Document Type
Blog Post
Publication Date
11-18-2013
Publication Title
Edutopia International Online Magazine
Additional Publication URL
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/brain-compatible-study-strategies-lori-desautels
Abstract
Driving my 15-year-old daughter home from cross country, I asked her where she learned to study. She replied, "Mom, I have never been taught how to study, we just do it because teachers have way too much to teach! They assume we know, and Cornell Notes are their idea of teaching us how to study!" I thought about this conversation and began to create a template that can hopefully assist students to organize, plan and create capacity in their working memories to learn content for the long term.
Below is a brief, simply-stated template on study skills for fifth grade students preparing for a math assessment. The brain's executive functions must be addressed even though our curriculum is full to overflowing, our days and hours are shortened instructionally, and we cannot afford not to integrate these mindful, researched strategies that invite the working memory and prefrontal cortex to engage in the learning process.
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Recommended Citation
Desautels, Lori, "Brain-Compatible Study Strategies" (2013). Scholarship and Professional Work – Education. 118.
https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/coe_papers/118