A Toolbox of Ideas for Helping Your Children Study More Effectively

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A Toolbox of Ideas for Helping Your Children
Study More Effectively

• Teresa Massey
• Study Skills Consultant
• Chemeketa Community College
• tmassey_at_chemeketa.edu

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How We Practice

• Based on
• Understanding of the task
• Student learning preferences
• How the brain stores and retrieves information

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How the Brain Stores Retrieves Information

• Help your brain learn
• Attend
• Organize
• Make it memorable

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HELP YOUR BRAIN

• Get enough sleep
• Drink enough water
• Keep a healthy blood sugar level
• Eat brain-friendly food
• Handle anxiety

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ATTEND

• Let the brain know the information is important
  enough to remember.
• Avoid distractions
• Ask questions
• Think about what you already know
• Use your learning preferences

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Avoid Distractions

• Learning Environment
• Internal Distractions

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Learning Preferences

• Auditory
• Visual
• Tactile/Kinesthetic

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ORGANIZE
Help the brain see the patterns and connections

• Time Management
• Determine what is important
• Reading a textbook
• Taking lecture notes
• Have a Study Plan

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TIME MANAGEMENT
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Keys to Effective Time Management

• Be organized
• - keep track of assignments due
• dates
• -have organized notebooks
• Estimate how much time is needed to complete an
  assignment or study for a test
• Know the best times for you to study
• Keep daily to-do lists that are prioritized

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JCU Study Skills Online http//www.jcu.edu.au/stud
ying/services/studyskills/notetaking/reviewing.htm
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RESEARCH ABOUT PROCRASTINATION

• Students who do not procrastinate are motivated
  by both intrinsic and extrinsic forces.
• Students who procrastinate tend to be motivated
  only by extrinsic forces.
• Procrastination leads to lower grades and
  increased stress and anxiety
• Source Brownlow Reasinger, Putting off until
  tomorrow what is better done today Academic
  procrastination as a function of motivation
  toward college work. Journal of Social Behavior
  and Personality 15(2000)15-34

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Cognitive Distortions Made by Academic
Procrastinators

• Overestimating how much time is left to complete
  your work
• Underestimating how much time is left to complete
  your work
• Overestimation of how motivated you will be to
  complete your work at a later time
• Belief that you can only do the work well if you
  are in the mood to work on it
• Procrastination Task Avoidance, Ferrar,
  Johnson, McCowan, 1995

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NOTE TAKING
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Note Taking Formats

• Outline
• Cornell
• Split Page
• Map

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OUTLINE

• Causes of Stress
• 1. Pressure
• Def. - feel they must live up to
  standard of beh. or adapt to rapid change
• 2 Kinds of Pressure
• 1. internal
• self-esteem
• constructive or destructive
• 2. external
• pressure to compete
• rapid state of change
• family/friends
• 2. Anxiety
• Def doesnt know why they are
  frightened or upset
• Psychoanalytic theory sign of
  internal, unconscious conflict
• 3. Frustration
• Def prevented from reaching a goal
• 5 sources
• 1. delays

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CORNELL METHOD
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SPLIT PAGE
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Three Column Method
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CONCEPT MAP
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Mind Mapping Software

• Kidspiration
• From Inspiration Software
• http//inspiration.com
• Can be downloaded for a free trial

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TEST PREPARATION(aka STUDYING)
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TEST PREPARATION

• Organize your study
• Use multiple study techniques
• Begin each study time with a review
• Predict test questions both rote conceptual
• Manage your time effectively
• Self-test. Know you know it!

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MAKE MEMORABLE

• Strategies to retain information that youve
  organized. Based on
• Learning preferences
• Objectives
• Rote
• Conceptual

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MEMORY STRATEGIES
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Rote

• Mnemonics acronyms, acrostics, songs rhymes,
  location, imagery, word associations
• Repetition
• Flash Cards
• Use Color, Movement

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Acronyms

• Order for Math Calculations
• PEMDAS Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication,
  Division, Addition, Subtraction
• (Or Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.)
• Conjunctions Between Independent Clauses that
  Require a Comma
• FAN BOYS for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so

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Acrostics

• Order of the planets
• My Very Earthy Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.
• Great Lakes
• Super Machine Heaved Earth Out.
• (or HOMES)

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Memory Websites

• The following songs come from
• http//faculty.washington.edu/chulder/songs.html
• Other sites
• http//faculty.washington.edu/chudler.neurok.html
• (Neuroscience for kids)
• www.caine.learning.com
• (Has free information to download)
• www.dana.org
• www.sfn.org (Society for Neuroscience)
• (Can download Brain Facts)

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Songs Rhymes

• "Old McScientist Had a Brain
• Song from third grade HORIZONS Students at Big
  Creek Elementary,Forsyth County Schools,
  Cumming, Georgia. Teacher Stephanie Silvestro
• (Sung to the tune of Old McDonald Had a Farm)
• Old McScientist had a brain with many neurons in
  it.And in that brain he had a cerebrum to help
  him make decisions.Cerebrum here, Cerebrum
  there, Cerebrum Cerebrum everywhere.Old
  McScientist had a brain with many neurons in
  it.And in that brain he had a cerebellum to help
  him keep his balance.Cerebellum here, Cerebellum
  there, Cerebellum, Cerebellum everywhere.Old
  McScientist had a brain with many neurons in
  it.And in that brain he had a Brain Stem to keep
  his heart a beatin'.Brain Stem here, Brain Stem
  there, Brain Stem Brain Stem everywhere.Old
  McScientist had a brain with many neurons in it!

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Word Association

• A principal is a pal
• A principle is a rule
• A stalagmite grows from the ground
• A stalactite hangs from the ceiling

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Conceptual

• Recite explain in your own words.
• Create charts, maps, outlines. Then try to
  recreate them without looking.
• Use flash cards to create maps.

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Create a Map of the Terms

• VASCULAR TISSUE SYSTEM
• XYLEM
• PHLOEM
• TRACHEIDS
• VESSEL ELEMENTS
• SIEVE-TUBE MEMBERS
• XYLEM VESSELS
• PITS
• SIEVE PLATES
• COMPANION CELL
• ANGIOSPERM

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• Angiosperm
  
• vascular tissue system
• xylem
  pholem
• tracheids vessel elements sieve tube
  members
• pits xylem vessel
• sieve plates
• companion cell
• 
  

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Self-Monitoring

• Awareness
• Assessment
• Management