How To Have Effective Study Habits
The first year of college is an eye-opening experience for freshmen. Many enter with preconceived notions of how college will be and then quickly become overwhelmed with trying to keep up for classes. They often say that 1 hour of class translates into 4 hours a week of studying. Yet many students enter college using ...
Fundamentals Of Exam Prep Beyond The Material
How many of us have stayed up all night before a big test, then go to take the test repeating material- often out loud- in an attempt at last-minute exam prep that might make a difference in our score? I am of the opinion that to take a test under-rested, under-nourished, and frazzled is counter-indicative ...
The Benefits Of Differentiated Instruction
Differentiated Instruction refers to a method of teaching and learning in which the lesson plans are tailor-made to fit individual students according to their abilities and needs. This type of teaching takes into account the student’s talents, background, learning style and interests. Since no two students are exactly alike, there are many benefits to this ...
Cooperative Learning Techniques Should Be Utilized In The Classroom
Cooperative learning techniques really enhance the learning environment and should be utilized in the classroom, in primary, secondary, and even postsecondary education. Let’s start with college-level cooperative learning techniques. Many universities now have instituted “Writing Across the Curriculum” strategies that encourages the use of written assignments campus-wide to help students learn how to communicate information. In ...
Visual Learning: Study Skills To Help You Cope
As a new college student, attending classes and making good marks is quite different than in high school. At my university, we are required to attend a class on ways of learning and methods of taking notes. Who knew there were so many ways to learn? One of the first things I learned in my ways ...
How Collaborative Learning Techniques Benefit Elementary School Students
Collaborative learning means bringing together more than one person or student and using the resources and skills of the group to come to a solution or answer. Of the many different teaching methods, collaborative learning techniques are often the least utilized. The idea behind this teaching methodology is that the success of each individual in ...
Useful Vocabulary Learning Techniques
For many of us the toughest part of learning a foreign language is not the grammar, nor the phonetics, but the vocabulary. Making up long lists of words and memorizing them is far not the best method for learning vocabulary. If you don’t want to get bogged down with endless lists of words, I suggest ...
Learning Tools: Productivity Tools
Productivity tools are designed to save your time on doing operations that are not part of your study. These learning tools will make it easier for you to sort your documents, search for programs and organize your time and activities. These are the three learning tools which I think will be most useful for you in ...
