1. REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
TARLAC STATE UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Lucinda Campus, Tarlac City
CHAPTER 2
COGNITIVE AND METACOGNITIVE FACTORS OF LEARNING
12. FIVE KEYS TO FACILITATING LEARNING
SHIELA B. MENDOZA
(reporter)

2. FIVE KEYS TO FACILITATING LEARNING
People can remember and use very little of what they hear and see, and considerably more of
what they hear, see, and do. Typically, one remembers twenty per cent of what one hears, 40 per
cent of what one hears and sees, and 80 per cent when hearing, seeing, and doing are involved.
By and large, education and training is offered in a “tell them and throw in some visuals” mode.
Even much of today’s Web based training is little more than lecture transferred to a computer
screen. And “interactive” is defined too often as “Q” and “A”. This shows that humans are
equipped to learn, love to learn and live to learn.
KEY #1: SET THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Get the room ready. Use color. Have all materials in place. Put on some music. Arrange the
setting in a friendly manner. Get the learner’s attention- which is not an easy thing to do. Send a
signal that the lesson will be interesting and different.
KEY#2: ACTIVATE PRIOR LEARNING
We all learn by applying new information to what we already know. To help the students more
easily grasp new information, we can activate what the students already know either directly or
in a related way. Such action warms up the brain and fire up its connection, thus making new
information easy to absorb.
Key#3: USE A VARIETY OF APPROACHES
Howard Gardner, who has developed a theory of multiple intelligences, refers to a standard
“single chance” mode of education still favored today. Learners receive information typically by
hearing it or seeing it and “must get”. Instead of a single chance, we want our learners to have
multiple chances to get it. We accomplish this by using a variety of approaches that appeal to the
visual, the auditory and the kinaesthetic preferences of learners.
KEY#4: ENGAGE LEARNERS IN A DIALOGUE
A dialogue approach is done by talking about what the students are learning so that they can give
the new information personal meaning, ground it in their own realities, and make it their own.

3. KEY#5: REINFORCE THE LEARNING
The teacher should develop activities that will help learners reinforce what they have learned, tie
things together, and project into the future.
Five keys to facilitate learning were crafted to help educators….
“JUST DO YOU’RE BEST AND GOD WILL DO THE REST”