The Power of Study Groups

Part 3

Guidelines for Getting a Group Together

Here are some guidelines for creating and running a study group: How many? Create a group of four to six people. In a larger group, it’s easy for someone to get left out and smaller groups can too easily get off track.                                                                                       Who? Pick classmates who seem to share your interests in doing well academically. Look for people who stay alert in class, take notes, ask questions and respond to the teacher’s questions. Include someone who understands the material better than you and can explain the concepts and someone who doesn’t understand it as well, to whom you can explain the material.                                    Where? Hold study group sessions in a place that is free of distractions and that has room to spread out books and notes. How long? Meet for no more than two or three hours at a time. Having a time limit helps the group focus. If you know you only have an hour, you’re more likely to stay on task.     When? Try to meet regularly, on the same day and time each week. Treating the study session as you would other activities helps you to keep to a schedule and ensures that everyone attends.

 

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The power of Study Groups

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The benefits of study groups

Group study offers other advantages in addition to gaining a deeper understanding of class material. These include the opportunity to: reinforce note-taking. If your AP biology notes are unclear, you can ask a member of your study group to help you fill the gaps. Share talents. Each person brings different strengths, such as organizational skills, the ability to stick to a task or capacity for memorization.

Come more ground. Group members may be able to solve a calculus problem together that none would have solved alone.

Benefit from a support system. Members often have common goals, such as good grades. Each person’s work affects the other members, which results in making members supportive of one and other. Socialize. It’s more fun to study with others; the give-and-take makes it more interesting. And because it’s more fun, you spend more time studying!!!!

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Student Success Statement

Goals

“In life as in football, you won’t go far, unless you know where the goalposts are.”

-Arnold Glasgow

When you are setting a goal for yourself you need to know your limits and where the goal you are trying to achieve will end.  For example in football you need to know where the goalpost is to be able to achieve the goal. Always remember to make sure you don’t spread yourself to thin and go beyond what you can unless it’s a risk you are willing to take as the responsible person you are.

The Power of Study Groups

Working Together helps Everyone

Part 1

 

You may have noticed that when you’re explaining something you’ve learned to a friend, you begin to understand it better yourself. This happens because, when you explain an idea, you need to think more deeply about it.

The same principle makes study groups useful. Studying with others in a small group is helpful because you:

·      Think out loud.

·      Share ideas.

·      Learn from one another.

 

In an effective study group, you and other students hash out lesson materials together – explaining concepts, arguing about them, figuring out why one person’s answer differs from another’s – and in the process, you most likely learn more than you would have studying by yourself.

 

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Walk the Talk

Walk the Talk means that when you take an opportunity in choosing the right things will go your was. What it takes is commitment; honesty, Respect, Courage, and Integrity to be able to do things that are right and can bring success because if you believe you can make a difference than you will. With every sunrise a new opportunity awaits you. You just need to find yourself and seek for what is good to be able to make a difference.

Student Success Statement

“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choice.”

-       Albert A. Montapert

When you do something bad you should expect consequences. Even when you think you got away with something bad you did the truth always comes out and the consequences follow meaning you will be punished for the wrong you did for example: If you steal the consequence is going to jail. So it’s better not to do wrong in the first place.

How to Take on College Studying

Part 3

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 learned from each assignment you read.

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