LEARN BY TEACHING

OTHERS
By: MCU COD DIAGNOSTIC AND ASSESSMENT
COMMITTEE SY 2019-2020
 “While we teach, we learn,”
- Roman philosopher Seneca.

The best way to understand a concept is to explain it to someone else.

Study Style: Triangle of Learning
Study Style: Triangle of Learning
■ Originally, the Triangle of Learning was suggested by Dr. Ireneo C. Agulto. This study
style proved to be effective and helped Christian Jake Villamar to become one of the
topnotchers in board exam. According to them, here are the important part of
studying to let all the topics retain on your mind: lecture, reading (10%), audiovisual
(20%), demonstration (30%), discussion (50%), practice doing (75%), and teach
others (90%).

■ As you can see, the first four parts of the pyramid are important, but it is lesser
essential than the bigger part of the pyramid. The lower parts are mainly the
discussion group. That only means that reading and studying are not the most
essential factor to let all the lessons retain on your mind. You should participate in
active discussions. Participate in giving help to someone by teaching them with what
you have studied.
The Protégé Effect: How You Can Learn by
Teaching Others
■ The protégé effect is a psychological phenomenon where teaching, pretending to
teach, or preparing to teach information to others helps a person learn that
information.
■ A student who is studying for an exam could benefit from the protégé effect and
improve their understanding of the relevant material, by teaching that material to
their peers.
How the protégé effect helps you learn
■ Expecting to teach and teaching can lead to increased metacognitive processing, which
makes people more actively aware of their learning process.
■ Expecting to teach and teaching can lead to increased use of effective learning
strategies, such as organizing the material and seeking out key pieces of information.
■ Expecting to teach and teaching can lead to increased motivation to learn, since people
will often make a greater effort to learn for those that they will teach, than they do for
themselves.
■ Expecting to teach and teaching can lead to increased feelings of competence and
autonomy, by encouraging people to view themselves as playing the role of a teacher,
rather than that of the student.
■ another notable benefit of the protégé effect, which applies in cases where peers teach
one another, is the fact that peer-teaching can also be highly beneficial to the students
being taught, since they often learn better when their teacher is someone that they are
close to in terms of social and cognitive distance.
How to take advantage of the protégé
effect
■ Learn the material as if you’re going to teach it to others. For example, this could entail
trying to learn the material well enough that you would feel comfortable explaining it to
someone else later, and finding the answers to likely questions that people might ask
you on the topic.
■ Pretend that you’re teaching the material to someone. The more realistic this will feel,
the more you will benefit from the protégé effect, so it can be worthwhile to put effort
into visualizing this and to do this aloud. Furthermore, while doing this, you can go
beyond just explaining the material, and also pretend that you’re being asked specific
questions about the material, by the person that you’re teaching it to.
■ Teach the material to other people in reality. This involves actually meeting other people
and teaching them, either one-on-one or in a group setting. Though this approach takes
the most effort, it can also lead to the greatest benefits, especially since knowing that
you’re actually going to teach someone will likely provide you with the greatest boost to
your motivation.
REFERENCES:

■ https://effectiviology.com/protege-effect-learn-by-teaching/
■ https://ideas.time.com/2011/11/30/the-protege-effect/