Teach Yourself How to Learn, Saundra Yancy McGuire
Teach Yourself How to Learn, Saundra Yancy McGuire
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Teach Yourself How to Learn
Strategies You Can Use to Ace Any Course at Any Level

Author: Saundra Yancy McGuire, Stephanie McGuire, Mark McDaniel

Narrator: Carmen Jewel Jones

Unabridged: 3 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/17/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Following up on her acclaimed Teach Students How to Learn, that describes teaching strategies to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success, Saundra McGuire here presents these "secrets" direct to students.

Beginning with explaining how expectations about learning, and the study efforts required, differ between college and secondary school, the author introduces her listeners, through the concept of metacognition, to the importance and powerful consequences of understanding themselves as learners. This framework and the recommended strategies that support it are useful for anyone moving on to a more advanced stage of education.

In a conversational tone, and liberally illustrated by anecdotes of past students, the author combines introducing listeners to concepts like Bloom's Taxonomy, fixed and growth mindsets, as well as what brain science has to tell us about rest, nutrition and exercise, together with such highly specific learning strategies as how to read a textbook, manage their time, and take tests.

With engaging exercises and thought-provoking reflections, this book is an ideal motivational and practical text for study skills and first year experience courses.

About Saundra Yancy McGuire

Saundra Yancy McGuire has been teaching chemistry and working in the area of learning and teaching support for over forty-five years. In 2007, she was recognized for excellence in mentoring with a Presidential Award presented in a White House Oval Office Ceremony. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemical Society, and the Council of Learning Assistance and Developmental Education Associations. In 2013 she retired as assistant vice chancellor and professor of chemistry at Louisiana State University, and in 2017 she was inducted into the LSU College of Science Hall of Distinction. She is now Director Emerita of the LSU Center for Academic Success, which was named the National College Learning Center Association outstanding learning center in 2004. Saundra has presented her widely acclaimed faculty development workshops at over 300 institutions in eight countries. Saundra received her BS degree, magna cum laude, from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, her Master's degree from Cornell University, and her PhD from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where she received the Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Professional Promise.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Abigail on September 27, 2022

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book! It was very easy to read, engaging, and incredibly helpful. I will definitely be using some of the learning strategies in this book going forward. I highly recommend for any student—even those who already have good study habits would likely appreciate......more

Goodreads review by August on August 19, 2024

" Your score is a reflection of your behaviors, not your intelligence." "Pay close attention to your thoughts. With whom do you find fault when things do not go as you would have liked? Are you thinking with a growth mindset or a fixed mindset? What is your self-talk like?" "The greatest influence in......more

Goodreads review by William on June 08, 2023

As a teacher, I read this book to better help my students become better learners. I think the target age to teach them learning strategies would be in high school so that when they embark to college on their own they are more prepared for success. I felt that a good portion of this book was spent tr......more

Goodreads review by Greg on September 24, 2021

I wish I had this book when I was in school (and that I would have had the determination to use it). I would have earned better grades and wouldn't have struggled as much.......more

Goodreads review by Liesl on October 04, 2022

I read this to get extra credit for one of my classes. Overall, the book was decently helpful.......more