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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