My mom asked me the other day where I get all of my ideas and sites for the blogs. I told her that I basically just teach and search for answers to all of my questions. For example the other day a friend asked me for help with her daughter's studying ability.
I actually always start this kind of an answer with asking if the student writes a study guide. Most of the time, the answer is no. Bu as I have now come to require my students to fill in one before each summative assessment, I have found that is where most end. Given no study guide, most, would do nothing. Given a study guide the most kids do is read them over and hope for the best on the items they don't know. This is contrary to my kids who insist on us quizzing them repeatedly for days, which is exactly what the research suggests is best. said she suffered from test anxiety. She admitted that she never did more than review her notes to which I asked if she wasn't fulfilling her prophesy in that she was taking the easy way out by reading, but not studying and then blaming her low scores on the imagined anxiety. I asked her if she had every varied her approach to prepare and the answer was,
For this year and last I have made a conscious effort to discuss what is meant by studying - even modeling it repeatedly with my non AP classes. But here is a list of 22 different ideas to think and perhaps even share some of them with your students such as
I actually always start this kind of an answer with asking if the student writes a study guide. Most of the time, the answer is no. Bu as I have now come to require my students to fill in one before each summative assessment, I have found that is where most end. Given no study guide, most, would do nothing. Given a study guide the most kids do is read them over and hope for the best on the items they don't know. This is contrary to my kids who insist on us quizzing them repeatedly for days, which is exactly what the research suggests is best. said she suffered from test anxiety. She admitted that she never did more than review her notes to which I asked if she wasn't fulfilling her prophesy in that she was taking the easy way out by reading, but not studying and then blaming her low scores on the imagined anxiety. I asked her if she had every varied her approach to prepare and the answer was,
For this year and last I have made a conscious effort to discuss what is meant by studying - even modeling it repeatedly with my non AP classes. But here is a list of 22 different ideas to think and perhaps even share some of them with your students such as
- quizzing one's self (I love Quizlet)
- studying for multiple days
- studying in different parts of the house
- using different memory devices such as songs and story telling
- writing it out
- taking breaks and more
The video above echoes many of the points above, but also how to reduce anxiety in a test.
- In addition to requiring study guides and
- giving them the Quizlet links for a particular subject (you can just do a search on the site and say something like "Regents WHI China" and someone has put together a pretty good group of cards.
- I tell them about Google Hangouts so they can quiz their friends and not have to worry about getting together. They can be done on any device and allow you share your screen.
- or use FreeConferenceCall.com which allows students up to 999 other participants in a group call
- or even the old fashioned meeting someone in person!
No comments:
Post a Comment