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WELCOME TO YOUR STUDY SKILLS
WEB PAGE!!
As teenagers one of the important
milestones in our lives is high school graduation.
Wow it will feel so great to be able to just do whatever we want. Sleep in late, find a full time job, buy that car we've
been dreaming about, go on a trip, or go to college. But why does it take so long? Why are some classes so hard and some
teachers so mean? Even that AIMS test is hard to pass and now we have to pass it to graduate. What do we have to
do to successfully pass all our classes and tests?
Well let's think about other areas in
our lives? How did we become such a good runner, basketball player, dancer? Practice!! Our skills did not just appear,
we had to work hard and put lots of time into getting where we are today with our skill. It is the same with academic
work. Okay, it may not be as fun but if we want to be successful in a multitude
of areas of our lives, then we also have to practice in academics. Practice in academics is called Study Skills.
Study Skills
Study
Skills are an important component of academic success
that we somehow manage to gloss over.
We need to effectively practice studying for our classes and tests. Learning
and practicing Study Skills are just as essential as the material we are studying. With today’s focus on strengthening
your academic skills, and ensuring that you are prepared to meet most of the challenges in your life, we have to find
a way to do that. So that’s how this Study Skills support page came about.
Through these pages, we will provide
support for strengthening your study skills leading to academic success. Although
there are several components to study skills we have chosen to focus on four. The four
include the learning process, taking notes, test taking and vocabulary building.
Tasks
The purpose of this site is to offer new strategies
that will help strengthen your study skills. To demonstrate and measure growth
in this direction there are several tasks that you are required to complete.
- You must select an area in each section that you will work on improving.
For instance, you may decide to utilize a strategy that will help improve your scores on
multiple choice tests. This information will be included in your essay, described below.
- As notetaking is a component of the study skills you are working on, a notebook
must be kept and contain notes from each section of this unit. Notes will be checked weekly.
- A section of your notebook will be used to record vocabulary
that you are not familiar with. This includes on each of the website links your are directed to. The words
must be recorded, defined and a sentence written showing an understanding of use.
- After you complete each section, an essay (300 words) must be written.
The essay must contain a description of what you learned, how it differs from what you have been doing and what you are going
to do to modify your practice.
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