Post #6 - Mandy Hyde

I think that some of the essential skills and/or learning outcomes I would like my students to know and be able to do are rehearsal, meaningful learning, organization, elaboration, and visual imagery. Learning about these theories in class today from Molly and Drew's teaching project will help me to give my students the ability to effectively know what helps them learn. Every student learns differently, and most of the time, they are unaware of this. It is important for them to know how they learn so that when they begin taking tests later on, they will know what helps them study and learn best. If a student knows they need rehearsal to effectively learn something, then they can study that way and so on with the other ways declarative knowledge is learned. I think it is also important that teachers know that there are different kinds of knowledge. I know there are long term and short term memories, but i did not know that there are declarative and procedural knowledge, which makes sense, and I am glad I now  know.