He literally explained if you study and it's not sticking , this may help.


Amazing and sooooo needed in education. We often get caught up in teaching kids what to learn instead of how to learn.

We expect kids to learn how to learn naturally but it usually is a reflection of how your parent's taught you. Some of us had good teachers some of us had bad teachers. But as we get older learning how to learn is something we can constantly do. Most of the kids I deal with that have had issues in college it's not based on their intelligence of even work ethic. It's more their executive functioning. I loved how he balances focus with rests. Great stuff. He probably wasn't even teaching that topic he just knew his kids needed it to learn the next thing he was teaching.

A rare gem of a teacher.
 
Amazing and sooooo needed in education. We often get caught up in teaching kids what to learn instead of how to learn.

We expect kids to learn how to learn naturally but it usually is a reflection of how your parent's taught you. Some of us had good teachers some of us had bad teachers. But as we get older learning how to learn is something we can constantly do. Most of the kids I deal with that have had issues in college it's not based on their intelligence of even work ethic. It's more their executive functioning. I loved how he balances focus with rests. Great stuff. He probably wasn't even teaching that topic he just knew his kids needed it to learn the next thing he was teaching.

A rare gem of a teacher.

That’s how I teach.

I do more transformative education, and teaching student how to learn versus retention-based learning.

This a fundamental paradigm shift in education that hasn’t caught up to educators nowadays.

The idea is that failures/mistakes are signals instead of a reflection of the student. I refocus their fear of failure to more meaning insight of what they can learn from it.

I make mistakes in class when I’m teaching, but my mistakes are correctable and that’s how I teach them. Yes, we have to take tests, but tests are not the sole interpretation of student learning outcome. I’m more concerned about them being better versions of themselves.
 
Of course there are other nuances students have to navigate when it comes to studying or learning, but the baseline approach is solid.

The other things they have to navigate are:
* how to they learn under stress
* time management discipline
* eliminating distractions
* emotional interferences
* health-related issues
* family issues
* etc

However, the limitation of this approach is I get side track from the curriculum because teaching transformative learning isn’t a single class lesson.
 
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