LIFE-LONG LEARNING
Synod help for credits
Personal Development Plan
Resources: Pathways CD
Principles of self-education
Apply to Language learning.
1. How do Adults Learn?
practical need,
clear goal
input into process
take charge of your own learning
2. Other learning research
involve emotions
set priorities
3. Scope of learning. Pacific Ocean
4. Your learning style
is revealed
by your “hobby”
learning
What
is something you are an
expert at? Why?
Input source: Web – friends –
books – TV --
Input method: Listening –
seeing (reading) – doing
5. The steps of learning: Key
a. Preview. (Bird book. LW topics)
b. Goal – in terms of
future ability,
in order to select from
Information Overload. (bats)
c. Input. Is only one step.
d. Processing. How to go
from
facts
to concepts.
e. Review: how to go from
short-
term to long-term
memory
f. Keep the entire project
together
(notebook, box, document file)
g. Concluding product. Olives.
6. Language learning. Key.
a. Your goal: to do
something;
then you’ll know when you’ve
reached it
b. Use every method:
tapes,
websites, flash cards, reading,
talking; (teaching Pete)
c. Multiple textbooks
(clarinet
books)
d. Stick figures or other
pictures
of actions
e. Photo albums
f. How to use flashcards
g. Read for fluency (New Test.)
h. Systematic review
(major amount of time)
i. See Proficiency Rating Scales
7. How to process:
Organize,integrate:
Put stuff into categories.
Charts and Grids.
Make indices.
Underline or take notes, but then go back and read them, then write a summary or
condensation. Hand-writing is best.
8. Memorizing: Decide what to memorize. Bite-size chunks.
Condense into Diagrams
with
blanks.
Spend largest block of
time in
systematic review
Jim Found, June 2008. See www.foundbytes.com/lw.htm
Email: learner9696@yahoo.com