Derech halimud for high school bochurim

the maharahal says this at length at the end of perek 6 of nesiv hatorah

Personally, I believe learning in Yeshiva should consist of Bekios with unlimited chazzarah. Make chazzarah the goal. And iyun kal. I feel many bochurim don’t enjoy learning because they’re not learning – they’re trying to “do iyun.” Learning is enjoyable, let the bochurim learn and they’ll enjoy it. Don’t fluff it up. Don’t dump a ton of mefarshim on them. Keep it simple – gishmak. I think many Yeshivos system of learning could and eventually will do some overhaul on this. After the shidduch crisis it dealt with… Meanwhile, whatever the Yeshivos are doing are keeping klal yisrael alive and thriving. We couldn’t exist without them – no matter what derech halimud they are teaching. Their main accomplishment is creating “bnei torah” which a bochur absorbs just by being in the walls of the yeshiva and beis medrash. So critiquing the learning style is not critiquing the Yeshiva itself. It’s a פרט in the Yeshiva.

Of course, all this should come after a great deal of Tanach and Mishnah has been learnt.
Now, as for Gemara: Teach them Aramaic first. שפת התלמוד ודקדוקה by Judah Steinberg is a masterful textbook and chrestomathy. Then, teach them the legal terminology. There are many guides to this including Aryeh Carmell’s “Aiding Talmud Study.”
Yaakov Goldman’s three-book series consisting of גמרא למתחילים, גמרא לתלמידים, and סוגיות הגמרא are without peer. Also, “Tools for Tosafos” by Rabbi Haim Perlmutter is a wonderful guide.
It should take about three years of dedicated, inductive instruction of the aforementioned materials for the students to develop the minimum textual fluency needed for independent learning.
Bypassing the hard work of mastering the language, the hermeneutics, and basic halakhic themes from throughout Sha”s is akin to trying to drive an automobile without hands or feet. For it should be the goal of any learning program to equip the learner with the tools to learn using the Vilna Edition of the Talmud. Fewer and fewer learners can do this now thanks to popular editions that require no prior knowledge. Of course, hamstringing the talmidim in this way prevents them from cross-referencing other parts of Sha”s or looking up Rishonim and Acharonim on their own. Really, such editions confine the ignoramus to a very narrow window into the sugya. What about Rashi and Tosafos? What about the Maharsha”l and Maharsh”a? That is where true learning comes in–and there are no shortcuts.

If you truly desire to understand all of Shas, you must master all of Tanach.

Mastering all of Tanach is part of bekius, or should be part of bekius.

I believe it’s a good approach.
It allows the bochrim to become fluent with the gemorah and Rashi, focusing on entrenching and grounding themselves in poshut pshat.

Once they have spent a few years doing so they will be in an excellent position to fully grasp the subtleties of iyun.

Some may feel that the bochrim will be bored with only doing bikiyius. I believe that a dynamic Rebbi should be able to alleviate this issue.