Teach Students How to Learn, with Saundra McGuire

Saundra Y. McGuire discusses how to teach students how to learn on episode 132 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Learning is a process, not an activity.
–Saundra Y. McGuire

Physical activity is really important to having the brain operate at peak efficiency.
–Saundra Y. McGuire

Pretending that you’re teaching information is a great way to practice retrieval of that information.
–Saundra Y. McGuire

Students who may be failing our courses miserably are not failing because they are not capable; they are failing because they don’t have strategies to successfully manage the information.
–Saundra Y. McGuire

When we believe it’s possible, then we can help students believe it’s possible.
–Saundra Y. McGuire

Resources Mentioned

• Teach Students How to Learn* by Saundra Y. McGuire
• Louisiana State University’s Center for Academic Success
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success* by Carol Dweck
• Bloom’s taxonomy
• Earnest Everest Just
• ACUE’s Course in Effective Teaching Practices
• 150 ways to increase intrinsic motivation in the classrooms* by James P. Raffini

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