Cognitive Learning I: Understanding Effective Thinking This
chapter will help you answer the following questions about your
learners: • How can I teach my learners to become good thinkers?
• What cognitive learning strategies can help my learners
remember what I teach? • What cognitive learning strategies can
help my learners improve their comprehension of what they read?
• Which is more important to how much my learners are able to
learn: prior knowledge or intelligence? • How can I use the
information processing model of thinking to better understand
how learning occurs? • What are some ways of getting and holding
my learners’ attention? • What teaching strategies can I use to
enhance my learners’ reception, availability, and activation of
the information I present? • Do my learners have to learn in
orderly, sequential ways or can they use different sources of
information simultaneously to construct their own meanings?
BORICP05.doc - 2 • Is my learners’ intelligence fixed, or is it
made up of many specific