This document outlines study skills strategies for students with disabilities presented by Frank A. Shaffer and Phyllis Seeba. It discusses the benefits of study skills instruction, including increasing student confidence and learning by 37% with specific feedback. Study skills can be taught in various settings and ensure students learn to become independent learners by teaching orientation, activation, and maintenance of skills. Key study skills covered include time management, note taking, test taking, reading, writing, and organization.

1. Study Skills Strategies:
Meeting the Needs of Students
with Disabilities
Presented by
Frank A. Shaffer and Phyllis Seeba

2. Why Study Skills?
l Students learn best when they know
their learning and personality style.
l Students become proactive in their
learning when they know how to
learn.
l Student confidence and self esteem
increases with study skills
interaction.

3. Learning difficulties will
affect a student’s ability
to self design and
independently apply

4. About Metacognition
l Metacognition is used in
education to describe the
learning process.
l Students learn how to
learn!

5. Grading
• Students earn points for participation, assignments, & materials.
• Students earn points for following school rules and attendance.
• Students earn points for independent & cooperative learning.
• Students earn points for being responsible for themselves.
A = 90 - 100%
B = 80 - 89%
C = 70 - 79%
D = 60 - 69%

6. These learning difficulties
affect study skills
l Weak attention l Chronic
controls misunderstanding
l Reduced l Delayed skills
remembering acquisition
l Deficient output l Poor adaptation

7. Why do students
with learning
difficulties benefit
from study skills
instruction?

8. The Benefits...
l Classroom strategies that minimize
distractions and maximize
information equal higher learning.
l Study skills foster self esteem and
promote social success which
promotes scholastic success.

9. The Benefits...
l If kids know what they are to
learn, and get specific
feedback, they can increase
learning by 37%.
l Standards have to drive
instruction.

10. The Benefits...
l A study skills class is valued by
kids in high school and college
settings alike.
l Common expectations are
reinforced.
l Organize for multiple
intelligence.

11. The Goal
l The primary goal is to equip
students with the tools that
enable them to become
independent learners.
l Course objectives meet the
Alaska Content Standards.

12. Students will demonstrate:
l Knowledge of learning
strategies and how people learn
l Ability to set short term and
long range goals
l Techniques to build retention
and comprehension

13. Students will demonstrate:
l Note taking for reading and
listening
l Comprehend a basic vocabulary
and skills
l Skills in following directions

14. Students will demonstrate:
l Identify information in library/
media center
l Communicate ideas using
instructional technology
l Knowledge of higher level
thinking skills

15. Students will demonstrate:
l Ability to speak and write for a
variety of purposes
l Think logically and reflectively
while taking a test

16. Study Skills can be taught in a
l Resource Room l Self Contained
l Special class
Education class l Remedial class
l General l Inclusion Model
Education class l Workshop
l Collaborative l Tutorial
Team

17. Study skills can also be
taught
l By parents at home
l Or in a summer program

18. To ensure that students learn and
apply study skills
l Orientation
l Activation
l Maintenance
l Study skills are most effective
when taught as they are
needed.

19. Learning Style Inventory
Students learn best when
they know their learning
and personality style.

20. Listening Skills
A student’s success in school
depends directly on their ability to
listen, as it is the main channel of
classroom instruction.

21. Time Management
Show students the
connection between their
goals and their study
efforts

22. Writing skills
The most important skill for writing
papers may be the ability to form
and follow a writing plan.

23. Reading for a purpose
Students need to make the
transition from “learning to
read” to “reading to learn”.

24. Note Taking Skills
Note taking encourages
students to process
information and put it in
their own words.

25. Self Advocacy
Students taking charge of
their education.

26. Memory skills
Memory strategies are
building blocks to a firm
foundation to support
academic goals.

27. Math skills
Improvement in one’s mathematical
ability is in part due to collecting,
organizing, analyzing, interpreting
and formulating questions about
data.

28. Test Taking
Test taking consists of two
phases: preparing for the
test and taking the test.

29. Library/Research
Students must be taught
how to judge the
importance of incoming
information.

30. Organization
Helping students independently
apply organization skills by
explaining the rationale behind
the skills.

31. Why teach study skills?
l I hear and I forget;
l I see and I remember
l I do and I understand
• Chinese Proverb

32. Grading/Record Keeping
Teaching students to
organize their own supplies
enable them to learn more
complex organizational
skills.

33. Multiple Intelligences
• Linguistic
(in words)
• Logical-Mathematical (by reasoning)
• Spatial (in images and pictures)
• Bodily-Kinesthetic (hands-on-learning)
• Musical (via rhythms and melodies)
• Interpersonal (social gathering)
• Intrapersonal (self-paced projects)
• Naturalist (access to nature)

34. Learning Style
Visual Learners (You have to see it to believe it)
Auditory Learners ( If you hear it, you remember it)
Tactual Learners (If you can touch it with your hands,
you will remember it)

35. Learning Style
Evaluation
l Use a document or checklist
l Read each statement
l Answer if it applies to you
l Score it - find out about your
study habits and attitudes
l Apply the information in
learning new material

36. Record Keeping
• Maintain a three-ring binder with dividers
• Notebook checklist
• Daily/weekly progress reports
• Weekly planners
• Personal evaluation checklist
• Assignment completion

37. Study Skills Log
• Learning Style
• Record Keeping
• Organization
• Time Management
• Library/Research
• Listening
• Note Taking
• Memory Skills
• Test Taking
• Oral Reports
• Reading For A Purpose
• Writing
• Math

38. Study Skills Strategies:
Meeting the Needs of Students
with Disabilities
Presented by
Frank A. Shaffer and Phyllis Seeba