*Plan your week before the week starts
*Expect to be busy! *Ask yourself in advance: how busy
do you want to be?*what is your schedule? Sports,
activities?Time to practice music?
*How much free time do you need/want a day? Weekend?
*When during the day do you want to study?
*When will you have leisure time?(Answer these in your notebook with
a partner)
STUDY AND ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS
Tools needed:*your planner
*A plan!*commitment to your plan
*courage to eliminate distractions
*reliance on yourself– parents probably won’t be so involved in high school
and beyond*stamina
*a good place to study (a table is best)
STUDY SKILLS: WHAT YOU WILL NEED
What is appealing about this study
space?
What is wrong with this study
space?
STEP #1: CREATE A STUDY SPACE
PLACES TO STUDY:
*Bread Co.*Library
*Starbucks*quiet space at
home*study group
location*café/deli
*park*kitchen table
OTHER PLACES TO GO TO STUDY
At the start of your study session, it is important to plan
out your study time: *minimum of 2 hours per day
*can you work in the early morning (most kids say no)
*30 minutes during day*30 minutes before dinner
*1-2 hours before bedNO TV UNTIL AFTER HW IS
DONE!
HOW MUCH TIME DOES IT TAKE TO STUDY?
WHEN DO I STUDY?
Studying time at home:
*look for a place that is free from
distractions*sit by a window but
not by a TV*Turn off your phone, the TV
*have your technology ready (pens, paper, PC,
etc.)
BREAKING IT UP!
BE SURE YOUR HOME STUDY SPACE IS ORGANIZED, NOT CLUTTERED.
THIS WILL HELP YOU STAY FOCUSED ON THE TASK AT HAND!
After your first “study session,” take a break and then move on to
your next study location*The café was the
intellectual center of the early 20th century! It is still a great place
to meet up with a group or to work alone.
NEXT LOCATION! VARIETY IS THE SPICE…
WHO ELSE STUDIES IN CAFES?
“While the first coffeehouse is thought to have been "opened by an eccentric Greek named Pasqua
Roseé in 1652", it wasn't long before ‘contemporaries counted
over 3,000 coffeehouses in London’ by the beginning of the
1700s.Coffee wasn't the only thing
brewing at the city's new cafes. "Coffeehouses brought people and
ideas together; they inspired brilliant ideas and discoveries that
would make Britain the envy of the world. The first stocks and
shares were traded in Jonathan’s coffeehouse by the Royal; and the
coffeehouses surrounding the Royal Society galvanized scientific breakthroughs. Isaac Newton once dissected a dolphin on the table of
the Grecian Coffeehouse."http://www.planetizen.com/node/55574
Some students like to study in silence; some students find that some background music helps. Music without words or music that is not too loud may be a
welcome study aide!
Students often argue that they can study with the TV on without
any problems. Studies show, however, that students who study
with the TV on take five times longer to finish the task and make
20% more errors. http://www.globalpolitician.com/print.asp?id=2364
TIPS:
Study skills:
http://www.howtostudy.org
/http://www.usu.edu/arc/idea_sheets/pdf/concentration.pdf
Take the time block that you have scheduled for
study and set a reachable study goal. (for example: finish reading 3 sections of chapter seven in my
Psych. text, or complete one math problem, or
write the rough draft of the introduction to my
English paper, etc.)
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/concentr.html
NOW THAT YOU ARE FOCUSED…
1. Develop an interest. An excellent way to do this is by previewing the material. Force yourself to care!
2. Set a goal. Be specific in setting goals. Don't just say you are going to "study chemistry." Set a definite plan: "I will read ten pages and answer five questions." Otherwise, how do you know when you are done?
3. Prepare to concentrate. Every time you have to get up to get something, you break your concentration.
4. Vary the activity, your position, your location.5. Prevent daydreaming. 6. Relate learning. You need to make meaningful associations between what you are learning and what you know. This way your learning becomes meaningful and is more readily recalled in the future.
HOW TO BUILD CONCENTRATION:
Some videos for notetaking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_Vzeq5L3g&feature=youtu.behttp://faculty.bucks.edu/specpop/studyskills.htm
http://wise.fau.edu/freshmanadvising/faas10steps.Php
Stress relievers!
http://stress.about.com/od/studentstress/tp/school_stress.htm
Ten Steps*Use one side of the note page for
generating questions or summarizing main points
*Date and title each new lecture*Generate a glossary of course terms and
a list of abbreviations*Write down as many of the key words and
thoughts as possible. If you miss something draw a line and continue to
write. After class, ask a classmate or the instructor to help you "fill in the blanks"
*If you get lost or confused, draw a "?" and continue to write. Check with someone
after class for clarification*Write a one sentence summary of your
notes for each class period*Use questions and/or main points to
generate charts, quizzes, etc. *Take notes, charts, quizzes etc. with you
when you see an instructor or tutor*Use notes to generate mock exams
*The idea of working on one entire piece is overwhelming. Take little pieces and work
on them
*If you mess up, don’t go back to the beginning. Just divide to the smallest part you don’t understand and work on it until it
is perfect*you will get frustrated. Know it is normal,
but keep going*This isn’t something you will just “get.”
Being good at anything means you have to work at it. Things aren’t fun until you get good at it. You get good at it by practicing
while focused.
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CAMILLE’S ADVICE:DIVIDE AND CONQUER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adqLaecr9WY
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have
virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act
but a habit.” Aristotle
WHEN THINGS GET ROUGH…
