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Classroom Lesson 1
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Kaizen

• Japanese
• Continuous and never ending improvement
• The ability to notice even very small
  improvements in ourselves and also in others

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Kaizen

• Little by little,
• Bit by bit,
• Im improving,
• Everyday

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Seven Test Taking Strategies

• Use slow breathing to relax.
• If you begin to get too anxious, repeat slow
  breathing and picture your Calm place for a
  moment to break the stress cycle. Focus on your
  test taking strategy.
• Look over the entire test to determine how long
  it is and where the most points are. Determine a
  time limit for each section.
• If you use acronyms, or other memory aids write
  them down on a scratch piece of paper.
• (cont.)

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Seven Test Taking Strategies (cont.)

• 5. Answer the easy questions first. Often these
  questions will have clues to harder
  questions.
• 6. Go back to the harder questions. Look for
  clues. Eliminate any obvious wrong answers.
  If you are still not sure of the correct answer
  take your best educated guess.
• 7. Budget your time so that you have a few
  minutes left at the end to check your answers.
  Make sure you do not leave any blank.

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Seven Test Taking Strategies

• Use slow breathing to relax.
• If you begin to get too anxious, repeat slow
  breathing and picture your Calm place for a
  moment to break the stress cycle. Focus on your
  test taking strategy.
• Look over the entire test to determine how long
  it is and where the most points are. Determine a
  time limit for each section.
• If you use acronyms, or other memory aids write
  them down on a scratch piece of paper.
• (cont.)

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Seven Test Taking Strategies (cont.)

• 5. Answer the easy questions first. Often these
  questions will have clues to harder
  questions.
• 6. Go back to the harder questions. Look for
  clues. Eliminate any obvious wrong answers.
  If you are still not sure of the correct answer
  take your best educated guess.
• 7. Budget your time so that you have a few
  minutes left at the end to check your answers.
  Make sure you do not leave any blank.

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Tips on Improving Your Memory
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Association
Use association to remember numbers. Let's say
you keep forgetting your student ID every time
you need to use it again. Just break down the
number into smaller chunks and create images
associated with those chunks. Let's say the
number is 12-7575-23. Find a way to make these
numbers meaningful. Let's say "12" happens to be
your house number, "75" happens to be your
grandmother's age, and the number "23" is Michael
Jordan's jersey number. Here's what you can
visualize to remember the number Picture your
house with two copies of your grandmother
standing to the right, showing that the house
comes first. Then imagine Michael Jordan standing
to the right of your grandmothers. There you have
it -- 12 (your house), 7575 (double-dose of
Grandma) and 23, the basketball star.
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Chunking
Chunking is a way of grouping things together to
help you memorize them. Random lists of things (a
shopping list, for example) can be especially
difficult to remember. To make it easier, try
categorizing the individual things from the list.
For example, list all of the fruits together, the
dairy products together, and the bread products
together. This will not only help you memorize
the list, but it'll make your shopping experience
much faster.2 If you can remember that, among
other things, you wanted to buy four different
kinds of vegetables, youll find it easier to
remember all four. Chunking is what we do when
we list a phone number with dashes. Which looks
easier to memorize, 8564359820, or 856-435-9820?
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Rhymes
Use rhymes. Using a variety of common and silly
rhymes can help you recall basic information. For
example, if you're trying to figure out if April
has 30 or 31 days, just say the old rhyme aloud
"Thirty days has September, April, June, and
November." Then you'll remember that April does
indeed have 30 days. Here are some other rhymes
to use as memory tools "In fourteen-hundred
ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." A
child can learn the alphabet by singing it to the
tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," which
makes the letters rhyme.
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Acronyms
Acronyms are another wonderful tool for
remembering a variety of things, from the names
of the five Great Lakes to the words used as
conjunctions. You can use a popular acronym, or
create one for yourself. For example, if you're
going to the store and know you only need Butter,
Lettuce, Bread, and Unagi, then just create a
word out of the first letter of each term "BULB"
-- Butter, Unagi, Lettuce, and Bread. Here are
some popular acronyms to use4 HOMES. This one
is used for remembering the Great Lakes Huron,
Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior. FANBOYS.
This acronym can help you remember simple
coordinating conjunctions For, And, Nor, But,
Or, Yet, So.
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Acrostics
Acrostics are similar to acronyms, except instead
of just remembering the acronym, you can remember
a new sentence made out of the first letters of a
set of words that you have to memorize in a
certain order. For example, you can say, "My very
eager mother just sent us noodles." to learn the
order of the planets Mercury, Venus, Earth,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. You
can also make up acrostics of your own. Here are
a few more popular acrostics Every Good Boy
Does Fine. This is used for memorizing the lines
on the treble music staff EGBDF. King Philip
Can Only Find His Green Slippers. Use this to
memorize the order of the classification system
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus,
Species.