Tag Archives: study skills
Pause and Reflect: A Simple Way to Increase Student Learning
In the rush to pack classes with exciting activities, time for review and reflection often gets squeezed out. But those rare quiet moments are essential to effective learning. They allow students to consolidate their learning, commit new information to memory, assess their understanding, and identify areas for more practice. The basic ingredients to a …
Becoming More Effective Learners
We all have ways to get the most out of our study time. Some of us work best in the early morning. Others do better burning that midnight oil. Over many years, we have developed study and work habits that support our strengths.
Spelling and Visualization
Spelling those sight words in English is a challenge for us all, but it’s a particular challenge for our low-level literacy students. This is a technique I learned from a Special Education teacher. It really works!
Getting Organized: Student Binders and Homework Papers
Class time is so precious; I hate to waste it on students’ looking for papers, so I run a pretty tight organization regime. This is what I do.
