Effective Teaching of Essential Skills for Students in Various Courses

Develop a strategic approach to teaching crucial skills such as reading comprehension, essay writing, problem-solving, and revision to students in different academic disciplines. Embrace assessments, tasks, and subject-specific content to enhance skill acquisition. Integrate study skills with real content for a reflective learning experience. Utilize proven strategies to enhance students' writing abilities and analytical thinking. Poll student writing skills to tailor teaching methods effectively.

• Teaching Skills
• Academic Development
• Effective Learning
• Skill Acquisition
• Student Success

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1. Teaching Students Skills Depending on the courses you teach you will need to teach your students skills such as: reading for comprehension writing essays, reports, or assignments tackling a novel mathematics problem how to revise etc. This webinar proposes that you: Look at assessments, tasks, and the nature of your subject to determine which skills you need to teach. Then plan how to teach these skills, with content, in double decker lessons

2. Skills are processes that have been practised E.g. Essay writing using the art/design process Critical thinking, evaluation analysis analysing an argument etc

3. Effective teaching of study skills [Hattie, Biggs and Purdie (1996)] Teach the study skills up front Mean effect size 0.45 Integrate the study skills into the teaching of real content, and with a reflective approach: Mean Effect size 0.77

4. Skills are processes that have been practised E.g. essay writing using the art/design process evaluation analysis how to tackle a maths problem how to revise

5. Poll 1 What are the writing skills of your students when you first encounter them? A. Very poor B. Quite poor C. Okay D. Quite good E. Very good

6. Here is a strategy to teach writing skills Could you make use of it?

7. You can analyse by knife or by spectacles B A topic topic D C 1 2 3 4

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17. Visual Essay Planning:Lets see what we think How has the internet changed libraries? (cause and effect) after before So .. Caused by

18. For all three writing proformas: http://geoffpetty.com/for- teachers/skills/ The three are: Description Comparison Cause and effect

19. Bridging You have just planned an essay How did you do that? Where else could you use that process? Set a target for doing it better next time

20. Double Decker Lesson Review Skill The Skill Essay planning And the Content Content e.g. role of district nurse; the internet changing libraries or marketing strategies etc etc.

21. Double Decker Lesson Review Skill The Skill Planning an essay And the Content Content The role of the district nurse Would this teach the content well? Even without writing the essay?

22. Double Decker Lesson Would this teach the skill well? Review Skill The Skill Planning an essay And the Content Content The role of the district nurse

23. Double Decker Lesson Killer questions: Review Skill You have just The Skill Planning an essay planned an essay: And How did you do that? (explain) the Content Content The role of the district nurse Where else could you use that process?

24. Assessment So use these skills on the content & the nature of the subject Requires these skills 1 2 3 4 5 Start of course End

25. How to plan essays H. Adams Choose your parts and spectacles . Target: more spectacles needed Models: Skills Sheet 1 2 3 4 5 Start End

26. Prompt students to use the skill properly .. but gradually remove prompts 1 2 3 4 5 Start End

27. Poll 2 Could you use a double decker lesson to teach writing skills in your subject? A. I don t think so B. I m not sure C. Probably D. Yes

28. We need to teach our students to read (!) But how?

30. Bridging and metacognition You have just read a difficult piece of text How did you do that? Where else could you use that process? Set a target for doing it better next time

31. Double Decker Lesson Review Skill The Skill Comprehension of text And the Content Content osmosis

32. Competency approach Study skills never sometimes usually Ask others for help Underline key points .

33. Competency approach Study skills never sometimes usually Ask others for help Underline key points . 1 1

34. Competency approach Study skills never sometimes 2 usually Ask others for help Underline key points . 1 1 2

35. Assignment 2 Target Task 1. Task 2. Task 3. Task 4. References: New Target

36. Spectacles as a teaching method We can analyse anything using spectacles eg proposed maths solutions Adaptable? Mathematically Valid? Maths solutions Properly justified? Well executed?

39. Revision algorithm: This is for studying to ensure accurate and sufficient recall before a test or exam: Study: look at these vital materials, and read your notes/book etc. in support, endeavoring to understand and remember it. Cover: close the book or cover the handout, then, after a cup of tea or other short break . Recall: write down everything you can remember about this vital material, then . Check: Look at what you recalled, and compare it to the book or handout. What did you get right? What did you forget? What did you get wrong? Repeat: on another dayuntil the learning is sound.

40. Revision algorithm: This is for studying to ensure accurate and sufficient recall before a test or exam: Study: look at these vital materials, and read your notes/book etc. in support, endeavouring to understand and remember it. Cover: close the book or cover the handout, then, after a cup of tea or other short break . Recall: write down everything you can remember about this vital material, then . Check: Look at what you recalled, and compare it to the book or handout. What did you get right? What did you forget? What did you get wrong? Repeat: on another dayuntil the learning is sound.

41. Poll 3 Do your students know how to revise? A. No B. They have the basics C. Okay D. Quite good E. Very good

42. We need to attend to both: The process: how to do it, & when The product: the student s work

43. What are the main intellectual skills in your subject? What do most students struggle with? What do assessments require? You need to plan how to teach these skills in double decker lessons