This department is responsible for teaching students textbook-reading strategies.
What is the Social Studies department?
100
Mnemonics is one strategy for this skill.
What is memorization?
100
Instead of teaching the skill whenever you get a spare 1/2 hour, you are encouraged to teach the skill within the ___________ of your course material.
What is context?
100
On Mondays, all freshmen homerooms will be visited by one of these five administrators.
Who are Kathy Mahar, Lew VanWambeke, Amy Cannon, Bill Weber, and Kaycie Bowen?
100
A group of teachers who will meet monthly to discuss freshmen-related topics and provide information to their departments is called THIS.
What is the "Transition Team"?
200
These two departments will stress the importance of different memorization strategies with the students.
What are Health & Fitness and Foreign Language?
200
SQ3R is a strategy for this type of skill.
What is a reading strategy?
200
Establishing this with organization & planner usage will help students know what to expect in your class each day.
What is a routine?
200
The administration will discuss these kinds of topics with the freshmen.
What are organization skills, school involvement, academic integrity, etc.?
200
The time and day the Transition Team will meet.
What is 7:15AM on Wednesdays before department meetings?
300
The science department is responsible for teaching this study skill.
What is organization and time management?
300
Process of elimination & not worrying how quickly a neighbor finishes a test is part of this skill.
What is test-taking and reducing test anxiety?
300
Expect your students to utilize the study skills that they are taught in other __________.
What are classes?
300
The administration will also be paying attention to how often students receive _______ & ___________.
What are demerits and deficiencies?
300
These two departments are being included for the first time in the Freshmen Strategies for Success program.
What are Foreign Language & Math?
400
General test-taking strategies & tips for reducing test anxiety will be gone over by this department.
What is the English Department?
400
Planner usage, keeping a clean locker, and long-term planning are just some of the strategies associated with these skills.
What are organization and time management?
400
If you have a concern about a student, fill out one of these as soon as possible or contact their guidance counselor.
What is a CAP referral?
400
This program may eventually involve these specially- trained seniors.
What are senior mentors?
400
These people will be asked to look for the utilization of the study skills in our classrooms when they observe us.
What are department chairs?
500
While the Math department discusses study strategies that are specfic to the courses, this department will talk to students about their learning style.
What is the Religion Department?
500
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligence includes these 8 intelligences.
What are verbal/linguistic, musical, logical/mathematical, visual/spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, naturalist, intrapersonal, and interpersonal?
500
This type of student may think it knows everything, but we can't assume that they know these study skills.
What are freshmen?
500
This is the goal of the homeroom support visits.
What is to provide more social & academic support for our freshmen and give them one more adult to connect with in the building?
500
These will be given to students at the beginning, middle, and end of the year to determine if our program is successful.