Teaching students how to learn Effective classroom teachers function more as facilitators of learning than transmitters of knowledge. They use practices that support children's active curiosity.
Students learn to direct their own learning.
They learn to organize their own time, identify resources for learning, and demonstrate what they have learned. They become aware of what goes on in their own mind during learning. This is a critical first step to effective independent learning. The research shows that students who plan, organize and monitor their own learning are more successful academically. Among the particular skills students can learn are setting clear learning goals, underlining key information, quizzing themselves about the content to be learned, organizing new material by concepts, and learning to know when to ask for assistance.