Implementation Timing Physics of Motion consists of 24 lectures over a 12-week semester. The learning strategies were taught early in the course so that any benefits would be available during the whole semester. In particular, teaching skim reading and note taking skills provided a context for students to become familiar with the structure of their textbook. The timing for the learning strategies project is given in Table 1. This is an essential ingredient for any constructivist teaching pedagogy.
Students seeing the lecturer apply the strategy.
Students applying the strategy themselves. The relative generic nature of learning strategies and their importance for success at university and beyond were also discussed with students. In addition, they were introduced to ideas of metacognition and encouraged to think more deeply about how they learn. The students were given the scenario of learning a chapter from a physics textbook for a test in a few days time. The purpose of this survey was to encourage students to think about how they go about reading, making notes and learning physics as an important first step in teaching skim reading and note taking.