The Time is Now - North Central Missouri College

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The Time is Now

Study Skill Tips & Strategies

Melody Shipley Tina Totten [email protected]

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Countdown to Welcome

• Name

THREE

student college success skills in which you are proficient • Name

TWO

college success skills in which you would like to improve • Name

ONE

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

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 • •

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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

Additional Resources

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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