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Study and Organizational Skills

Study and Organizational Skills. *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?

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Study and Organizational Skills

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  1. Study and Organizational Skills • *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)

  2. Study Skills: what you will need • 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)

  3. Step #1: Create a study space • What is appealing about this study space? • What is wrong with this study space?

  4. Places to study:

  5. Other places to go to study • *Bread Co. • *Library • *Starbucks • *quiet space at home • *study group location • *café/deli • *park • *kitchen table

  6. How much time does it take to study? When do I 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 bed • NO TV UNTIL AFTER HW IS DONE!

  7. BREAKING IT UP! • 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.)

  8. Be sure your home study space is organized, not cluttered. This will help you stay focused on the task at hand!

  9. Next location! Variety is the spice… • 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.

  10. Who else studies in cafes? • “While the first coffeehouse is thought to have been "opened by an eccentric Greek named PasquaRoseé 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

  11. Tips: • 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

  12. Now that you are focused… • 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 • Study skills: • http://www.howtostudy.org/ • http://www.usu.edu/arc/idea_sheets/pdf/concentration.pdf

  13. How to build concentration: • Develop an interest. An excellent way to do this is by previewing the material. Force yourself to care! • 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? • Prepare to concentrate. Every time you have to get up to get something, you break your concentration. • 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.

  14. Some videos for notetaking: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t_Vzeq5L3g&feature=youtu.be • http://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

  15. Camille’s advice:divide and conquer • ..\My Documents\Downloads\IMG_4291.MOV • *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.

  16. When things get rough… • 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

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