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Title: Study Skills Strategies: Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities


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Study Skills StrategiesMeeting the Needs of
Students with Disabilities
  • Presented by
  • Frank A. Shaffer and Phyllis Seeba

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

3
Learning difficulties will affect a students
ability to self design and independently apply
study skills strategies.
4
About Metacognition
  • Metacognition is used in education to describe
    the learning process.
  • 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
  • Weak attention controls
  • Reduced remembering
  • Deficient output
  • Chronic misunderstanding
  • Delayed skills acquisition
  • Poor adaptation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18
To ensure that students learn and apply study
skills
  • Orientation
  • Activation
  • Maintenance
  • 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 students 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 ones 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.

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Why teach study skills?
  • I hear and I forget
  • I see and I remember
  • 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
  • Use a document or checklist
  • Read each statement
  • Answer if it applies to you
  • Score it - find out about your study habits and
    attitudes
  • 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
  • Self Advocacy

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Study Skills StrategiesMeeting the Needs of
Students with Disabilities
  • Presented by
  • Frank A. Shaffer and Phyllis Seeba
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