Organization & Study Habits

Organization

• The ability to organize all of your materials is imperative to your success. The following pages will provide you with some good information to keep you organized.

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• The first thing you need to do is keep your locker clean. You should keep your locker free of extra clothing and other things that may clutter it. This will provide you with a good location to put your school materials.

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Organizational Tips• The second thing you

need to do is keep your book bag free of extra papers and things that make it a mess. This will allow you to easily locate your homework, or other needed materials.

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Organizational Tips• The third thing your can

do to properly organize yourself is use your daily planner to write your assignments and any other important bits of information you need to be reminded of. You should be able to look at your planner at night and know exactly what your homework is.

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Organizational Tips

• The fourth and final tip to help keep yourself organized is to maintain neat and tidy notebooks. This will provide you with a great location to write your notes and other assignments.

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Organizational Tips Quiz

1.The main reason to keep your locker clean is to impress your friends with your neatness.

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2. Your daily planner should be used to write all of your homework assignments in.

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3. Keeping your book bag clean allows you to easily find your homework.

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Study Tips

• Organization is only part of the equation when it comes to becoming more successful in school. You also need to develop better study habits. The following pages will describe positive study habits.

• Information courtesy of Study Guides and Strategies.

Mood

• The first step is to create a good mood for to study in.

• Find an appropriate time and location for you to study free of outside noise or distractions.

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Understand

• The second step is to mark any information you do not understand.

• This gives you the ability to go back and study any areas you struggled with.

• Keep the study topics small so you do not overwhelm yourself with too much material.

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Recall

• The third step in the process is to recall the information you have just studied by writing the information in your own words.

• This allows you to demonstrate your understanding of the information without just spitting back what you read.

• You have a much better chance of learning the material if you can put the information in your own words.

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Digest

• The fourth step in the process is to let the information digest.

• It is important to let the information settle, and then go back and quiz yourself.

• This step gives you the opportunity to see if you have actually learned the material after some time has passed.

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Expand

• The fifth step is to expand your knowledge base by expanding what you have learned by asking yourself probing questions.– If I could speak to the author, what questions would I ask? – How could I apply this material to what I am interested in? – How could I make this information interesting and

understandable to my friends?

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Review

• Review your what you have learned.

• Go back and check what you had problems with earlier, and quiz yourself.

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Study Tips Quiz

1. What is the first step in having good study tips?

1. Mood

2. Motivation

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2. What should you do after you have set your mood for studying?

1. Digest

2. Understand

3. Expand

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3. Expanding your knowledge means you should?

1. Sit and think about what you learned

2. Ask probing questions

3. Digest the information

4. None

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