5th study habit

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TOPIC 2 : STUDY HABITS:

What are study habits?

• Study habits are habits that help us understand and remember what we learnt.

Importance of study habits

• Helps us gain knowledge and use it effectively

• Enhances our ability to evaluate our strengths and weaknesses in studies

• Helps us get better marks

• Helps us to Learn new techniques and methods of enhancing memory and

concentration

• Helps utilize our time very well

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Helps us to develop motivation towards study

Inculcating effective study skills:

• being aware of the methods we use to learn anything

• recognize the advantages and disadvantages of that method

• Making a time table and sticking to it.

• Keeping time for relaxation and personal hobbies.

• Using various techniques to improve level of concentration.

• Increase our level of motivation by appreciating our self

• Understanding the concepts and not rote learning.

• Using SQ3R Technique (Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review).

Day 1:

in.

What are the things we have learned in the last session?

What is friendship?

Friendship is a relation where we can help, support, trust, play, enjoy and talk toeach other. It is a relation where we respect others and not harm them in any way.

Friendship consists of: Exploring different ways to make friends

Understanding our friends

Trusting our friends

Give and take honest feedback

Co-operate with friends

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Why do we need friends? To talk and share our ideas and feelings

To play and enjoy with

To give and take help in difficult times

To motivate and appreciate each other

To overcome our mistakes and obstacles

To learn new things

To acquire knowledge

To explore various methods to study well.

Ways of developing and maintaining friendship.

Understanding that friendship depends on the qualities we have.

Understand what our friend is talking and feeling

Trusting our friend

Share our ideas, thoughts and feelings with our friends

Respect our friends even if we have difference of opinion

Give and receive honest feedback

Playing games and having fun with friends

Never compare ourselves with our friends

Feeling happy for our friends and appreciate them

Understanding when our friends can not share time with us

We became aware what is friendship and how to maintain it,

lets see some more important things

Activity 1: what is habit?

Time: 10 min

Material: Paper, pen etc.

Objective:

• To introduce them what is habitProcedure : Ask the students to write their full name with their left hand first, then with their right

hand

Debrief :Ask students:

1. How was it?





2. Which was easy left or right ?

3. Why was it easier with right hand and difficult with other hand (vice versa)?

Obviously if they are right handed they will say right hand and if they are left handed they willsay left hand.

We are more comfortable with a particular hand because we are habituated to write with that hand.

So what is habit?Habit is an acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically.

2. An act done repeatedly, sometimes unconsciously (such as a eye blinking

and throat clearing ), sometimes for leisure (such as a hobby)3. Habits are automatic routines of behavior that are repeated regularly,

without thinking.

• In the same way if we develop a habit of studying it will be easier to follow it and wecan easily follow it.

Activity2 : Introduction of Study habits.

Time: 20 min.

Material: none.

Elicit response on the following?

• What is a habit?

• What are a good habit and a bad habit?

• Can habit be learned and unlearned?

• Let the children respond and then sum up with the following:

What's a Habit?

A habit is a pattern of behavior that's repeated, and the person usually isn't even aware of his habit.

Habit is ‘a settled regular tendency or practice, especially one that is hard to give up.

• Elicit example from them : e.g Sleeping on time, Nail biting etc.

Ask them what is good habit?

Good habits are those which helps the individual in achieving your goal and also help to build

good relations with others. A good habit helps us to grow in a healthy way.

Elicit response from them: what are good habits:

• Reading

•

Studying on time (stress on this point)• Sleeping on time

• Eating on time

• Playing / exercising on time and in limits

• Being polite

• Having good manners (classroom , home, outside)

• All these will help us grow as responsible adults and good human beings.


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• Add their examples also in the list

Ask them What is bad habit?

While bad habits do just the opposite which hamper your progress and also strain

relationship with others.

What are bad habit?(elicit examples from them )

• Nail biting

• Hair twirling

• Nose picking

• Not studying,

• Not Eating or playing on time

• Misbehaving etc

Would you all like to listen to a story

Please listen carefully I will ask you questions later

Activity3 : Story about Rahul

Time: 20 min.

Material required: None.

Objective :

• importance of studying

• Importance of study habit

Who Did Rahul's Homework?

Once upon a time in a small village lived Rahul who was very

mischievous and he was never serious about his study. Rahul

never did homework. He used to get 40% to 50% in exams

"Too boring," he said. He played cricket and basketball and

hockey instead. His teachers told him, "Rahul! Do your

homework or you won’t learn a thing." And it's true;

sometimes he did feel like a ding-a-ling. But what could he

do? He hated homework. Then on Christmas Day his cat was

playing with a little doll and he grabbed it away. To his

surprise it wasn't a doll at all, but a man of the tiniest size. Hehad a little wool shirt with old fashioned britches and a high tall hat

much like a witch's. He yelled, "Save me! Don't give me

back to that cat. I'll grant you a wish, I promise you that."





Rahul couldn't believe how lucky he was! Here was the answer to all of his

problems. So he said, "Only if you do all my homework 'til the end of thesemester, that's 35 days. If you do a good enough job, I could even get A's."

The little man's face wrinkled like a dishcloth thrown in the hamper. He

kicked his legs and doubled his fists and he grimaced and scowled and pursed

his lips, "Oh, am I cursed! But I'll do it."

And true to his word, that little man began to do Rahul's homework. Except

there was one glitch. The little man didn't always know what to do and he

needed help. "Help me! Help me!" he'd say. And Rahul would have to help --

in whatever way.

"I don't know this word," the little man squeeked while reading Rahul's homework.

"Get me a dictionary. No, what's even better. Look up the word and sound it out by each

letter."

When it came to math, Rahul was out of luck. "What are times tables?" the little man

shrieked. "We elves never need that. And addition and subtraction and division and

fractions? Here, sit down beside me, you simply must guide me."

Elves know nothing of human history, to them it's a mystery. So the little little man, already

a shouter, just got louder "Go to the library, I need books. More and more books. And you

can help me read them too."

As a matter of fact every day in every way that little little man was a nag! Rahul was

working harder than ever and was it a drag! He was staying up nights, had never felt so

weary, was going to school with his eyes puffed and bleary. Finally the last day of school

arrived and the little man was free to go. As for homework, there was no more, so he quietly

and slyly slipped out the back door.

Rahul got his A's; his classmates were amazed; his teachers smiled and were full of praise.

And his parents? They wondered what had happened to Rahul. He himself wondered , he

realized that study is not really bad, we can make easier by daily practice, we can learn new

things and new skills if we make it habituated . He was now the model kid. Cleaned his room,did his chores, was cheerful, never rude, like he had developed a whole new attitude.

You see, in the end Rahul still thought he'd made that tiny man do all his homework. It

wasn't the little man; Rahul had done it himself!

Debrief:





1. How was the story?

2. What was the name of boy in this story?(Rahul)3. On which day cat was playing with small doll?(on Christmas day)

4. What did you learn from the story ? elicit response from them5. Do you think that studying is very important? why?

6. What happened in the story?

Rahul was very naughty and poor in studies, but he made a habit of study.

What is study habit? elicit response from them

Study habits are habits that help us understand and remember what we learnt.

• Study habit is recognizing that you are responsible for your successes and also your

failures. Taking on this responsibility entails the understanding that your priorities,decisions, habits, and resources all determine the success you have, or do not have, with

studying.• Its important for everyone to do their work/study effectively.

• One should make use of resources available to study and should also keep his/her

environment clean and neat.

• One should not procrastinate. once we delayed it never complete. Give examples of procrastination of their project or assignment.

Today’s take away:

1. What is habit

2. Good and bad habit

3. Advantage of study habit

Wrap up with the following

• Do you feel it is important to learn to learn study habits and study skills

• Yes or no

• So lets take a pledge

Pledge:

“I take this pledge today that

I promise that I will develop good habits,

I will learn new techniques of study,

I will revise what is done in class.

I will make a time table & stick to it.”





Day 2:

Recap ; 10 minActivity 3:

Time: 25 min

Material: chart paper, sketch pens, etc.

Objective:

Procedure:

Make a list of your good and bad habit.

• Make chart on :

What is habit

List out good and bad habit.Advantage of study habit

Activity 4 : worksheet

Time : 20 min.

Material :worksheet.

Objective: Analyze your study habit and rethink it accordingly.

Procedure :

Give them worksheet to check their study habit and they have to select options YES or

NO.

My personal study habits:

How am I doing?

Instructions: Tick mark YES or NO Option for the statements that describe you.

No. Statements Options

1 I have a quiet place at home to study. Yes NO

2 I am organized with Books and Notes. Yes NO

3 I listen carefully in class during instruction. Yes NO

4 I complete all homework when it is due. Yes NO

5 I participate and complete all class work on time. Yes NO





6 I use a planner or notebook to record the due dates of all

projects and assignments.

Yes NO

7 I come prepared for class. Yes NO

8 I am well prepared for my exam Yes NO

9 I ask questions when I do not understand what is

expected.Yes NO

10 I pay attention to my grades and progress and set goalsfor future improvement.

Yes NO

List all the subjects you are good at

1.______________________________________

2.______________________________________

3.______________________________________

If you had to teach one subject, what subject would you teach?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

If you had to omit one subject, what subject would you will omit ?

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________





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Note: for trainer

If your yes answers are more, then you have good study habit and if your No answers are more

then you need to rethink about your study habit. Scoring is as follows :

Scoring key:

Above 5 :- good5 :- average

Below 5:- bad(you need to enhance and rethink about your study habit)

Debrief :1. Ask them :

2. How easy or difficult was the exercise?

3. Do they know their score?

Do you think so this habit is going to help you ?

How study habit will help you ? elicit response from them

Helps us gain knowledge and use it effectively

Enhances our ability to evaluate our strengths and weaknesses in studies

Helps us get better marks

Helps us to Learn new techniques and methods of enhancing memory and concentration

Helps utilize our time very well

Helps us to develop motivation towards study

Take Away:

1. Importance of studying

2. Importance of study habits





Day 3:Recap: 10 min

So in last session what are the things we have learned?

On the first day we have seen what are habits and why is it important to form habits:

Reasons:

elicit from them

• Helps us gain knowledge and use it effectively

• Enhances our ability to evaluate our strengths and weaknesses in studies

• Helps us get better marks

• Helps us to Learn new techniques and methods of enhancing memory and concentration

• Helps utilize our time very well• Helps us to develop motivation towards study

After that we saw how effective study habits will help us to become better at studies (connect to

homework)

Only having good study habits is not enough but we also need to learn some study

techniques to study fast and effectively.

So today we are going to learn various study techniques which will help us remember our

study material better.

Now let’s look at some things we need to remember when studying… Let’s do some activities ….

Activity:SQ3R

Time: 20min

Material :

Objective:

• Helps us to Learn new techniques and methods of enhancing memory and concentration

Procedure :

Discuss these techniques with students

SQ3R

Increasing Your Retention of Written Information

SQ3R is a useful technique for fully absorbing written information. It helps you to create a

good mental framework of a subject, into which you can fit facts correctly. It helps you to set studygoals. It also helps you to use the review techniques that will help to fix information in your mind.

By using SQ3R to actively read a document, you can get the maximum benefit from your reading

time.


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How to Use the Tool:

The acronym SQ3R stands for the five chronological techniques you should use to read a book:We have selected 3 paragraph from subject History . Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review is

what SQ3R stands for. It is an awesome activity to get students involved with stories' vocabularyand concepts to increase comprehension. It is especially effective with expository text, because it

provides a step-by-step method that ensure multiple exposures to the material being learned. Each

step is explained in the following list:

Survey –

• To survey a chapter in a textbook, students read and think about the title, headings and

subheadings, captions under pictures, vocabulary in bold print, side entries on pages (if there are any), and the summary.

• For e.g take lesson 1 and show them.

• Get an idea of what the chapter is about by reviewing the highlights:• Read the title, headings, and subheadings.

• Take note of words that are bold.

• Look at charts, graphs, pictures, maps, and other visual material.

• Read captions.

• Read the very beginning and end of the chapter.

Question –

• As you survey the text, ask a question for each section. Ask what, why, how, when, who

and where questions as they relate to the content. Here's how you can create questions:

• Turn the title, headings, or subheadings into questions.

• Rewrite the questions at the end of the chapter or after each subheading in your own

words.

• Write down your questions.

• Questions help you to pay attention, understand the text better, and recall the information

more easily later on.

Read –

• The third step is for students to read actively, looking for answers to their questions.

• They should also attend to boldface type, charts, graphs, and any other comprehension aid provided.

• Read one section of a chapter at a time, actively looking for an answer to your question for that section.

• Pay attention to bold text that authors use to make important points.





• Be sure to review everything in the section, including tables, graphs, and illustrations, as

these features can communicate an idea more powerfully than written text.• Read as loud as possible at home.

Recite –

• Once the material has been read and questions answered fully, the students should testthemselves on the material.

• Anything difficult to remember should be rehearsed aloud or recited.

• This multisensory experience helps the difficult material to move into short-term, and with practice, long-term, memory.

• At the end of each section, look up from the text and in your own words recite an answer to

your question for that section.

• Then write down your answer. Be sure to provide examples that support it.

• Now repeat the Question, Read, and Recite steps for each section of the chapter or assignedreading. First ask a question for the next section.

• Then read to find the answer. Finally, recite the answer in your own words and jot it down.

• The written questions and answers will help you study in the future.

Review –

The final step is to review the information learned periodically.

This can be done orally with a peer, through rewriting notes from memory and

comparing to the students' master set of notes, or with mock quizzes developed by a

peer or the teacher.

After completing each chapter or reading assignment, review your notes.

Identify the main points of the reading by looking for the most important idea in

each section. Recite, or write, a brief summary of the chapter or assignment.

Review your study notes every week to help you remember the information. When

it's time to study for your tests, you'll find you've created an invaluable guide.

Key Points:

SQ3R is a useful technique for extracting the maximum amount of benefit from your reading time.

It helps you to organize the structure of a subject in your mind. It also helps you to set study goalsand to separate important information from irrelevant data.

SQ3R is a five-stage active reading technique.

Tell me stages of SQ3R:





1. Survey

2. Question3. Read

4. Recall5. Review

If you use SQ3R, you will significantly improve the quality of your study time.

Steps for Memory Improvement

1. Be in a relaxed mood

2. Write down the things that you are supposed to remember in a piece of paper.3. Read it aloud (if possible) once or twice and recite it two to three times.

4. go to sleep without worrying or thinking about anything.5. You will surely retain the item longer and find it easier to recall it when in need.6. Increase our level of motivation by appreciating our self

ACTIVITY 6: MAKE A STORY

Time – 15min

Material – Worksheets (not in the book print them separately or just write on the board)Aim :

Divide the children into 5 – 6 groups. Give the groups worksheets with the story outline.

Make chits with different styles like Humor, mystery, Adventure, friendship, fairy tale and Storywith a moral. Story should not be very long.

All the clues have to be used some where or the other,.Lets see which group makes the most interesting story out of these clues.

Priya and Karan…… old house….. on the hill….. summer….. in the car…. Beach…..boats…..

caves…. Fire….. tired….. dancing….. next day….. mirror…. Red car…… shouting….. back

home….. sleep.

Debrief :

How do you feel this activity?

Was it easy or difficult?How this activity will help you ?elicit response from them

• To remember the content easily.

•This helps to understand the connection in the matter which enhance the reasoning abilityof an individual. e.g history, science etc.

• Helps us to Learn new techniques and methods of enhancing memory and concentration.

• Helps utilize our time very well.

• Helps us to develop motivation towards study.

• Helps us gain knowledge and use it effectively.





• Helps us get better marks.

Activity 8 : Importance of taking breaks while studying.

Time: 15min.

Procedure: stretch activity

Process:

• The trainer asks students to bend down and stay in the bending position for long

time without moving even a bit.

• Ask them how does it feel to remain in a position for too long time? (Expected Answers

will be tired, painful, boring etc.).

• Repeat this activity with at least two/three positions. (Look up as much up as you can andstay steady like that, keep you hands up in the sky and stay steady.)

Debrief: • How was it?

• How do you feel now?

• When you begin with any activity, you are full of energy to work and even enjoy doing that

work.

• However, if you continue an activity for a long time you feel tired and exhausted, you feel

like changing your position and taking break.

• Similarly when you study for long time without break, your brain gets tired and you can’t pay attention to your studies.

• The speed also slows down. Hence, it is very important to give some rest to your brain

when you study.• It makes learning easier and more effective.

• Research says that, you can have qualitative study only for 40 minutes; beyond which you

have quantitative studies.

• Therefore you need to take 10 minutes break. During this 10 minutes break, listen to

music , go out for a stroll, talk with parents etc besides watching T.V. or computer games

which you can do later but not during the study breaks.

Homework :

• Worksheet on SQ3R

Worksheet:





Take away:• being aware of the methods we use to learn anything




• Using Q3R Technique (Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review).


Day 4 :

Recap : 10 min

Activity: discussion.Time: 20 min.

Material: none.

Objective:

• To introduce them smart study habits they can develop at home

Procedure:

Discuss with them tips on how to develop study habits

Here are eight smart study habits you can develop at home:

1. Listen carefully when assignments are given at school. You should be aware of what each

assignment requires and what are the expectations of teachers. Careful listening is an often-neglected study skill.

2. Study at a suitable time. You need to set aside regular time within your most useful hours.Make a time table for each work.


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3. Choose a study area free from distractions. Studying smart requires concentration so

encourage yourself to eliminate distractions such as telephones, television and loud music.

4. Review the day’s work. This enables you to recall what was done and plan ahead.

5. Allot time for each task. Set aside short periods for study that require you to concentrate better

and reduce the chance of boredom.

6. Complete one assignment or task at a time. This will help you to complete easier tasks firstthat will allow time for the harder ones. This also helps prevent the feeling of being overwhelmed

with work.

7. Take regular short breaks to renew energy. The habit of taking a break helps productivity, but a break should last no more than five minutes.

8. Review completed work periodically. Check over the work you have done to check for errorsand omissions.

9. Review each subject periodically so that you stay on top of concepts taught. Allocate a

subject a day to review for five or ten minutes each day.

10. Ask for help if needed. Successful students have a habit of using the help and assistance thatteachers and other adults offer.

Debrief:

• This help to be aware of the methods we use to learn anything


• Making a time table and sticking to it.


• Using various techniques to improve level of concentration.



• Using Q3R Technique (Survey, Question, Read, Recite and Review).

Activity 9:Kya aap pachavi class se tej ho?

Time:25 min

Material : board of different colored chart paper.

Procedure:





Ask questions from their book. And they have to raise their board per house.

Each correct answer will get 1 mark. And that student will be winner of the game.

Pledge:

“I take this pledge today that

I promise that I will develop good habits,

I will learn new techniques of study,

I will revise what is done in class.

I will make a time table & stick to it.”


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