In the second article, titled “Building Learning Structures Inside the Head,” Payne writes about the hidden rules of class and “four parts of [a] structure that must be inside [one’s] head before a learner” can learn. The four structures include: “a structure for data and a structure for discipline,” “cognitive strategies or processes,” “conceptual frameworks,” and “sorting mechanisms.”
If students do not have these strategies, they can be learned, says Payne. Each of the four strategies work synergistically for optimal learning, and the absence of even one strategy will negatively impact a learner.
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