Study Skills

Standard

The tutor has developed a repertoire of effective study skills or strategies to utilize to enhance learning new information (e.g., effective time management, organization, note-taking, test taking, motivation, acquisition, retention, performance, anxiety reduction).

Outcome

The tutor articulates, models and integrates a variety of appropriate study skills into the tutoring session and provides the tutee with content-specific tips and techniques to incorporate at key points, such as preparing for class; homework; preparing for exams; writing papers; etc.

Study skills are essential for being a good student yourself and being a good tutor. Good study skills will enable to you succeed with much less stress, therefore making it a vital skill to teach tutees.

Study skills are one of the few things that we encourage you teach to your tutee.

Models

This video talks about a few excellent strategies for studying effectively, as well as highlighting some poor strategies that you should avoid.

After watching the video, try to recall: What strategies did he suggest you avoid? What strategies did he suggest? How do you remember material more efficiently?

This video talks about an effective way to take the most out of reading through a textbook. Most of us college students have already felt the pain of having to read through a textbook. This video should help prevent you from needing to read the textbook two or three times!

After reading, try to recall: What does SQ3R stand for? When is this strategy applicable? How would you teach it to someone else?

This video is a bit longer, but talks about one of the most fundamental strategies for being an effective student: Time management! Time management is so critical to having less stress and feeling more confident in your ability to succeed. Not much else to say here, this is a must learn.

After watching this video, consider the following questions:

Where should you start if you're beginning to put these strategies into practice?

What habits should you keep an eye on in an attempt to keep good time management?

This last video talks about the Cornell note-taking strategy. Organizing your notes in this manner can be very helpful when viewed later on for review. It gives allows your review to include deep processing as opposed to simply looking over and rereading your notes. Taking an active role in your reviewing process will make that time spent much more efficient.

After watching this video, try to recall each step of the Cornell note process, as well as the purpose of each step.

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