Attitude & Learning Styles
Thinking about how you think
What is metacognition?
This person is your very best teacher.
Who is you?
Just listening to a lecture or watching a film about what's being taught in class is an example of this type of learning.
What is PASSIVE learning?
This is what you should do with your notes every evening
What is review your notes? (edit, revise, summarize and reflect on them)
The specific area(s) where you complete your homework everyday.
What is your study space?
The most important person for your success
Who is YOU?
Besides relying on their teacher, smart students know that these other people can also help them learn.
Who are classmates?
This three column chart shows you what you know, what you want to know and what you've learned.
What is a K-W-L chart?
This type of note taking creates a picture of the information you've learned.
What is mind mapping?
This is how your binder should be organized.
What are with labeled dividers for each of your subjects?
Knowing this allows you to learn “your way” – through your own best strategies
What is your own learning style?
Smart students do this with their notes.
What is edit, revise, summarize and reflect on your notes nightly?
The first rule of this study skill is to only mark important words and phrases, NEVER a whole sentence or whole section.
What is highlighting?
The main way we learned to take notes in AVID class. (Two column notes with a summary.)
What is Cornell Notes?
This should be kept up to date in every class and looked at each day after school.
What is your assignment book/planner?
These thoughts and words you say to yourself to help yourself
What is positive self-talk?
SMART students believe doing this and sometimes feeling foolish helps you to really learn and improve.
What is making mistakes?
Asking your own questions, searching for answers, participating in discussion, making connections, and having notes that are 'alive' make you this kind of learner.
What is an active learner?
Another way to take notes, primarily used to reflect on the lesson of the day if you didn't take notes during class.
What is a Learning Log?
Knowing your schedule, what your distractions are and how you can avoid them will help you do this.
What is manage my time?
The three main learning styles. (Can be out of order in question.)
What are kinesthetic, visual, auditory?
The point of a question is to get you to do this, not just find the right answer.
What is THINK?
To do this effectively: 1. Figure out your purpose. Ask, "why?" 2. Read the questions and then the conclusion. 3. Do a gallery walk. 4. Skim for big ideas, different looking words. 5. Search for IMPORTANT details 6. Take notes and highlight (or post-it notes) 7. Read it all from front to back. 8. Answer your personal questions
How do you read a textbook?
This is how you should phrase the words while you are taking notes.
What is write the notes in your own words, that you understand?
You've organized your desk with your supplies and textbooks, yet this "enemy" - which multiplies every day - is going to keep trying to clutter up your desk and backpack.
What are your papers?