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Study Skills for College- Level Students

Chapter 1

Academic Self-Management

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1. What Is Academic Self-Management?2. What Is The Difference Between High

School and College?3. Why Are Some Students Less

Successful Learners?4. How Can I Manage My Academic

Behavior?5. How Can I Change My Behavior?6. How Does Self-Management Occur In

An Academic Context?

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1. Bạn có bao giờ tự nhủ phải gắng sức để hoàn thành một việc nào đó?

2. Bạn có lên kế hoạch sử dụng thời gian của mình hàng tháng, hàng tuần và mỗi ngày không?

3. Bạn có biết cách áp dụng những phương pháp học khác nhau cho từng môn học?

4. Bạn có thường tự thay đổi môi trướng khi mình không thể tập trung học ?

5. Bạn có đi tìm sự giúp đỡ những khi bạn gặp khó khăn trong việc học không?

6. Bạn có tự đánh giá sự tiến triển việc học của mình dựa trên những mục tiêu mình đã đề ra?

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1. What Is Academic Self-Management?2. What Is The Difference Between High

School and College?3. Why Are Some Students Less

Successful Learners?4. How Can I Manage My Academic

Behavior?5. How Can I Change My Behavior?6. How Does Self-Management Occur In

An Academic Context?

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1. What Is Academic Self-Management?

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Academic self-management is to view academic learning as something students do for themselves rather than as something is done to or for them

It does not matter if the instructor is a poor lecturer, the textbook is confusing, the test is difficult, the room is noisy, or multiple exams are scheduled for the same week, successful learners find a way to excel

Self-management strategies used to become more successful learners often generalize to their personal and work lives

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2. What Is The Difference Between High School and College?

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Areas High School College

Environment- Teacher - directed - Protected by parents and teachers

- Student- directed- More freedom and responsibilities

Way of learning

- Teachers monitor students’ progress- Passive- Homework/Exercises- Good listeners- Can’t choose good instructors/ subjects

- Students are expected to manage their own learning- Active- Longer range assignments- Good thinkers-More electives to choose

Way of teaching

- Motivate students to learn- Pay attention to each individual

- Expect students to be motivated- Less attention to students

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3. Why Are Some Students Less Successful Learners?

They hold faulty beliefs about their ability, learning, and motivation

They are unaware of their ineffective learning behavior

They fail to sustain effective learning and motivational strategies

They are not ready to change their learning and study behavior

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4. How Can I Manage My Academic Behavior?

1. Motivation2. Methods of learning3. Use of time4. Physical and social environment5. Performance

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I know I can.I know I can,

I know I can

• Self-talk

• Goal setting

• Imaging rewards or punishment

4.1. Motivation

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Learning strategies are the methods students use to acquire information

Successful learners need a large number of “tools” to make school work easier

If you know how to use an effective strategy, you also need to be motivated to use it

4.2. Methods of learning

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4.3. Use of time

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4.4. Physical and social environment

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Use self- management processes to influence the quality of their performance

Practice your own skills, critique your own performance and make necessary changes to achieve your goals

4.5. Performance

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5. How Can I Change My Behavior?

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6. How Does Self-Management Occur In An Academic Context?

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Assignment 1: Hãy viết lại những điều gì làm cho bạn thấy hứng thú, những điều gì khiến bạn chán nản trong khoảng thời gian học phổ thông.

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