Transcript The Time is Now - North Central Missouri College
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Study Skill Tips & Strategies
Melody Shipley Tina Totten [email protected]
Countdown to Welcome
• Name
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student college success skills in which you are proficient • Name
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college success skills in which you would like to improve • Name
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step you have taken toward these improvements • Let’s
GO!
So you’ve got good intentions, but maybe you’ve been a bit “busy”. You’re procrastinating when it comes to making the necessary improvements toward reaching your academic goals. How long can you put it off or in other words…
Listening Skills
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Learning by Listening and 10 Bad Listening Habits
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Additional resources
Good listening in class Listening skills More listening skills “Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about listening
Note Taking
• Top 5 Tips for note taking • • • •
Additional Resources
Note taking Note taking strategies & skills Note taking systems Mindmapping video (formal note taking systems) • “Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about note taking
Reading Skills
• SQRW reading strategy
Additional Resources
• • Becoming a flexible reader • ARC handout: How to Read a Textbook ARC handout: How to Read a Math Text “Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about reading texts
Study Skills
• • Study skill self evaluation checklist 10 study habits of successful students • •
Additional Resources
Study groups Help with study skill including a study environment calculator “Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about study skills
Time Management
• • • • • Time management strategies
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Managing your study time Student time management Time management for students • “Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about time management
Going Up….
• • • • • • http://www.counselingcenter.illinois.edu/?page_id=114 http://www.how-to-study.com/study-skills/en/taking tests/47/test-anxiety/ http://www.studygs.net/tstprp8.htm
http://www.studygs.net/tstprp8.htm
http://www.ulc.psu.edu/studyskills/test_taking.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2DgB3X2Afg (video)
Test Preparation
• • • Cramming for tests
Additional Resource
Video-cramming if you absolutely need to
Test Taking
• • • • • • • Testing skills (scroll down to the tricks)
Additional Resources
Test taking tips Video —testing tips Testing taking skills More test taking skills Taking essay tests “Time” to make it personal: Write down 1 thing you learned about test taking
Improving Memory
• • • • • • • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J9J_yD4-1k (video) http://www.how-to-study.com/study skills/en/remembering/29/using-acronymic-sentences-to remember-information/ http://www.how-to-study.com/study skills/en/remembering/85/loci-strategy/ http://www.how-to-study.com/study skills/en/remembering/31/using-pegwords-to-remember information/ http://www.how-to-study.com/study skills/en/remembering/32/using-flash-cards-to-remember information/ http://braindance.com/frambdi1.htm
http://www.calpoly.edu/~sas/asc/ael/memorization.html
Winding Down
List five strategies or skills discussed today and create a mnemonic so you can remember and apply them
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