Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits

An interesting article appeared in New York Times. He debunks many of the teachers talked about how children learn, and it seems to verify that unschooling families known for many years.

Parents, they threw all that you never thought was right to study the habits, and say that we may understand intuitively how unschoolers is that it works: Forget everything you know about good habits to learn! For example, instead of sticking to one study site, just the AC room, where a person learns to improve retention. Also, the study of separate but interrelated skills or concepts in one sitting, rather than to focus intensely on one thing.

Useful Learning Styles The contrast between the huge popularity of learning styles approach in education and the lack of convincing evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, a vivid and disturbing, the researchers concluded.

Here's the key: the brain makes a subtle association between the fact that he studies and a background feeling it at the time, the authors say, regardless of whether those perceptions of consciousness. Changing the type of the material in one sitting - a variable, for example, among vocabulary, reading and speak a new language - it seems to leave a deep impression on the brain than to focus on only one skill at the time.

Determination of undermining an idea that intensive immersion the best way to really master a particular genre or type of creativity, said Nate Cornell, a psychologist at Williams College and the study's lead author. That seems to be happening in this case is that the brain is a gathering of profound seeing models range paintings, it is picking up what looks like, but that's different about them, often subconsciously.

Interval training works better than cramming. In other words, do math 3 times a week, and then using the concepts learned to solve real life problems on alternate days of mathematical concepts stick better. Study of new material, and then promptly given a quiz on it, so it should be considered in the context of the new help. Many of us parents do it unconsciously, as we go on tour. The museum of history you can be constantly asking the child: What do you think they used it for? Do we need this tool in these days? What we use now? And so on. Then we talk about what has been seen on the way home. A few days later, the child sees, grandmother, and you will be surprised to hear your child to give a fairly accurate report on what has become known on the tour. Have you used this new method of teaching.

However, individual training is another matter, and psychologists have found that some of the most sacred tips on studying habits flat wrong. For example, many of the skills training courses claim that the students find a specific location, an office or a quiet corner of the library to make them work. Studies show just ...