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# Groundwork for student learning

## Groundwork for student learning

This learning path will explain the basis for learning. It will go into learning styles, mental models, padegogy and much more. It is a basis for understanding how students learn, and thereby a basis for how to teach.

## Study Guide

These are the topics to complete in the Groundwork for student learning learning path

* [Student learning styles](/teacher-curriculum/topics/learning-styles.md)
* [Motivating students](/teacher-curriculum/topics/motivating-students.md)
* [The Basics of Pedagogy](/teacher-curriculum/topics/pedagogy.md)
* [Cognitive load](/teacher-curriculum/topics/cognitive-load.md)
* [Mental models](/teacher-curriculum/topics/mental-models.md) 

When you have completed all the exercises for each topic you can move on to the final project:

## Final project

Using [this article](https://lo.unisa.edu.au/mod/book/tool/print/index.php?id=610988) and all the topics above, please reflect and write an essay answering the following:

* Summarize the question of how students learn? What different parts are involved
* How will you change the way you run a class in the future? Will you even change anything?


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