Oct 25, 2026, 11:19 PMVirtualEGP 3800.00

Skills Matter!: Teaching Learners How to Learn

Learning is more than acquiring knowledge; it is about developing the skills and dispositions that enable learners to think, communicate, collaborate, create, solve problems and become increasingly independent. This workshop explores why explicitly teaching learning skills is essential to developing capable, confident and lifelong learners. Participants will examine how skills can be intentionally identified, taught, modelled, practised, assessed and transferred across different learning contexts. Through practical strategies and collaborative exploration, educators will consider how to make skills visible, purposeful and meaningful, helping learners understand not only what they are learning, but how they can learn more effectively.

What You Will Learn

Explore the importance of explicitly teaching skills rather than assuming learners will develop them naturally.
Examine the different types of skills learners need to become independent, capable and lifelong learners.
Explore how to identify and sequence skills according to learners’ developmental needs and learning goals.
Develop strategies for modelling, scaffolding, practising and gradually releasing responsibility for learning skills.
Explore how skills can be taught within authentic disciplinary, inquiry and transdisciplinary learning experiences.
Consider how teachers can make learning skills visible and transferable across different subjects and contexts.
Explore how learners can reflect on, assess and regulate their own use of skills.
Examine how purposeful feedback can help learners strengthen and apply skills more effectively.
Explore how intentional skills teaching can develop learner agency, independence and confidence.