"Identify and discuss the skills and strategies needed for effective learning" Introduction
The assignment focuses on the skills and strategies of effective learning. Discussion will be on the effectiveness of these skills and strategies within the learning environment.
Within this study the writer has identified multiple possibilities for effective learning. The subject is large therefore the writer has grouped the themes together to make discussion more focused. Main Discussion
Within the skills and strategies to be discussed it has been identified that some interlink with each other and can be equally as valid a skill, as a strategy. To help explain this the writer feels an accurate definition of both terms is needed for better understanding of how some of the ideas within this assignment interlink and therefore are helpful to the learner. Skill as defined in the Oxforddictionaries.com, (2016): The ability to do something well; expertise.
Strategy taken from the same source: A plan of action designed to achieve a long term goal or overall aim.
McTighe and Wiggins, (2013) suggests skill to be a personal ability needed to use strategies to achieve a goal whilst strategies themselves are an overall approach to using all resources to achieve a goal.
Schmeck, (1988) goes further to say that skills are something we can do either intentionally or without conscious decision whilst strategies are conscious and intentional. When we are choosing to expand our learning we are more intentionally conscious of what we need to learn, thus implementing both skills and strategies to achieve this. Without us being able to successfully manage this linking together our overall learning would be disjointed and lack flow and direction.
Skill
The writer will now briefly give an overview of Cottrell, (2013) work in demonstrating the skills needed for