Chinese Proverb: "Tell me; I'll forget. Show me; I'll remember. Involve me; I'll understand"
Do you want your students to come to class prepared and know how to learn? Then teach them how. It is easy to integrate academic "hard skills" such as note-taking, test-taking, critical reading and critical writing into the curriculum by making them part of what you teach and assign.
Rick Dollieslager (left), TNCC Gator (right)
Cubs Cap (top)
Power Point: Integrating Success Skills
Lifelong “Soft Skills” = Success in Life and College
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Achieving Common Goals: Finish the Behaviors and Expectations sections of your syllabus together with the class. Give students ownership of their own outcomes.
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Developing Responsibility: NQA coupons: One time, one chance, one late assignment (and only one)--No Questions Asked
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Self-Management: Classroom Professionalism Rubric
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Time Management: Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle: Using TimeEffectively, Not Just Efficiently /Covey's Grid /Time Management Matrix, video instructions for Covey's 4-quadrants grid /"The Late Paper" Case Study
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Positive Interdependency: Creating Cooperative Base Groups
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Emotional Intelligence: Use readings, videos, discussion and writing assigments to develop awarenes of emotional intelligence.
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Exploring career goals
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Assessing learning styles
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Self-Motivation: Nearly 300 lesson plans and strategies for teaching the lifelong "soft skills" from the On Course Website
Academic “Hard Skills” = Success in College
- Using Cornell format lecture notes for test preparation
- Video about Cornell note taking
- What to write when taking notes from lectures; a video lesson on lecture notes
- Note taking while reading: The SQ3R Method
- Successful reading strategies
- Read faster, comprehend more: teach chunking
- Writing to Learn: Math Journals, Grammar Journals
- Give incentives for good note taking by grading notes (it's easy to do) and open-notes testing
- Assessing innate intelligences
- On-line research methods
- Resources management
- On-campus resources
- Brain development during learning
- Collaborative and Cooperative Learning Projects
- Students as teachers
- Test-taking techniques: JMU; StudyGs
