hm Learning and Study Skills Program
Box 4083 Redwood P.O.
Winnipeg MB R2W 5K8
Email: hmlearningskills @mts.net
Fax 204 667 647

A number of years ago while teaching at the Maples Collegiate in Winnipeg I was introduced to the hm Learning and Study Skills Program. My class consisted of Work Experience students.  These young teenagers showed many learning disabilities and negative attitudes towards learning. It was a challenge to motivate them. Half way through the year I ordered the level II Student Text and Teacher Guide.

I opened the book and saw one of the first important skills. Listening. It was set up with suggestions on how to incorporate the skill.  It was clear to me that I was the only one who really knew the student’s interests and abilities. Our school had a wealth of high interest materials that could be used. I asked the students if they thought listening skills were important. They responded with a resounding YES. Because they took ownership for the program, we developed a system of evaluation and incorporated listening as a weekly ritual.  One thing in their favor, they learned the language through hearing although many of them experienced difficulty decoding written words. Using their success patterns resulted in willing participation. At times one would ask, “Mr. Ruta when will we do something interesting like Listening”. The door was opening and I began moving on to the many other common sense approaches to learning.  You are invited to explore them.

From the Desk of
Tom Koerner
Executive Director Emeritus, NASSP
hm Learning & Study Skills Programs
Sponsored by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Reston VA.

If our students are to succeed in the world that awaits them, they must know how to learn and study. They must know the importance of listening, observing, note taking, reasoning, and the host of other skills necessary for success; and they must start learning these skills as early in their school careers as possible and continue learning them as they encounter more sophisticated situations in high school and college.

Without these skills, not only will our youth be unable to meet the standards and expectations we have of them in school today, but they will also be unable to cope with the changing workplace they surely will enter upon completion of their formal schooling. Study after study-points out that we as educators must prepare students for learning as a lifelong activity. It is essential. Too often, educators in today's schools and classrooms forget that students may not have a good handle on how best to study and learn.

Grades 1-12
Effective study and learning skills teaching helps to prepare students to study effectively, succeed as learners, using what they know and can do on tests. When you teach students of any age how to learn, how to listen, how to use their time and energy, how to solve problems, and understand how test questions work, they become more successful learners.
The hm Learning and Study Skills Programs provide a framework for infusing study and learning skills instruction into your curriculum in every subject area.

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