Learning Strategies

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Introduction

The document will throw light on the strategies regarding the development of concept learning, discussion, and brain storming and dialogue skills. It is valuable and plays an imperative role in education, development and growth of an individual on academic and work front. While many individuals may retain facts and principles, understanding the concept of topic and application of that knowledge usually is overlooked. The fundamental, most vital and crucial ideas of a lesson are usually the most complicated ones and pose a great challenge for teaching experts as individuals might take a lot of time to grasp the basic concept hidden behind the lesson.

Discussion

Development of Concept Learning

Concept learning is an integral element, oriented in curriculum of all grades. Aiding individuals to cultivate comprehensive understanding of critical concepts connected with content-area lesson of education can be considered as one of the most challenging tasks. Critical concepts are those vital ideas that are imperative for the understanding of an overall lesson (Swan, 2003). Individuals who fail to understand those critically essentials concepts during their learning experience develop erroneous or superficial understanding regarding the topic. For example in science class the student studying about evolution should have core understanding and network of comprehensive philosophies regarding survival of the fittest theory. Students might find difficulty in mastering those concepts and applying them in their work.

There are numerous common aspects that drastically impair ability of an individual to become skilled at new concepts in a meaningful and an evocative way. Numerous of these are directly associated with the nature of instructions being delivered to students and others are due to the nature of learning styles and personal abilities of an individual.

Concept mapping is one of the most helpful visual thinking and learning strategy that aids individuals in developing and hence communicating a comprehensive understanding using the connection between the concept and examples. This serves as multipurpose strategy helping students to brainstorm and create fresh ideas, explore the concepts taught to them and draft schemes to connect them, discuss and communicate information and thoughts in relation with the conceptual framework, incorporate the newly learned concepts with older concepts and improvise understanding on particular topic by evaluating information.

Concept Mapping

Concept mapping is a helpful framework of learning that teachers can exercise to evaluate the level of understanding on an individual. The goal of the concept map is to enhance the understanding skills of student to a level where student is capable enough to explain each part of the concept map and critical reasoning underneath concepts. Evaluating critical thinking skills of students is the basic task of concept mapping (Skidmore, 2008).

A concept map circles around the basic phenomenon of basic concept. Usually it is useful for an individual to select a particular topic that either needs to be understood and solved or has an outcome that needs to be evaluated and analyzed. From the centralized idea the key concepts are devised and mapped. The link between phrases and words help in integration of thoughts and ...