Drill of the Month Developed by Gloria Bizjak

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Drill of the MonthDeveloped by Gloria Bizjak

• Study Skills

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Study Skills

• Student Performance Objective
• Given information, resources, and opportunity for
  discussion, participants will be able to list,
  describe, and practice study skills.
• Study tips, techniques, methods, and guidelines
  are based on researched educational strategies,
  observations, and outcomes and are suggested by
  teachers and professors of various schools,
  colleges and universities and professional study
  centers.

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Study Skills

• Overview
• Common Study ProblemsPOWERS
• Study TimeA-Plus
• Effective Reading
• Effective Note Taking

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Common Study Problems

• P O W E R S problems
• Procrastinating
• Finding other things to do
• Thinking you will have time to study later
• Overwhelmed
• Too much work
• Cannot learn the material

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Common Study Problems

• P O W E R S problems continued
• Wasting time
• Looking for study materials
• Figuring out where to start
• Environmentally challenged
• Home interruptions, distractions
• Station/office interruptions, distractions

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Common Study Problems

• P O W E R S problems continued
• Recalling by cramming
• Why waste a semester memorize in one night
• What caffeine is for
• What friends notes are for
• Sleeping
• Too tired to study
• Forgot to schedule sleep into your schedule
• Unable to concentrate
• Burned out with POWERS problems

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines
• Attend class always go to first session
• Meet the instructor for class overview
• Get syllabus course schedule, rules,
  expectations
• Get (or have) textbook
• If you miss, call instructor
• Read ahead each session links to another

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Attend to organization
• Use a day planner schedule study time each day
• Plan sufficient study time with breaks
• Study when rested and alert
• Review material and notes every day
• Do hardest assignments first
• Do final review close to when you need to know it

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Attend to organization
• Schedule other daily must-do items
• Working, eating, sleeping
• Errands, appointments
• Exercising, sports
• Family time, socializing

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Prepare Be organized, ready to study
• Have a quiet study place
• Introverts need a quiet place
• Extroverts and ADHD students need low-volume
  quiet or white noise
• Have all study items handy
• Day planner, paper, pens, pencils, highlighters,
  text, dictionary, computer, paper, ink, CDs/thumb
  drives, desk, chair, lighting, etc.

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Learn this is not the hard part, just time
  consuming
• Before class read early, read ahead
• Highlight
• Outline
• Look up or research
• Write questions for class

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Learn
• In class
• Come prepared
• Listen carefully
• Ask questions
• Participate in discussion
• Take notes

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Learn
• After class
• Reread or rewrite notes
• Review chapter
• Read next chapter
• Make connections

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Understand If you dont get it, ask
• Take interest make it make sense
• Relate this material to previous
• Understand concepts determine key points
• Look for more information
• Stop and review for clarification, understanding
• Overlearn reread, review, recite, recall,
  practice, talk or write about it, use it

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Study effectively Use time productively
• Develop study skills
• Study actively ask yourself questions, review
  notes, find key concepts, look for links
• Think of possibilities, explanations,
  relationships not dead ends

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Study effectively Use SQ-3R strategy
• Survey materiallike looking at a roadmap before
  you go on a trip so you know where you are going
• Get an overall picture or overview
• Read chapter introductions look at headings and
  subheadings look at pictures, charts, graphs
  read summaries

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Study effectively Use SQ-3R strategy
• Question
• Ask/write questions as you read who, what, why,
  how, when, where
• Look for answers to questions from class,
  reading, end of the chapter
• As material makes sense, it makes impressions,
  which are meaningful and remembered

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Study effectively Use SQ-3R strategy
• Read actively
• To answer questions
• To note concepts
• To not bold or italicized words
• To attend to tables, graphs, illustrations

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Study effectively Use SQ-3R strategy
• Recite/Recall to Remember
• Periodically, stop and recall what you have read
• Recite/remember main headings/concepts,
  bold/italics, info in charts/graphs
• Create/understand the overall concept state in
  own words
• Make connections to what you already know

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Study Time

• A P L U S Guidelines continued
• Study effectively Use SQ-3R strategy
• Review Survey what you have covered/learned
• Determine what you accomplished
• Reread to discover what is understood/familiar
• Review at the end of the study period while
  knowledge/questions are fresh
• Before exam, do a final review

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Effective Reading

• Reading Primary means of acquiring information
• Reading is just the beginning of studying, not
  the end of it

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Effective Reading

• Read with Purpose
• Reading to study
• Read difficult material for comprehension
• Read slowly
• Read to understand
• Read more than once
• Read aloud, if it helps to hear the words

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Effective Reading

• Read with Purpose continued
• Skimming
• Read quickly to get a general idea
• Results in lower comprehensionfor now
• Useful when you have to read a lot in a short
  time
• Identify main ideas ignore details for now

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Effective Reading

• Read with Purpose continued
• Scanning
• Read to find specific information you have read
  before
• Move eyes over info to find what you want

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Effective Reading

• Find the Main Idea
• Each Chapter, section, paragraph contains a main
  idea
• Main ideas make highlighting/outlining easy
• Find significant details
• Subpoints/details that support main ideas
• Link details with main idea and main idea with
  other info
• The more links, the easier to remember

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Effective Note Taking

• Taking Notes
• A skill to be learned, practiced, refined
• Keep notes logical and legible
• Use a notebook to record all notes

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Effective Note Taking

• Outlining textbooks
• Underlining w/pencil or penineffective
• Highlightingmore effective
• Highlight key concepts or words only
• Do not highlight entire paragraphs
• Mark key ideas and subpoints as if outlining on
  paper (I, A, B, C, 1, 2, 3, a, b, c, etc.)

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Effective Note Taking

• Lecture Notes Use the SQ-3R strategy
• Survey Listen for and focus/concentrate on main
  points
• Question Think of and ask questions, write
  questions to research later
• Read and reorganize notes, questions
• Recite ask questions, participate in discussion
• Review discussion, review/rewrite notes

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Effective Note Taking

• Think
• Sitting passively wastes your time, does not
  enable learning
• Think what is said before writing it down
• Do not write every word time consuming, misses
  information
• Reorganize in your head what was said, then write
  (easy if you read the assignment)
• Connect what is said w/how you think
• Ask for clarification, revise

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Study Skills

• Student Performance Objective
• Given information, resources, and opportunity for
  discussion, participants will be able to list,
  describe, and practice study skills.

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Study Skills

• Review
• List common study problems (POWERS) and some
  points for each
• List some study tips to earn an A-PLUS and some
  points for each
• List points for effective reading
• List points for effective note taking