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    Study Skills for SchoolSuccess!

    By: Miss Cantillon

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    Welcome!

    Rules of the Road

    1. Respect Everyone

    2. Participate3. Go the Extra Mile - it shows your

    teachers that you care

    4. Take Notes5. Raffle

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    Agenda

    Session 1 - Learning About Learning &

    Organization

    Session 2 - Time Management &

    Memorization Strategies

    Session 3 - Handling Homework, Note

    Taking/Highlighting & Test Taking

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    Study Skills for School

    Success!

    This study skills workshop was created foryou. It was written with the following inmind:

    1. Students want to do well in school2. Students who consistently do well in school

    practice good study habits and are wellorganized

    3. Study skills and organizational skills do notcome naturally to most people

    they must

    be learned

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    Learning About Learning 1

    Study Skills Profile

    Interpret Responses

    What Does This Mean?

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    Learning About Learning 2

    Effective study skills and strategies are the

    basis of effective learning

    Working smarter versus working harder

    Learning to learn

    Learning what you know

    Learning what you dont know and

    learning what to do about it

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    Learning About Learning 3

    How Much Do You Retain

    (Remember)?

    10% of what you READ

    20% of what you HEAR

    30% of what you SEE

    50% of what you SEE and HEAR at the same time

    70% of what you SAY as you talk

    90% of what you SAY as you DO a thing

    What Does This Mean for Me?

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    Learning About Learning 4

    Left-Brain/Right-Brain

    Left Brain Right Brain

    Prefer to work alone

    Favor a quiet class

    May choose to write

    an essay rather than

    work in a group

    Prefer to work in

    groups

    Enjoys collaborative

    group work

    May choose to

    complete an activity

    rather than write an

    essay

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    Learning About Learning 5

    Gardners Multiple Intelligences - How Are You Smart?

    1. Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence

    2. Logical/Mathematical Intelligence

    3. Visual/Spatial Intelligence

    4. Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence

    5. Body/Kinesthetic Intelligence

    6. Interpersonal Intelligence

    7. Intrapersonal Intelligence

    8. Naturalist Intelligences

    What Kinds of Intelligences Are Your Strongest?

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    Organization 1

    Topics

    Supply Update List

    Home/School Communication Folder

    Color-Coded Subjects Labeling Assignments

    School Zone

    Student Work Area

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    Organization 2

    Supply Update List - Sample

    SUPPLY UPDATELIST

    TODAYS

    DATESUPPLY TYPE DATE NEEDED

    10/1/06 3 X 5 IndexCards

    11/1/06

    10/6/06 2 black pens 11/6/06

    11/3/06 New battery forcalculator

    11/10/06

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    Organization 3

    Home/School Communication Folder

    At school - put papers for parents in your

    Home/School Folder

    When you get home - put papers in your

    School Zone (described later)

    Have parents check School Zone

    Put signed papers back in Home/SchoolCommunication Folder

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    Organization 4

    Color-Coded Subjects

    Assign every subject a color

    Match your notebook/binder tab color

    to the folder color Use colored tabs

    On journals & workbooks, use a

    marker to stripe the pages with thecolor for that subject

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    Organization 5

    Labeling Assignments

    Julie Cantillon September 1, 2006

    S.S. Pg. 120 ReviewQuestions

    Give Every Assignment a Heading and a Title!

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    Organization 6

    School Zone

    Special place where you put parent papers,

    a place your parents check every day

    Could be a basket or a bulletin

    board

    Great place for notes for teacher,

    field trip permission slips etc.

    Leave yourself reminder notes in your

    School Zone

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    Organization 7

    Student Work Area

    What does your current work area look

    like?

    How should it look?

    You remember more if you do your

    homework in the same place and sametime each night!

    Necessary supplies