Learn-To-Learn
What Does The Term "Learn-To-Learn" Mean?
Learning-to-learn or learn-to-learn means acquiring,developing, and using those abilities that allow you to think, read, write, and problem solve as a means of gaining critical understanding and acting on that understanding.

Learning -to-learn is concerned more with how you learn, rather than what you learn. If you have learned to learn, it means that you possess certain critical thinking, writing/speaking, reading/listening, and problem solving abilities. These are abilities that you bring to all learning situations.

When you possess learn-to-learn abilities you know how to engage subject matter and situations critically, even if you are seeing that subject matter or situation for the first time.

Why Is Learning-To-Learn Important?
Learning to learn is important because it leads to these consequences:
  1. You promote understanding in yourself by yourself.
  2. You have powerful abilities in thinking, reading and writing that you bring to all learning situations. It does not matter what subject you study (English, math, science, other). You can use your learn-to-learn abilities to construct subject matter understanding.
  3. You can transfer what is learned in one situation to another situation.
  4. You have the ability to see or develop connections within subject matter areas and among subject matter areas.
  5. You have the ability to take intellectual and operational control of the learning situation. Your teachers and your textbooks aid you in your inquiry into the subject matter you study.
  6. You minimize the chance that you will drop out of school or college, or not complete a special course of study.
  7. You become a lifelong learner in the classroom, in the workplace, and in your community.
  8. You have the ability to become an informed citizen. You are a person who is able to understand and act on issues in defense of one's self, family, and our democratic way of life.
What Happens When Learners (Students, Teachers, And Parents) Lack Learn-To-Learn Abilities?
Re-read items 1 thorough 8 above. This time, instead of beginning each line with "You" begin with each line with "You do not."

The general lack of learn-to-learn abilities within our population accounts in great part for the fact that according to national assessments of 17-year olds, only 10% can draw conclusions, just 7% can do math of more than one step, only 7% can understand textbooks, and a mere 2% can write well. (Ref.: What Matters Most - Teaching for America's Future. 1996, p. 5).

Can Learn-To-Learn Abilities Be Developed?
Not only can learn-to-learn be developed, they are waiting to be developed. It is human nature to want to learn. That innate ability to learn, and to learn-to-learn, is already within you.

Visit the "Teaching and Learning for Analytic/Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing." page on this website for more information.

Why Is Rosebrooke The Leader In Learn-To-Learn Materials and Programs?
Conventional sequential approaches to teaching and learning encourage learners to memorize, not analyze. Therefore, the development of learn-to-learn abilities is routinely defeated in school and college classrooms. Read Rosebrooke Reports 1 and 2 for discussions of the severe limitations of Sequentialism.

Rosebrooke's materials and programs use cognitive learning systems to develop analytic /critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities. Our cognitive-analytic strategies and techniques are referred to as Cogetics. Cogetics empowers all learners to take intellectual and operational control of any subject matter topic. Cogetics may be thought of as an intellectual operating system for the mind.

Cogetics helps all learners to see and act intelligently. With Rosebrooke's materials and programs learners are no longer at the mercy of conventional rote approaches to teaching, learning, and textbook presentations. Click here to see what teachers and students say about cognitive-anlaytic strategies and techniques.

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