study skills, time-management, and learning styles

1. Study Skills
The Key To Success

2. Start Up Activity
CAN YOU FOLLOW DIRECTIONS?
This is a timed test--you have 3 minutes only!
1. Read everything carefully before doing anything.
2. Put your name in the upper right-hand corner of this paper.
3. Loudly call out your first name.
4. Circle the word NAME in sentence two.
5. If you have followed directions carefully to this point, call out "I have.”
6. Draw five small squares in the upper left-hand corner.
7. Put an "X" in each square.
8. In your normal speaking voice, count from ten to one backwards.
9. Put a circle around each square.
10. Sign your name under the title of this paper.
11. After the title write, "Yes, yes, yes.”
12. Put a circle completely around the sentence number seven.
13. When you reach this point, LOUDLY call out, “I AM THE LEADER IN
FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS."
14. Put an "X" in the lower left-hand corner of this paper.
15. Draw a triangle around the "X" you just put down.
16. On the back of this paper, multiply 703 by 66.
17. Loudly call out, "I AM NEARLY FINISHED. I HAVE FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS.”
18. Draw a rectangle around the word “corner” in sentence six.
19. On the reverse side of this paper, add 8950 and 9805.
20. Put a circle around your answer, and put a square around the circle.
21. Punch three small holes in the top of this paper with your pencil point.
22. Underline all even numbers on the left side of this paper.
23. Now that you have finished reading everything carefully, do only
sentences one and two!

3. Objectives
 How to be organized and prepared every day.
 How to take notes
 How to study

4. Organizing

5. What You Need
BRING REQUIRED MATERIALS TO CLASS.
- An organized binder
- An organized notebook
- Class packets
- Pencils
- Graphing calculator (TI-84 Plus)
- Assignment

6. Binder

7. How To Organize Your Binder
 Syllabus goes in the front of the binder
 Note packets, homework packets, and any additional problems
done in class should be organized by topic/unit/chapter and
date in your binder
 Information can be separated by “tabbing” each topic
 Notebook or loose leaf can be kept in the back of your binder (if
needed)

8. Writing Utensils Needed
 Pencils
 Highlighters can be extremely helpful, especially when following along with
packets

9. Necessities
 Book
 Homework to turn in
 Assignment notebook
 Calculator

10. Don’t Forget
 Not bringing the required materials to class or home with you, will decrease
your ability to be successful.
 Note in assignment notebook if you have to take your book home, or additional
materials, so that you don’t forget them
 Some students keep an assignment folder that keeps all of the homework
together

11. Keeping Track Of Work

12. Remembering
 Assignment books
 Online Apps-iCal, google calendar, myHomework Student Planner app, etc…
 Checking PowerSchool and Buzz (if applicable)

13. Oops! I Was Absent
 You need to see your teachers to find out what you missed
 Check on PowerSchool– look at comments
 For classes that have Buzz logins, view new lessons on Buzz and
complete the notes.
 If absent work is not turned in within a timely manner, the work
will remain a “0” in the grade book – Check PowerSchool

14. How To Take Notes

15. Why Take Notes?
 Notes that you take are important for your understanding, for class work the
next day, and for future assessments.
 Those notes are there to help you study and refer back to.

16. Taking Effective Notes
 Write legibly – If you cannot read it, how can we help you?
 Write points you remember reading from the book that the teacher also
mentions
 Write an explanation in your own words
 Use highlighters

17. Using Your Notes
Example of how to reference notes for use during:
 Open note tests
 Class assignments
 Studying
 Creating flash cards

18. Study Skills

19. Study Tips
 Doing your homework and taking the time to study is the same
as practicing for sports or a musical instrument-the more you
practice, (do homework/study) the better you get (grades)
 Use flashcards-know them from the back of the card AND from
the front of the card
 Study in a way that works for you

20. When To Ask For Help
 Whenever you need it…
 Your teachers are available in their classrooms from 7:05-7:30 every
morning and 2:05-2:35 every afternoon
 If you plan to stay for the after-school tutoring, please check with
the teacher first to make sure that they are available to you that
day AND you will also have to get your own ride home.
 There is a teacher for each of the 4 main subjects located in the
library every morning from 7:05-7:30 in case your teacher is not
available.
 The library is open after school until 3:30 daily-you must provide your
own transportation
 Khanacademy.org has free help anywhere you have the internet.

21. HOW TO READ A TEXTBOOK

22. S T A R T A T T H E E N D
• Read and write down the summary of the
chapter
• Write down the questions so that you can
look for those answers when you read the
chapter
• Write down the vocabulary and definition

23. G O T O T H E B E G I N N I N G
• Write down the chapter heading
• Write down the objectives of the chapter

24. R E A D T H E C H A P T E R
• Set up an outline format
• Use bold paragraph headings as the items
A, B, C in your outline
• Add 1-3 key points outlined in the
paragraph(s) below the paragraph heading
using your own words

25. R E V I E W Y O U R R E A D I N G S
• See if you can answer the end of the
chapter questions based upon your chapter
notes
• If not, go back and add these points

26. P R A C T I C E M A K E S P E R F E C T
• This will take you a while to take notes
well from a book-Don’t give up!
• Highlight anything that the teacher
mentions in class notes that match your
book notes. This information is important
and you will most likely be tested on this
information.

28. Every one of you is
“SMART”!
Many people think the human quality “smart” is on a continuum. Like
this…………………………
Not Smart-------------------Very
Smart
That some of us are “smart” and some of us are not. Today I hope to help
you think of “smart” in a whole new way.

29. Psychology……..
What is Psychology?
Psychology is a scientific discipline -- the study of human
behavior.
Psychologists study the biological, physiological and genetic
causes of behavior, as well as the emotional, social, and
developmental factors involved.
In general, psychology is concerned with how people perceive
the world around them and how they react to it, how they grow
and how they learn, and how they relate to others and function
in groups.
In other words, psychology is about how people think, feel, and
behave.

30. Neuroscience
 What is Neuroscience?
 Neuroscience is the study of the nervous system from the molecular to the
organismic levels of organization. It is multidisciplinary, drawing on knowledge
from traditional disciplines such as biology, biochemistry, physiology,
pharmacology and experimental psychology.

31. Multiple Intelligences
Dr. Howard Gardner, a psychologist and
professor of neuroscience from Harvard
University, developed the theory of
Multiple Intelligences (MI) in 1983.

33. Theory of MI
 Based on his study of many people from many different walks of life
in everyday circumstances and professions, Gardner developed the
theory of multiple intelligences. He performed interviews with and
brain research on hundreds of people, including stroke victims,
prodigies, autistic individuals, and so-called "idiot savants."
According to Gardner,
 All human beings possess all intelligences in varying amounts.
 Each person has a different intellectual composition.
 We can improve education by addressing the multiple intelligences
of our students.
 These intelligences are located in different areas of the brain and
can either work independently or together.
 These intelligences may define the human species.

34. So What?
To help you begin to make this theory real for you,
take this short Multiple Intelligences Self-Inventory.
There are just a few questions to answer, which
should take approximately five minutes to complete.

35. Career Ideas based on MI Theory

37. There are many resources on the
web to help you continue your
thinking about MI and you…
 http://www.literacyworks.org/mi/assessment/findyourstrength
s.html
 http://www.bgfl.org/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks3/ict/
multiple_int/questions/choose_lang.cfm
 Thanks for your interest! Mrs. Helfrich