Time Management and Study Skills

What type of person are you?

Type 1:

Hear a name and remember it? Remember a sermon

without an outline? Would rather give a 10 minute speech than write
a 10 page paper?

Type 2:

Need to see someones name on a nametag to

remember their name? Can picture your notes on the page in your
notebook? Would you rather write a paper than give a speech? Do
you use To Do list and check off items as you go?

Type 3:

Do you feel you learn more with school labs and

fieldtrips than in the classroom? Would you rather create a collage
or display board as opposed to a paper or speech?

Learning Styles
Type 1: Auditory Learner
Type 2: Visual Learner
Type 3: Kinesthetic Learner
What does that mean???

Learning Styles - EARS

Auditory learners receive information best by
hearing and give answers best verbally.
Positives:

Excellent in class discussions

Enjoy talking in general
Remember information from lectures and discussions
Think and talk simultaneously

Learning Styles - EARS

Negatives:
Speak without thinking first
Easily interested by neighbors, noise
Can be overwhelmed by large reading and
writing assignments.
Tend to skip instructions on tests, miss details
in multiple choice questions
Tend to read aloud (subvocalize) in order to
process information through ears

Learning Styles EYES

Visual learners take in information by seeing it,
reading it, and usually give answers best by
writing.
Positive: school is made for you!!

Read the words on the board

Write in your planner
Read the chapter
Write an essay
Fill in the circle, make no stray marks!!
Do not interrupt or talk to your neighbor in class.

Learning Styles - EYES

Negatives:
Miss verbal directions or assignments
Lose track of classroom discussion
Distracted by loud, noisy environments
Become bored during lectures
Score low on listening skills section of tests
More difficulty learning a foreign language

Learning Styles - Kinesthetic

Kinesthetic learners take in material best
when touch, texture, and movement is
presented. They give answers best when
a variety of modes are allowed such as
art, design, presentation, discussion, and
acting.
Positives:
Creative, global thinking, out of the box
solutions to problems.

Learning Styles - Kinesthetic

Negatives:

One-style, visual or auditory, can be missed

Too many details can cause brain-freeze
Tend to be moving, active, fidgety in class
Tend to have reading difficulties, dyslexia
Tend to feel dumb for missing details despite having
great creativity and often high intelligence.
Require more teaching modalities for success

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Organizational Skills

Organizational Skills
Brain dominant side concept
Left Brain logical, orderly, step by step
Right Brain global, gestalt, intuitive
Not 100% either but tend toward one type
Notice each side is OK not right or wrong

Organizational Skills
Left Brain Type
Tends to approach material step by step
Seeks to place things in linear order
Enjoys to do lists, checking off one after
another.
Likes math, science, law, visual order
Naturally more organized than others
Less comfortable with interpretive art, poetic
reading, mood and symbolism

Organizational Skills
Right Brain Type
Approaches material more randomly
Places things in spatial, 3D view
Likes a flexible, changing to do format
Enjoys, language, art, literature, history
Tends to appear disorganized
Less comfortable with linear to do lists, math,
showing all the steps in homework.

Organizational Skills
Problem: A Mismatch of skills and tasks!
School success requires the Left Brain student to
interpret and think abstractly in literature, history,
philosophy, and art despite feeling bored by vague
discussions.
School success requires the Right Brain student to
arrange papers in an orderly, consistent way, to write
down to do items, to show all the steps in a math
problem, and to maintain focus on details every day.

Organizational Skills
Solution:
Recognize the Challenge
Customize the organizational skills to the
type of student.
Encourage the Left Brain type to think
outside the box puzzles, art, practice
Encourage the Right Brain type to learn
the skills needed to be detail-oriented.

Organizational Skills - What

Three main ways to keep papers:

1. Traditional binder, with 3 hole punch, tabbed
dividers, lined paper, pockets for handouts.
2. Accordion File, with labeled tabs for
subjects, and spiral-bound notebooks for
taking notes in class.
3. Folders for each subject with paper for
notes, pockets for handouts, assignments.

Organizational Skills - What

Traditional binder, with 3 hole punch,
tabbed dividers, lined paper, pockets for
handouts
Positive: Holds all subjects, (can have
separate binders for classes also), one thing
to carry to each class
Negative: Many students are in such a hurry
that they dont take the time to put papers in
the proper places. Requires thinning, filing.

Organizational Skills - What

The PLANNER Assignment Book
When
Was it assigned?
Is it due?
Will I work on this?
Will I get each step done?

Organizational Skills - Where

A Place to Study
Quiet
Consistent not the kitchen table
Blah surroundings not visually distracting
Supplies available dictionary, tools, paper,
water bottle, timer, calendar
File box or drawer with labeled folders

Time Management
Analyze current daily schedule & activities

Wake up, get ready for school, leave house

End of school, getting home
Activities, meetings, chores
Sleep time

Time Management
How much time is LEFT OVER for
homework?
What is your best time of day to study?
Make a schedule
Use a timer
Take short breaks (time them also!)
Reward yourself for finishing tasks

Time Management
To Do Lists
Linear Left Brain type
Traditional to do list, check off in order
Prioritize the tasks easy, medium, difficult or
favorite, OK, least favorite.
Start off with a medium, take a break, get going on
the harder tasks, finish, then do easy tasks.

Time Management
Global, Right-Brain Type

Write assignments or subjects on sticky notes

Arrange sticky notes on a clipboard
Estimate time required for each task
Re-arrange placement of sticky notes by preference,
ease, or time required
Remove the sticky note when task completed
Take brief, timed breaks, using timer

Time Management
Getting Homework DONE
Be REALISTIC about how long things take
DIVIDE large tasks into smaller ones with
shorter time frames, personal due dates
START a task, write down your ideas, begin
the reading = ANYTHING to get started.
Now that you have started, plan out how to
finish on time.

Time Management
Drinking from the Fire Hydrant
When there isnt enough time to do it all
Learn to Get the Big Picture
Do the most important, costly work first
Skim and review the main ideas
Do something for each subject daily, even if
there is no assignment that day.

Study Skills - Reading

The word Reading represents several
types of skills
Recognizing letters and words
Processing the symbols for meaning
Connecting new information to old
Creating a mental picture of what is written
Processing ideas and concepts as one reads
Reading ACTIVELY - critically for meaning

Study Skills - Reading

What is ACTIVE reading?
NOT like reading the cereal box
MORE like hunting for a certain phone
number in the phone book
EVEN MORE like re-reading a romantic note
from a friend
ACTIVE reading calls for purpose, an alert
mind, a sense of searching, and a belief that
there is something to be gained by reading.

Study Skills - Reading

Purpose
Go after each text with a purpose

Alert Mind
Awake, sitting up, leaning forward

Sense of searching
Search hard for information and meaning

Belief that you will find something

Expect to learn something new and find it

Study Skills Read the Chapter

When the teacher says, Read chapter 5
for tomorrow, you should hear:
Review all the chapter headings
Review the sub-headings
Look at the pictures, read the captions
Study the diagrams, maps, tables
Write down the new vocabulary
Then, read the text!

Study Skills Read the Chapter

Why go to so much trouble?
You will get the overview and have places to
file the details when you come to them.
You will have reviewed the main ideas at least
four times
You will be more ready for a quiz than if you
started the first page, got sleepy on the
second page, and never finished the chapter.

Study Skills - Math

Mathematics, algebra, geometry these
subjects build step by step on previous
concepts.
If the current math material is very difficult, it
may be that previous concepts or memorized
facts are missing
Success in math depends on attention to details,
showing all work, and keeping up with daily
assignments.

Study Skills - Math

Help for the Right-Brain math student
Tell your instructor you may need extra help
Find or ask for ways to learn math concepts
with hands-on tools.
Use enough space on your papers to show all
your work easily, without having to cramp
your handwriting.
Show every step of a problem, even if it
seems silly to do so.

Study Skills Vocabulary

Vocabulary is easier with words in context
The text puts words into sentences already
Memorize the whole sentence if necessary
Make up odd associations with new words
Sounds like, reminds you of, looks like

Study Skills- Test Preparation

DONT ONLY STUDY THE NIGHT BEFORE*

Review as you go
Save quizzes and homework
Dont study what you already know well
Make up study cards for difficult areas
***Of course, review some details, but it is really
too late to learn new material. Relax, sleep
enough, eat a healthy breakfast.

Study Skills Test Taking

Eat enough protein for breakfast

Keep up with water ounce per pound per day
Get enough sleep
Learn how to calm yourself with prayer, slow, deep
breaths, memorized Bible verses.
Bring extra pens and pencils
Expect to think clearly you have prepared well
Keep track of time as you work through the test.

Study Skills Seminar Goals

Identify main learning styles

Review organizational skills
Highlight Time Management basics
Target specific study skills for
Reading,
Chapter review in any subject area,
math,
Tests: preparing and taking with success

Study Skills Resources

Your teachers
Guidance counselor
Your parents
Books see bibliography
Websites see list
Your rights U.S. Gov Americans with
Disabilities Act, section 504