This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 58 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode we're going to talk about six powerful learning strategies you absolutely

must share with your students.

Teachers I have two questions for you.

Number one, have you ever told your students to study for a test?

And number two, have you ever actually taught your students how to study?

My guess is that most of you will answer yes to the first question and no to the second.

Every teacher I ever had would answer the same.

And based on what I'm seeing with my own kids, not much has changed.

It turns out studying can be taught.

There are specific research-based methods for learning and studying information.

And if we can get a handle on those methods, then teach them to our students.

They stand a much better chance of actually learning and remembering our material.

In this episode I interview Yanna Weinstein and Megan Smith,

cognitive psychological scientists who have done a lot of research on how people learn.

With their new website, the learning scientists, Weinstein and Smith are on a mission to teach

students how to learn better. In our interview they explain six strategies students can

immediately start applying to their studies. I want teachers to know about these strategies

for two reasons. First, I think these would be great techniques for you to teach your students to

use. Even if you have taken a stab at showing your students how to study, I am betting there's

something in this episode you didn't know. So you can teach them even better ways of learning on

their own. The second reason is this. All of these are methods you can actually apply to your

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