Study Skills

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Study Skills

Why Do I need Study Skills?

• Useful• Builds self-confidences • Learning how to learn• Learn and use note-taking and test taking

skills• Recognizing the ability to succeed

How do you focus?• Learning styles

– Know how you learn– Combine How and Why

and What you learn– Be aware of the time and

environment where you learn best

– Apply various learning activities to meet your needs

– Utilize all your senses in learning something

– Apply how you learn to all new situations

– Be flexible in your thinking and learning

– Intentionally decide which learning modality to use

– Analyze your teacher’s teaching style and apply appropriate learning strategies

– Creatively adapt materials to best fit your personal learning strengths.

What is your learning style?

• You learn through three basic modalities which use your senses.– Visual (seeing)– Auditory (hearing)– Kinesthetic (feeling and doing)

*It is important to learn how you presently take in and process information.

Visual Characteristics

• Mind sometimes strays during verbal activities

• Observes rather than talks or acts

• Likes to read• Organized in approach

to tasks• Usually a good speller• Memorizes by seeing

• Remember faces• Quiet by nature• Uses advanced planning• Doodles• Quiet by nature • Notices details • Has good handwriting• Finds verbal instruction

difficult

Auditory Characteristics

• Talks to self aloud• Enjoys talking• Easily distracted• Has more difficulty with

written directions• Likes to be read to• Enjoys music• Whispers to self while

reading

• Remembers faces• Hums or sings• Outgoing in nature• Enjoys listening

activities• Easily distracted by

noises

Kinesthetic Characteristics

• Likes physical rewards• In motion most of the

time• Likes to touch people

when talking to them• Taps pencil or foot

while studying• Enjoys doing activities• Reading is not a priority

• Poor speller• Likes to solve problems

by physically working through them

• Will try new things• Uses hands while

talking • Dresses for comfort• Will try new things

How to strengthen your learning style-Visual

• Use Mnemonics• Form pictures in your

mind• Take notes• Use notebooks• Use color coding• Use charts, graphs• Create and use

drawings

• Use photographic pictures

• Use maps• Demonstrate• Use study/flash cards• Watch movies

How to strengthen your learning style- Auditory

• Use tapes• Watch TV• Listen to music• Speak and listen to

speakers• Listen carefully• Use oral directions• Have discussions

• Talk to yourself• Use theater• Make up rhymes or

poems• Read aloud• Use oral directions

How to strengthen your learning style - Kinesthetic

• Pace or walk as you study

• Physically do it• Take notes• Stretch and move in

chair• Use mnemonics

• Write lists repeatedly• Write on surfaces with

finger• Exercise• Dance• write

Elements for Better Learning

• Have the right attitude• Avoid distractions• Use the right tools– Hear it – See it– Say it– Write it– Do it

What will be focus on in this class

• Organization skills• Time Management• Note-taking skills• Reading skills• Test-taking skills• Math word problems

Materials needed

• Notebook binder• Folders with pockets• Accordion File• Calendar planner• Dividers with color tabs

• Weekly Review form• Homework Checklist• Notebook paper• Pens and Pencils

Steps to easier learning

Results of Easier Learning

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