Even if you have been taking my advice and making some progress with your study skills this school year, I’m sure many of you are still quite tempted to tune out when you see the title of this post. I am not the first person to recommend that you complete some of your schoolwork on …
In my last post, I discussed the importance of taking responsibility for your schoolwork, both successes and failures, and how making sure to give yourself credit for positive outcomes can help you take responsibility for negative ones. I don’t know if you noticed it, but the one word I did not use in that entire …
If you are someone who has struggled with your studies in any way, I imagine you’ve heard, from teachers, parents, or both, that you need to take responsibility for your work. Maybe someone has actually accused you of being irresponsible- when work is missing or late, when you don’t contribute enough to a group project, …
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In addition to telling my students to use their time wisely, I also emphasized how important it was that they learn to set priorities, both with their time in general and with their schoolwork in particular. The younger you are, the more you depend on parents and teachers to set priorities for you, but as …
No matter which study skills are your strengths and which are your weaknesses, just about all of you could probably find ways to better manage your time. While some teachers and parents emphasize the positive steps you can take, like keeping assignment books and calendars and setting schedules and using timers, and others offer various …
Though I have already mentioned it in previous posts, I cannot overstate the importance of following directions to having good study skills and increasing your chances at success. Though you may find it tempting to tune out your teachers’ oral directions and/or ignore or gloss over their written ones, making a concerted effort to follow …
In my last post, I wrote about how the beginning of the new calendar year is a good time to set study skills goals, even though the new calendar year falls in the middle of the school year, and could fall at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a grading period, …
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Since you are already familiar with New Year’s resolutions, it should not surprise you to realize that the beginning of the new calendar year is a good time to set study skills goals. Even though the new calendar year falls in the middle of the school year, and could fall at the beginning, in the …
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Even though this is, as I’ve already titled a previous post, a “year like no other,” the holidays will still provide a welcome break from your studies, whether they have been virtual, in-person, or a combination of both. While you may be anticipating your celebrations, whatever form they will take, while planning to give little …
Once you’ve taken some of the suggestions from my last post and are feeling confident that you have not just studied, but have actually prepared to do well, you may be wondering just how to take all your newfound confidence and apply it to the test itself. Now matter how well you feel you’ve prepared …
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