How to Take on College Studying

How to Take on College Studying

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Do the Reading

You need to do more than just read the chapters you are assigned—you’re expected to understand them thoroughly. Here are some tips:

·     Don’t skim. Read all the material carefully.

·     Break up difficult assignments into sections you can digest—chapters, subsections or even paragraphs

·     Look up any words that you don’t understand.

·     Pause to think about whether you understand the material; ask questions in class about anything that is unclear.

·     Take notes instead of highlighting—this makes you think through and rephrase the key points.

·     Create a summary sheet of what you have learned from each assignment you read.

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How to Take on College Studying

How to Take on College Studying

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Choose Where to Study

Where you should study depends on two factors: the environment in which you are able to concentrate and the type of work you are planning to do.

·     The best places to study have good light, a comfortable temperature and enough desk space—usually your dorm room, your apartment or the library.

·     For completing problem sets or brainstorming possible test questions, you may want to study with a group or at least in a setting where fellow students are available for discussion.

·     When you are reading book chapters or working on a research paper you are probably better off in a less social environment.

Improve Your Study Habits

Here are simple steps you can take to help you get a handle on studying:

·     Have a routine for where and when you study.

·     Choose reasonable and specific goals that you can accomplish for each study session.

·     Do things that are harder or require more intense thought at your most productive time of the day.

·     Take breaks if you need them so you don’t waste your time looking at material but not absorbing it.

·     Get to know students whom you respect and can study with or contact to ask questions.

·     Keep up with the work load and seek help when you need it.

AP Study Notes

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

(By Sean Covey but modified)

Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, and then to be Understood

Because most people don’t listen very well, one of the great frustrations in life is that many don’t feel understood. This habit will ensure your teen learns the most important communication skills there is: active listening.

Why is this habit they to communication? It’s because the deepest need of the human heart is to be understood. Everyone wants to be respected and valued for who they are—a unique, one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-cloned individual. People won’t expose their soft middles unless they feel genuine love and understanding. Once they feel it, however, they will tell you more than you may want to hear. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Listen with your eyes, heart and ears. 7 percent of communication is contained in the words we use. The rest comes from body language (53 percent) and how we say words, or the tone and feeling reflected in our voice (40 percent).

Most people are eager to talk and had rather talk than listen. We have one mouth and two ears. This means we should listen twice as much as we talk. We actually learn more while listening rather than how much we talk. Learn to listen and listen to learn.

Listen, really listen, for understanding.

Seek first to understand then to be understood—LISTEN.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

(By Sean Covey but modified)

Habit 4: Think Win-Win

Teens can learn to foster the belief that it is possible to create an atmosphere of Win-Win in every relationship. This habit encourages the idea that in any given discussion or situation both parties can arrive at a mutually beneficial solution. Your teen will learn to celebrate the accomplishments of others instead of being threatened by them. Win-Win is a belief that everyone can win. It’s both nice and tough all at once. I won’t step on you, but I won’t be your doormat either. You care about other people and you want them to succeed. But you also care about yourself, and you want to succeed as well. Win-Win is abundant. It is the belief that there’s plenty of success to go around. It’s not either you or me. It’s both of us. It’s not a matter of who gets the biggest piece of the pie. There’s more than enough food for everyone. It’s an all-you-can-eat buffet.

Win-win always creates more. Perhaps the most surprising benefit of thinking Win-Win is the good feelings it brings on. The true test of whether or not you are thinking Win-Win or one of the alternatives is how you feel. Win-Lose and Lose-Win thinking will cloud your judgment and fill you with negative feelings.

Win-Win will fill your heart with happy and serene thoughts. It will give you confidence. Even fill you with light. Think Win-Win or no deal.

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

7 Habits of Highly Successful Teens

By Sean Covey

 

For teens, life is not a playground, it’s a jungle. And, being the parent of a teenager isn’t any walk in the park, either. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey attempts to provide “a compass to help teens and their parents navigate the problems they encounter daily.”

How will they deal with peer pressure? Motivation? Success or lack thereof? The life of a teenager is full of tough issues and life-changing decisions. As a parents, you are responsible to help them learn the principles and ethics that will help them to reach their goals and live a successful life.

While it’s all well and good to tell kids how to live their lives, “teens watch what you do more than they listen to what you say,” Covey says. So practice what you preach. Your example can be very influential.

Covey himself has done well by following a parent’s example. His dad, Stephen Covey, wrote the book The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, which sold over 15 million copies. Sean’s chips off the old block, and no slacker. His own book has rung in a more than respectable 2 million copies sold. Here are his seven habits, and some ideas for helping your teen understand and apply them:

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Student Reflection

Student Reflection

I think that teenagers that use alcohol or drugs went down the wrong path and they are going to stay there for their rest of their lives until they are willing to make a change. Their lives will be drastically changed and they will be crushed on the inside. Many teens who are doing drugs or alcohol should stop right away. They don’t know what they are doing to themselves and others and before they realize it, when they get older, they will become a bad influence and make the world a not better, but worsed place. To the people who have never used drugs or alcohol, stay there. NEVER USE THEM! Don’t even try to use them once, because once you use it and become addicted, then you won’t be able to stop. Drugs can lead you to death or to addiction or can put you in a hospital. The same goes to alcohol. So NEVER USE THEM and

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