Approach to Learning

It refers to the skills and behaviors that children use to engage in learning. It incorporates emotional, behavioral, and cognitive self-regulation as well as initiative, curiosity, and creativity.

The Approaches to Learning have been categorized into five interrelated areas including Thinking skills, Research skills, Communication skills, Self-management skills and Social skills.

Students’ approach to learning:-

Students’ approach to learning describes what they do when they learn and why. The basic distinction is between a deep approach to learning, where students are aiming towards understanding, and a surface approach to learning, where they are aiming to reproduce material in a test or exam, rather than actually understanding it.

The same learner can adopt a deep approach in one context, and a surface approach in another. The difference in approach depends on the characteristics of the context, and the learners’ interpretation of it. In other words, the learner’s approach is not fixed. For example, students’ perception of a time-pressured environment can cause them to rush and adopt a surface approach for this particular course.