Preparing
to learn requires students to develop a positive attitude
toward learning and to become skilled in personal discipline,
planning, organization, self-monitoring and self-evaluation. By
gaining skills to plan, organize and manage knowledge, students
can take responsibility for and pride in their learning.
Once
students are ready to acquire
new knowledge, they must use other skills to understand and
retain what has been learned. Through scaffolded instruction,
cooperative learning, and collaborative teaching, the students
gain studying and learning techniques to increase their capability
to learn .
The
student then uses another set of "expression skills"
to apply
the new knowledge. These skills include remembering, test-taking
strategies, and written and oral expression skills." At this
stage, the student focuses on how to apply and demonstrate understanding
of what has been learned. Building on the skills he used in preparing
to learn and acquiring new knowledge, the student should now be
able to 1) demonstrate understanding of what has been learned;
and 2) apply this learning process across a range of settings
and situations .
Although
these techniques are grouped in this way, it is very possible
for some of these techniques to be used for all three purposes.
