Training for Effective Study (Classic Reprint): A Practical Discussion of Effective Methods for Training School Pupils to Organize Their Study ... Their Study Procedure (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Frank W. Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331262127 ISBN 13: 9781331262121

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Master how to speed up study with positive incentives and self-directed practice.

This practical guide shows how supervisors can boost student effort, test readiness, and independent learning. It covers setting up a study environment, aligning study with recitation, and helping pupils test their own preparation. The approach emphasizes self-engineering—letting students identify strengths and guard against repeated mistakes while taking more responsibility for their learning.

The material explains how to keep attention focused, use varied yet central study tasks, and make note-taking a constructive part of studying. It discusses how to design assignments that sustain effort, foster deliberate practice, and connect study with real outcomes. The goal is to develop capable, self-directed learners who can judge their own progress and steer their future work.

• Techniques to increase concentration and momentum during study periods
• Strategies for testing the adequacy of preparation and rewarding progress
• Ways to cultivate self-engineering and independent task setting
• Guidance on note-taking and outlining to reinforce understanding

Ideal for teachers, tutors, and students aiming to organize study more effectively and build lasting independence.

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Excerpt from Training for Effective Study: A Practical Discussion of Effective Methods for Training School Pupils to Organize Their Study Procedure

The careful study of such a volume by the students in training in our normal schools and teacher-training classes, based as it is on the psychology of the instincts and of thinking, could displace, with advantage, much of the special-methods work now given to intending teachers. It deals with the fundamental underlying methods for training pupils to think and to acquire and use needed information, whereas much of the special-methods work still taught in our teacher training institutions deals only with the presentation, by the teacher to the child, of traditional courses of study material.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331262127
• ISBN 13: 9781331262121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277