discipline and critical thinking
I don't think it is easy to teach someone how to be disciplined when it comes to learning. I feel however when a student does put in the effort in regards to something they really want to master the benefit becomes more apparent. This may reinforce how important this concept of discipline really is.
Gena,
What does help students in situations like this are some suggestions on study skills and how to organize the course content in a way that will help them retain the needed information. Guided notes and study skill strategies can then become a part of their self discipline and career development.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
In order to teach someone how to be disciplined when it come to learning you must focus on repition. Repeating the skill set multiple time will help create disipline.
Andrew,
So true. The more you can get students to repeat information or tactile procedures the more that information will be integrated into their long term memory. Then it will be available for their use upon demand.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
In the classroom where I currently teach, we do things in repetition, but all too often there will be a student that says "I've done that once, let's move on to something else". The student doesn't care to be efficient at the task, nor does he care to perfect anything that might be lacking in the task, just get through it. "I want to get through, get my certificate, and move on." I struggle with how to get this student to agree to see something a second time, and even when I show new thoughts in a repeated task, the student often isn't listening because they have already turned me off. It is far too easy to just Google for answers these days instead of thinking through to a solution.
Phillip,
I have encountered this as well at it presents a real challenge in terms of how to get through to such a student. Sometimes I am successful and other times I'm not. One of the things I do is to bring in a recent graduate and have him or her explain how the repetition process helped in terms of problem solving and career advancement. This seems to help these challenging students to see the value of really getting the information and skills internalized in their working memories.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
