Fully Integrate Study Skills Into Your Classroom Using P.O.W.E.R.

1. Fully Integrate Study Skills Into Your Classroom Using P.O.W.E.R. Sherri Messersmith Larry Perez Bob Feldman

2. Are Today’s Students Different?

3. College students often lack academic preparation and adequate study skills • Majority of students are not ready for college-level material after high school • 40% of all students who enter college must take developmental courses • Over the last decade, the amount of time needed by students to complete developmental courses has been increasing

4. Misconceptions about the necessity of working hard • Instructors believe that full-time students should prepare for class 25 hours per week • Only 11% spend that much time • And 65% percent study 10 hours or fewer per week • Time spent studying has steadily declined for the last four decades • Although success is important to them, expectations about success are often unrealistic • The equation “effort  success” is often unclear to them

5. What to do?: Teach study skills • Provide direct instruction in study skills • Time management • Effective reading strategies • Listening and taking notes in class • Test-taking strategies • Incorporate study skills across the curriculum

6. A proven approach to teaching study skills: P.O.W.E.R. Learning

7. Why P.O.W.E.R. Learning is effective • Research based • Provides a concrete critical thinking and learning framework • Offers a framework that is easy to grasp, logical, easy to apply, and effective • Teaches a set of simple organizing principles that can be used in and out of the classroom

8. What does P.O.W.E.R. mean in terms of learning and teaching math?

9. What does P.O.W.E.R. mean in terms of learning and teaching math? P (Prepare): Goal setting; being prepared with basic skills and study skills.

10. What does P.O.W.E.R. mean in terms of learning and teaching math? O (Organize): Organize both physically and mentally to meet goals.

11. What does P.O.W.E.R. mean in terms of learning and teaching math? W (Work): Doing work – reading the book, taking notes, active participation in class, etc.

12. What does P.O.W.E.R. mean in terms of learning and teaching math? E (Evaluate): Doing (and checking) homework at the section level. Taking the exam at the chapter level.

13. What does P.O.W.E.R. mean in terms of learning and teaching math? R (Rethink): Reflection. Students should ask themselves “How well did I learn the material?”

14. In the Classroom Basic Skills Worksheets Study Strategies emPOWERme Exercises

15. What I had been doing all along is P.O.W.E.R. P.O.W.E.R. provides a scientifically - based framework for students and instructors.

16. Developmental students don’t want to fail; they just don’t know how to succeed!

17. The Affective Dimension of Learning What are the students’ perceptions of learning math? KSBR Radio Show www.algebra2go.comVideo Presentation http://algebra2go.blogspot.com

18. How do we as instructors use P.O.W.E.R. to refine our teaching styles? Refined Worksheet Handout Refined Online Tools

19. Thank you for attending our presentation. sherri.messersmith@gmail.com Lperez@saddleback.edu feldman@psych.umass.edu