Take Control Of Homework (3)

Take Control Of Homework

 So it Doesn’t Control You

 Part 3

Take Advantage of Any Free Time

If you have a study period or a long bus ride, use the time to review notes, prepare for an upcoming class or start you r homework. Flash cards are a great learning tool. They are easy to make, easy to handle, and are a marvelous tool to help you learn and remember anything. Punch a hole in the upper left corner of each index card and connect the stack of your flash cards with a ring. Then the cards are hound and not flopping around. Flash cards hound like this act like a small book with pages. You can even have separate ringed stacks for each subject. WHATEVER YOU WANT TO REMEMBER, PUT IT ON A CARD.

Study with a friend

Get together with friends and classmates to quiz each other, compare notes and predict test questions. Consider joining a study group.

Communicate

If you have concerns about the amount or type of homework you have, you may want to talk to your family, teachers or counselor. They can help you understand how much time you need to allot for homework and how to manage you tasks.

Celebrate Your Achievements

Reward yourself for hitting milestones or doing something well.

  

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The Power Of Study Groups (4)

The Power Of Study Groups

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Part 4

Getting The Most Out of a Session
Here are some tips to help your group get the most out of each study session:

• Decide what you're going to do in advance.
• Prepare for the sessions, so you can make the most of your time together.
• Take turns teaching to reinforce your own knowledge.
• Stick to the session topic.

By supplementing your individual study with a study group, you can reinforce what you've learned, deepen your understandings of complex concepts, and maybe even make a few friends.
Remember that a friend is a person who encourages you to do your best and to achieve on a high level, one who pushes you to try a little harder and be a little better. If someone pulls you down the wrong trails of life, then those people are not friends, (they are actually your enemies), and you must avoid them at all cost. Whoever said learning can't be fun? Learning is enjoyable and exciting when you study with others.

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The Power Of Study Groups (3)

The Power of Study Groups

      

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 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 interest in doing well academically. Look for people who stay alert in class, take notes, ask questions and respond to the teacher’s question. Include someone who understands the material better than you and can explain the concepts and someone who doesn't understand as well, to whom you can explain the material.       

Where? Hold a 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 to 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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Part 2

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 organized skill, the ability to stick to a task or capacity for memorization.

Cover more around Group members may 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 another. 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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The Power Of Study Groups

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Working Together Helps Everyone

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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