A set of
principles concerning the
learning and
teaching of any
skill,
topic or clearly defined body of
knowledge. The
objective of SILT is to strongly increase not only the
rate at which the student learns the immediate skill, topic or knowledge, but also the student's continual
ability to learn, whether the
focus is on the immediate skill, topic or knowledge, or on learning in general (usually, it's considered the students choice).
The following make up the
core of SILT. This core is at all time intended to be expanded; in SILT, both learning and teaching is considered a process of learning (yes, both learning to teach and
learning to learn).
Core of SILT:
No
school,
college,
university or other
academy is yet known to employ SILT directly (it is new and not widely known). However, as SILT builds on the decades of
research done in
psychology and
cognitive sciences (just as
Neuro-Linguistic Programming does), most
concepts are based on known
methods or
theories.