Good study habits and techniques are critical to help students learn more efficiently, feel more academically confident, persevere through challenges, and ultimately do their best. Sometimes, it's easy to assume that learners already have these skills intact. The truth is that they sometimes don't;
Study skills and executive functioning skills can be hard for middle schoolers to master. This fun and informative flipbook introduces middle schoolers to a number of study skills and strategies including learning styles, improving focus, good study habits, time management, organization, and more. After assembling the flipbook, students will complete several interactive activities including a self-assessment, flipbook scavenger hunt, time audit, schedule organizer, and more!This Download Contains:♦ Middle School Study Skills flipbook (color and blackline versions included)♦ study skills self-assessment and reflection sheet♦ flipbook scavenger hunt (2 pages with answer key)♦ time audit activity♦ my schedule and my locker break organizer♦ sharing our class study skills organizer Format: PDF Teachers are saying: "This is a fantastic resource, particularly as an introduction for organization study skills at the middle level. Really excited to continue building upon this resource with my students."
Good study habits and techniques are critical to help students learn more efficiently, feel more academically confident, persevere through challenges, and ultimately do their best. Sometimes, it's easy to assume that learners already have these skills intact. The truth is that they sometimes don't;
There is no way you can read through a whole textbook word for word, unless of course you have ample time on your hands. Even I, as an instructor, can understand that. This is why it is so crucial to learn how to take good notes and I’m going to teach you how to do it! Below I am sharing five tips & strategies on how to take good notes and make sure you focus on important information and how to identify material that could be on the exam. This is coming from a professor who has created exams in the past. Where do I get my questions from? What do I suggest and recommend students study from? You might want to read below to find out more. Let’s jump right into it! Tip #1: Go to class and take good notes during lectures. Listen to your professors. Many times they mention things that are not on the power-point but are in the book and most times these points are important to know and WILL be on the test. A good professor gives you the information that is on the power-point. A GREAT professor elaborates for better understanding and doesn’t just read the power-point. The problem is, how do you know what is important? During lecture: As mentioned above, a professor will state when something is important to know or remember. WRITE THAT DOWN! If they are going over something repeatedly, WRITE THAT DOWN! There is a reason why they have mentioned something more than once, it is because it’s important and might be on the test. No need to write the same thing multiple times on paper. One time is enough. Just RECOGNIZE the fact that if he/she keeps repeating it is important. Placing words like *know this* after a sentence you just wrote will help you remember later on that the professor said to KNOW THIS. You will focus more on this material when studying because you know if you wrote that it’s because at that very moment the professor said this information was important to know. Your professors might also add different scenarios or experiences they have had as healthcare providers. No need to write each scenario out or jot down too many examples but writing one or two examples of a subject content is key in relating the information to a real-life experience. This will help you understand later on when studying by bringing that subject content to life. Tip #2: Skim through the textbook. There is just far too much information in your assigned readings and all of it seems so important. Am I right?! The first step before taking a deep dive into your assigned chapters is to skim through them first. How to skim through a chapter in your textbook but obtain necessary information for note taking: Always look at tables, pictures, figures, illustrations because professors love to get questions from those areas. I have included a picture of these areas as examples. Read highlighted/bolded vocabulary. Review study questions and summary points at end of chapter. Examples are always important to write down when note taking. Not only do they help you understand but can be used in exams as questions. Repeated information is repeated for a reason. When you see different areas going over the same content consider it important. Tip# 3: After skimming, concentrate on essential material in textbook. Once you have briefly skimmed over the chapter you can go back to certain topics you know will be on your test based on rubrics or what your professor has told you. Go over those topics in more detail – read the chapter. If you don’t understand a word, look it up! This will help you better understand the material. If you are keeping the book, you can write on the margin of the paragraphs or if you are planning to return/re-sell a book, you can use a post it and stick it on. I find highlighting the important parts of the chapter really helps. Those areas that explain in detail the pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, interventions are highlightable items. All of that is ALWAYS important and serves as GREAT material for an exam question. In the textbook, you can highlight with one color what you find important, then highlight what the instructor went over with another color. You can also add comments of things the professor said in the margins. Here’s that million-dollar question again, how do you know what is important? In textbook: Explanations or details that are elaborated on, especially material that include examples are usually important to jot down . Include those examples in your notes so you can understand the material and apply it to a scenario. However, do not keep is as lengthy as the textbook. This is key in note taking. You want to keep it short and sweet in a way you can remember. Using acronyms can also help as long as you remember what your acronym means. (e.g., the famous naughty but catchy cranial nerve acronym.OOOTTAFAGVSH = Oh, Oh, Oh, to touch and feel a girls vagina, so hot.) It not only helps you remember the order of the cranial nerves 1-12 but the first letter of each name. Smart, right? Making up songs or phrases are also creative ways to remember content, as well. Tip #4: Review your notes within 24 hours. After class, always review your notes within 24 hours. Academic skill centers suggest reviewing these notes within 24 hours can increase learning capacity. When writing notes in class, they usually tend to be a bit messy since you are writing quickly and trying to capture critical information. When you review them within that 24 hour period I suggest re-writing them as well. While you are re-writing them you can compare your notes to textbook information and add those textbook notes to the specific topic areas. Tip #5: Time to re-write your notes using different colors. Use different colors when re-writing your final draft of notes. There are 3 different sources of information when writing your notes and they should all be in different colors. This helps you reference where you got the material from. What you gathered from lecture – different color (majority of info will be this color) What instructor says is important – different color or highlighted. Include *KNOW THIS* What is written in textbook – different color If you haven’t had time to look through the book you can rewrite your notes and leave spaces in between different topics. This is to leave room for any notes you need to add from the book. When re-writing your notes, try to re-write in a way that YOU understand. This is key for good note taking. Re-write textbook explanations in your own words so that you can understand what it means. For example: if the textbook says: “Hirschprungs disease, or aganglionic megacolon, occurs when there is an absence of ganglionic innervation to the muscle of a segment of the bowel.” Leifer, G. (2015). Introduction to maternity & pediatric nursing (7th ed.). St. Louis, Mo.: Elsevier/Saunders., What to do: First, look up any key terms that you may not know. This is essential in being able to paraphrase to what YOU can understand. Let’s look up innervation and ganglionic. Innervation= supply an organ or body part with nerves Ganglionic = group of neuron cells in the peripheral system Now that we know this, you can write: “Hirschsprungs Disease is when there is an absence of nerve cell supply in a part of the bowels.” OR “Hirschsprungs disease is when there are ganglionic nerve cells missing from a certain section of the bowels” This makes it easier for you to remember and understand when studying. I really hope these tips and strategies help you improve your note taking skills from lecture and from the textbook. They were definitely techniques I used that taught me how to take good notes as a student. I have also used these techniques when creating exam questions as a Professor. If you have any comments or tips that you can add to this list, please feel free to comment and share your note taking tips below! This is a space for learning and would love to hear what has worked for you. ‘till next time, The RN Educator
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Teach your secondary students all of the essential academic skills they need to succeed this year with this Student Skills Bundle for Google Drive! With this bundle, help your students write better emails, stay organized, work well in groups, take better notes, improve their time management, study more effectively, improve their test-taking skills, advocate for themselves, and more! Save over 30% on these academic and life skills essentials when you purchase them together in this bundle! This bundle includes the following 9 resources: Email Etiquette Lesson: How to Write an Email Internet Etiquette Station Activity: Evaluate Online Sources, Avoid Plagiarism, Internet Safety 101, and Avoid Cyberbullying Group Project 101: Group Work Expectations Google Slideshow and Activity Student Organization Tools and Weekly Student Planners Time Management Activities for Google Drive and PDF How to Take Notes Lesson and Notes Templates How to Study | Study Skills Lesson Test-Taking Strategies Slideshow and Bulletin Board Kit Self-Advocacy Reading Passage and Scenarios These resources are flexible and helpful tools to keep on hand so you can implement them whenever the need strikes, such as before a group project or before a big test! Please note that many of these resources are digital and require computer access. You can use them in any order that you wish! Some of the resources in this bundle will go directly to your TpT Purchases folder of your Google Drive account after completing your purchase. If you have any technical issues, reach out to us at [email protected] or contact TPT. Want to save even more? Grab this Life Skills Mega Bundle to get all of these resources and more for over 40% off!
Chapter Summary Sheet for Students | By Study Creations This Chapter Summary sheet is the perfect tool for revising and reviewing a subject chapter! Condensing your the key information is important for quick and easy revision, so this Chapter Summary is perfect for writing key points and keeping the whole chapter summarised in one place! It also comes with a checklist at the side to make sure you've included everything in your revision. You'll find yourself revising for assessments and exams more effectively with this Chapter Summary Sheet. - 1 page / A4 and A3 size - Instant download - Generous margins for hole-punching and filing What's included: • 2 X PDF (A4 and A3 sizes) • PDF includes 1 page This printable can also be used with digital note-taking apps! This is an instant download - no physical product will be shipped. The files become available to download upon purchase. You will receive a link to download your printable PDF files that you can: • print at home on your home printer • take to your local print shop UNLIMITED PRINTS! *Please note that artwork and colours cannot be edited or changed in these files. How this works: • Add this item to your cart • Choose your payment method • Once payment is completed you will receive an instant download link to access your downloadable files. No physical items will be sent to you. • Download the files. • After downloading the files, you can print as many times as you like! Files can be opened in Adobe Acrobat Reader (Free download link here: www.get.adobe.com/reader) Text can be added using programs such as Adobe Reader and Preview. Text can be edited using Adobe Acrobat Pro. Your printer can scale the size of the document to your preference. All designs included are original and copyright to Study Creations. They are for your personal use only and sharing, copying and reproducing commercially in any shape or form is prohibited. If you have any problems, please contact me via Etsy! Study Creations is a new Etsy store - share with friends if you like this product! Thank you so much for shopping at Study Creations! x
Discover 8 powerful note-taking strategies tailored for nursing students to stay organized, enhance retention, and excel in your coursework. Improve your study skills and academic success with these essential tips
Ask any teacher or parent and they will tell you: middle schoolers are terrible at studying. There are two main reasons for this.
This study guide is the perfect tool to help students identify effective studying, organization, and assessment techniques that work for them. This study guide/booklet activity is a great way to facilitate discussions on studying and can be used as a tool for students to refer back to throughout the school year. Complete with tips, resources, and goal setting, this is a great way to support student learning, skill development and growth. The study guide can be completed individually, in groups, or as a whole class! This product contains the ready to print study guide and two editable templates so teachers can customize the guide if they would like (optional but you can also use it as is). It also includes printing instructions to make creating the guides as easy and time efficient as possible (tip: have your students help you cut/assemble the guide to get them more involved and reduce prep time!).
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Ask any teacher or parent and they will tell you: middle schoolers are terrible at studying. There are two main reasons for this.
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Giving classroom jobs to middle school and high school students allows them to feel useful and creates a sense of belonging in the classroom. In applying for and carrying out classroom jobs, students will practice real world skills plus it takes a few tasks off your plate, allowing you to focus more on instruction. Read on for how to get started and ideas for jobs.
This is such a crazy time with most schools transitioning to online classes. For most of us, online classes are foreign territory and were not our first choice. Taking classes online is great for some people! However, for others, it can be hard to stay focused and turn in work on time. As someone who …
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These reflective journal prompts are perfect for students in middle school (and beyond) to help students develop self-awareness, critical thinking skills, and creativity.
Ask any teacher or parent and they will tell you: middle schoolers are terrible at studying. There are two main reasons for this.
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In many ways, strong executive functioning skills are the foundation for success. These are the mental processes that help learners plan through assignments, organize materials, initiate a task, manage time well, stay focused, try new strategies when stuck, and persevere until the completion of a go
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The Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills- Revised (ABLLS-R) is a criterion referenced assessment used to assess the strengths and deficits of children with language delays. It was originally written in 1998 by James Partington and Mark Sundberg. If that second name sounds familiar, that’s because he also wrote the Verbal Behavior Milestone Assessment […]
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A group of strategic abilities known as organization skills aid students in making the best use of their time and effort to accomplish their objectives. Both effective study techniques and organization are crucial in the classroom. For students, being organized is particularly important because it assists them to learn
Tips and resources that can help your middle school students get and stay organized this school year and every school year.
