Study Skills for Success
6th - 11th grade

Setting goals and priorities, learning to organize workloads and time, developing strategies for reading textbooks, writing papers, taking more effective notes, and how to study more efficiently for tests will be the focus of this class. Students will be guided to use these skills with the courses they are taking this semester and through in-class exercises and practice. This class can also help students with poor organizational skills
Grading: Students will be graded on a cumulative score of class participation & homework

Unit 1 Executive Functioning Overview
● Planning, Organization, Time Management, Task Initiation, Working
Memory, Metacognition, Self-Control, Attention, Flexibility, & Perseverance,
-Self reflect on strengths and weaknesses
-Self reflect on when I use each of these

Unit 2 Organization & Planning
● Take Charge of Your Schedule: how to prioritize (in-class activity)
● Organize Your Time: how to overcome “I don’t know where to start or how to get it all done”
● Organize Your Notebook(s)

Unit 3 Essay Structure
● Parts of an Essay
● Writing a 5 Paragraph Essay

Unit 4 Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligences
● VAK Learning Styles: discover my dominant learning style & strategies to help me study
● Multiple Intelligences: how I am smart, my dominant intelligence

Unit 5 Pre-Learning Strategies
● What is a Syllabus & How to Use It
● Activating Schema

Unit 6 Study Strategies
● Flashcards, Partner Quizzing
● Active Learning
● Active Reading SQ3R
● Active Listening
● Cornell Notes

Unit 7 Test Tasking Skills
● Ways to Remember Information
● Time-Spaced Flashcard Project
● Types of Test Questions & Strategies for Answering Them