Learning how to learn
A one-day seminar on essential learning strategies designed for teenagers, young adults and teachers - who wish to acquire a thorough understanding of how attitudes and behaviour patterns affect the quality of learning at school and college: What most high school learners don't know - how to avoid the all-too-common problems that prevent academic success.
The most important aspect of life this century is likely to be exponential change. Today's young people will not have the same life their parents had. In all likelihood, these young people will have several careers during their working lives. Some of the jobs these people will do don't yet exist. And some of today's careers are likely to disappear.
How they cope with the enormity of the exponential change that awaits them will depend on how well they can solve problems and adapt to change. The key to the future will be in an ability to interact with the environment in which future human beings reside, work and play - and this means acquiring an ability to learn for the sake of learning and not merely to pass assessments, although clearly achieving high marks for assessments has important social value most people would be unwise to ignore.
Serious learners are going places. To be sure, they achieve high marks, but they know that marks are not the real goal. They know there is a larger purpose: filling their knowledge bank and developing learning skills are the real academic goals. They think beyond classes, terms and marks. They are trying to discover where their high school education is taking them. They know that a good matric is just a start. They are looking at the bigger picture.
People who attend this seminar will learn:
• To use their high school years as a training ground
• What university is like and what it expects from you
• To be a stronger student in all subjects - even the weaker ones
• To master an efficient learning style that really works.
Who should attend?
Learners in grades 10, 11 and 12; young adults wishing to do better in a 'second-chance' opportunity; and teachers and maybe other adults who wish to understand how attitudes and behaviours affect academic performance. Others who wish to understand how real learning
occurs.
Topics include:
· How we got to where we are today
· Imagining our tomorrows - what could these be?
· Planning a successful future - setting personal goals
· What we need to do to achieve these goals
· Why having a 'knowledge' savings-bank account is important
· Keeping track of our achievements in our savings bank account
· The difference between the 'map' and the 'territory' in learning
· Acquiring real learning skills
· Homework vs. studying
· Cramming vs. learning
· Employing action learning - in the classroom, in sport, in extra-murals, at home
· And, above all else, learning to enjoy learning
The course is based on the prescribed text which forms part of the cost (R135.00) payable at the door.
Date: 25 August 2012Time: 09:00 - 15:00
Venue: Bergvliet High School, Cape Town
Cost: R260.00