A NEW study skills program that
helps students do better in school
also provides learning techniques
that will serve them a lifetime, ac-
cording to Glenn Hogen, vice-
president of education for Sylvan
Learning Centres.

“The most important subject is
the one that is rarely or never
taught in public schools,'’ said
Hogen. ‘‘That subject is how to
study.”’

The new program, designed for
students Grade 5 to adult, is

elps students

available through a network of
over 375 Sylvan Learning Centres,
supplementary learning facilities
staffed by fully-acccedited teachers
in four Canadian provinces and
forty-one states.

Adults also may enrol in the new
program, which teaches study
skills needed to improve their on
the-job performance or to enter
training courses for new fields of
work.

“‘Many people confuse imitative
learning with true study,” said

Hogen, a former public school
teacher and principal. ‘‘They sim-
ply parrot what a teacher says and
they depend upon their memory to
help them get passing grades. But
students who merely mimic a
teacher are like people who can't
swim without a life preserver."*
Hogen said the program is based
on the premise that anyone can
learn sound study habits. ‘it isn’t
a matter of [Q or innate ability,”
he observed. ‘‘We teach students
how to approach learning, how to

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learn to study

take notes, how to read 2ffectively,
and how to intelligently hear and
interpret what a teacher is saying.
Only about 20 per cent of people
of all ages are good listeners.’’
Besides instructing students in
productive study habits, the in-
novative program also stresses
self-discipline. ‘‘This is especially
important for children in single-
parent or working-couple house-
holds,”’ noted Hogan. ‘If parents
perceive themselves to be too busy
or too tired to help a child with

homework, the self-motivated stu-
dent can do very well in tackling
new subjects,’’ he stated.

Hogen said the study skills pro-
gram also helps students face ex-
ams without freezing up. ‘‘When
students —- children and grown-
ups ~~ feel confident about truly
understanding a subject, a test is
no longer an experience to fear.
On the contrary, an exam then
becomes an opportunity to dem-
onstrate how much has been learn-
ed,"' he said.

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