We hear the term study skills all the time don't we? Like the importance of study skills and the need to have good study skills but what exactly are study skills? What do they comprise of? Study skills, of course, is a broad term. It pretty much means "How do you study?" So...how do you study? What do you do when you study? How effective are you being? The thing is that as students most of us rarely (if ever) ask ourselves these questions. We rarely stop and take a look at what we're doing. We just do our work and kind of think....'well if I do my work and work hard then I will do well.'
As you know, this reasoning is overly simple and misses out on the whole point of learning. When it comes to learning and studying it's now what you do or even how much of it that you do...it's how you do it. The how is the crucial element to study success. And it is that 'how to study' that I aim to share with you on this blog and my other pages. I have spent years figuring out how the best students study (check out about me section if you're interested in learning more). And what I've found, as I'm sure you'd guess, is that the top students all share similar study skills. They all do similar things on a consistent basis. And it is those things that produce their consistently high results. So what comes from that is that if we can do those same things then, over time, we can expect a strong surge in our grades. When we change the how (our study skills) we change the end (grades and enjoyment levels).
Please join me in learning more about study skills...
Sunday, March 8, 2009
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Hi Mike,
ReplyDeleteWow, fantastic advice you have, all your advices
are really common sense and advices that we got when we grew up. It looks like with time some basic knowledge got forgotten, it is like the money management course I am teaching, it used to be common but disappeared over the years.
Good stuff!
Edna
The advice you have given is solid. It would be great if there were parenting classes on "Commom sense". But, I truly understand that it cannot be taught. Parents need to set boundaries for children and this begins in the very young years of a childs life. Many parents are cowards and are afraid to set boundaries and this leads to insecurties in the child. They look for boundaries and often times when they find the boundary they have pushed too far.
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