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Important Student Notice
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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
The WebED/Canter Online courses are being discontinued as of December 31, 2006. Therefore, this course must be completed by that date.
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Introduction
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1. Course Overview
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This lesson provides an overview of the study skills progression. Participants are given suggestions for helping students organize materials, time, and ideas. The pretest will assess current knowledge of study skills.
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2. Learning and Teaching Styles
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Understanding various ways in which people learn will help educators address students' needs more effectively. In this lesson, participants will be asked to examine their own teaching methods, and consider how to make changes based on the information presented here.
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3. Organizing Study Supplies and Time
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Students must organize supplies and time in order to locate materials and be able to complete assignments on schedule. Participants will be given ideas on how to help their students organize their home and school study areas, their school supplies, and their preparation time.
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4. Reading Paragraphs: Main Idea and Details
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This lesson introduces skills that will help students understand the ways that ideas are organized in paragraphs. Participants will learn strategies for helping students find the main idea and details in a paragraph, and will be asked to create worksheets that will help students outline this information.
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5. Textbook Skills
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Textbooks can be difficult to read and study from, so it is important for students to know how to break down a large book into more manageable parts and locate key points. This lesson instructs participants to familiarize their students with the components of textbooks, and
introduces an active reading system called SQ3R. SQ3R (survey, question, read, recite, and review) is an important study tool that will help students understand and remember what they have read.
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6. Note Taking from Oral and Written Sources
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Three systems for note taking are presented in this lesson: the classic outline, the modified Cornell outline, and mapping (webbing). Given these options, students can discover which system works best for them in a variety of situations. Lesson 6 also lists ways to improve listening skills—skills that will enable students to take better lecture notes.
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7. Test-Taking Tactics and Test Preparation
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The three parts of the test-taking process—test preparation, test taking, and test analysis—are carefully examined. Helpful suggestions are given, describing ways students can schedule their time, form study groups, reduce test stress, and respond to specific types of test questions.
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8. Writing a Research Paper
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Participants will learn how to take a major project—the research or term paper—and break it into small, manageable parts. The process outlined in this lesson builds upon material presented in Lessons 1–7, for example, organizing materials, managing time efficiently, reading actively, and taking thorough notes.
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9. Homework: Parents Are Teachers, Too!
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By encouraging involvement and communication, participants can help parents help their children succeed with homework assignments—and avoid a war over homework. The lesson includes links to websites that parents can visit.
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10. Review
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In this lesson, participants will review the study skills progression, view some websites that provide additional study skills information, and take a posttest to assess their new knowledge of study skills.
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