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Learning to Learn Through Academic Decathlon

Learning to Learn Through Academic Decathlon. Stephen Bergauer. About Me. 6 th year involved with Decathlon As a student: Highest individual scorer at 2012 AZ AcDec State Competition (9,051 ); medaled in all events

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Learning to Learn Through Academic Decathlon

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  1. Learning to Learn Through Academic Decathlon Stephen Bergauer

  2. About Me • 6th year involved with Decathlon • As a student: Highest individual scorer at 2012 AZ AcDec State Competition (9,051); medaled in all events • Later: Co-founded Decademy; Study Math, Finance, Economics at ASU; Asst. coach old HS team

  3. Why Academic Decathlon? • Expand “typical” HS subjects and build connections across subjects • Improve test-taking abilities • Learn how to work in groups and as a team • Build confidence in academic abilities/Challenge students who may not see themselves as “academic” • Create lifelong learners

  4. What is the coach‘s role? • Promote the big picture • Focus on recall • Eliminate “learning style” traps • Measure growth • Make learning enjoyable

  5. “The Big Picture”

  6. How to build a “chunk” • A chunk is a mental leap that separates bits of information through meaning • Focus on what you want to chunk • Understand the basic idea that you are trying to chunk • Gain context so that you can see when to use the chunk • Chunking can be bottom-up (practice and repetition build and strengthen an idea) or top-down (knowing where an idea fits in the big picture) – you need both to learn!

  7. How to build a “chunk”

  8. Overlearning and Interleaving

  9. Diffuse and Focused Thinking

  10. Spaced Repetition

  11. Why you shouldn’t cram…

  12. Avoiding the “Learning Styles” Trap

  13. Replace This… With This • Rereading • Reading straight through material • Highlighting and underlining everything • Circling key words • Reading out loud • Recall/Anki • Mini-tests • Highlighting main ideas after reading for the first time • Annotating main ideas of paragraphs in margin • Group discussion after individual reading

  14. Questions? • Stephen Bergauer • Email: contact@decademy.org • Phone: 480.200.5506 • See card/forms on sign-in table

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