard time with the concept that simply reading is not studying and wonders why he is doing poorly on exams despite my recommendations and modeling of note cards, outlining, notes, review, self quizzing, etc.