Academic Teacher Resources

1. KNOW YOURSELF Academic Teacher Resources Student Wall Planner and Study Guide

2. Study Technique - Learning Study Effectiveness Learning Style and Learning Behaviour Drive/Motivation

3. Know Your Learning Style • (1)Not everybody learns from the same way. • Most people actually have a preferred learning style.

4. Your Learning Style • Find out which of the three learning styles suits you best: • Auditory – listening • Visual – seeing and writing • Kinesthetic – motor skills - action • Your best learning style will help you with increased data retention and Study.

5. Your Learning Style • (2)Your learning style has implications for how you study and • Also how you manage your learning at school and at home

6. Auditory - (3)Learn by Listening • Learn from verbal instructions • Talk while you write • Remember names but forget faces • Distracted by noise • Remember by listening, especially with music • Games and pictures are annoying and distracting

7. (4)Auditory Learner • Learn from tapes/digital recorder • Listen and take notes • Review notes frequently • Sit in the classroom where you can hear well • Read, summarise and recite it aloud

8. Visual(5) – Learn by Seeing + Writing or Drawing • See words or pictures • Remember faces but not names • Vivid imagination • Think in pictures • Facial expression can tell their moods • Use colour • Tend to draw diagrams and flow charts to summarise

9. (6)Visual Learner • Use charts, maps • Notes and flash cards • Practice visualising or picture words/concepts in your head • Write out everything for frequent and quick visual review • Place notes around you

10. Kinesthetic – (7)Learn by Using Motor Skills – ‘Action’ • Learn by doing, being mostly active and moving • Not an avid reader • Remember what was done, not what was seen or discussed • Doesn’t ‘hear’ things well • Touch is important • Impulsive • Loves games

11. (8)Kinesthetic – Learner • Learn taking and keeping notes • Write things out several times is important • Explore things physically – mould, manipulate, hit or pound

12. Know YourLearning Behaviours • Effective learners (9)ACTIVELY seek to advance their learning, • Ineffective learners (10)PASSIVELYwait for everything to come to them.

13. Checklist • Use the checklist to give you a quick assessment on how you are using the various (11)learning behaviours as your disposal at the moment.

14. Learning Behaviour • (12)Changing your habits in and out of class is not a easy task. • If there are learning behaviours you want to work on and change – • you have to write them down as your goal and • Frequently ask yourself if you are making progress or not

15. Managing Test Anxiety • It is (13)natural to feel anxiety about taking tests. • A little test anxiety helps motivate you to prepare for your best. • It is what you do with the anxiety that is important.

16. Managing Test Anxiety • (14)Any time you face a challenge in life you are likely to be faced with similar anxious feelings. • If you are too anxious about taking a test it can affect your preparation and your ability to answer questions properly.

17. What Can I Do About Test Anxiety? • (15)Good Study Techniques • (16)Study Routine is Important • (17)Rest and Well Fed • (18)Stay Away from Junk Foods • (19)Don’t talk to people about the material as you wait to go into the test • (20)Deep Breaths • (21)Focus on Positive Self-Statements

18. DETER Strategy • Follow a plan for taking the test such as: • (21)D = Directions • Read the test directions very carefully • (22)E = Examine • Examine the entire test • (23)T = Time • Appropriate amount of time per marks given • (24)E = Easiest • Easiest questions first • (25)R = Review • Allow time for reviewing the test at the end