The Studying Skills Facilitator Guide is a collection of step-by-step instructions for teaching 34 cognitive skills activities (766 minutes) to groups of youth and adults.
Knowing how to study is a fundamental skill that will dramatically increase your effectiveness as a student. The activities in this document will explore some of the principles that will increase your skill in this area, such as building study habits, avoiding the ten traps of studying, building effective study habits, avoiding procrastination, and concentrating. Activity Titles
- How Do I Learn?
- Classroom Styles
- Teacher Attitudes
- Teaching Strategies
- Teaching Strategy Quiz
- My Favorite Subjects
- Blessing or Curse?
- Problem Areas
- Rewards
- Available Study Times
- Smarter Study
- Homework Killers
- Get Organized
- Note Taking Styles
- Types of “Shorthand”
- Making It Brief
- Making It More Brief
- Innovative Notes
- Memory Maps
- Highlighting
- Computer Nerds
- What’s Important
- Reading for Raisins
- Being a Critic
- Surviving the Classics
- Two Heads May Be Better Than One
- Motivation to Study
- 5 W’s and How
- Technical Material
- Bad Reading Habits
- Watch Your Speed
- Speedier Reading
- Reading WPM
- Scanning the Page