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Kiewra, Kenneth A. – Parenting for High Potential, 2019
The one thing that most students have in common is that they are not taught note taking and study strategies in school or home. However, it is essential that parents and educators spend time teaching gifted children how to organize their lessons, how to analyze the material, and how to study. Research demonstrates that learning is enhanced when…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Teacher Role, Study Habits, Notetaking
Hanlon, Bill – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018
In this book Bill Hanlon provides examples and recommends highly effective and practical instructional and assessment strategies that classroom teachers can immediately implement and that school administrators can readily observe. These high yield strategies build on accepted practices and directly address the needs of struggling students or…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
Entress, Cole; Wagner, Aimee – Science Teacher, 2014
Scientists, science teachers, and serious students recognize that success in science classes requires consistent practice--including study at home. Whether balancing chemical equations, calculating angular momentum, or memorizing the steps of cell division, students must review material repeatedly to fully understand new ideas--and must practice…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Science Interests, Learning Strategies
Underwood, Jan – ORTESOL Journal, 2013
A 20-year veteran teacher of college Spanish, the author decided to take an intensive First-Year German course during one summer. The author found the German class was not only a great opportunity to acquire another language, but a rich source of insight about the language teaching and the learning process itself. Not only did she take German…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Processes, German, Notetaking
Brunner, Judy – Principal Leadership, 2013
Some educators see the Common Core State Standards as reason for stress, most recognize the positive possibilities associated with them and are willing to make the professional commitment to implementing them so that academic rigor for all students will increase. But business leaders, parents, and the authors of the Common Core are not the only…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Educational Opportunities, Advanced Courses
Connor, David J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2012
Making the transition from high school to college poses challenges for most students. Moving from a secure, regulated world of secondary education into an unfamiliar environment requiring greater independence can be a destabilizing experience. For students with learning disabilities (LD) and/or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), managing this…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Transitional Programs, College Bound Students

Stencel, John E. – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2001
Outlines two notetaking techniques that assist students' learning, focusing, and scenario sequencing. Students apply these techniques in interactive notebooks that contain an organized and complete set of notes covering the course material prepared by the instructor. These methods focus the students' attention on the lecture material and involve…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Higher Education, Notetaking, Science Education
Rozalski, Michael E. – Beyond Behavior, 2008
Generally, teachers are good students. Most know how to successfully address a variety of academic tasks demands. Many know how to compensate for any personal weaknesses they have with specific skills. Sometimes teachers are such good students that they forgot what it was like to struggle to learn something. Unfortunately, students with emotional…
Descriptors: Test Wiseness, Memory, Study Skills, Learning Strategies
Collison, Michele N-K – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1992
Many college students are paying others to attend lecture classes and take notes, a practice that angers many professors and caused one university to sue a note-taking company over copyrights. Although students and some faculty say the notes are helpful in large, impersonal classes, others say they encourage poor attendance. (MSE)
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, College Students, Copyrights, Court Litigation
van der Walt, Christa – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2006
To improve throughput rates in higher education it is important to investigate ways in which instruction can be made more effective when students have to use language(s) that are not their home or primary language. At the University of Stellenbosch, as is the case elsewhere in South Africa, a language policy and implementation plan was formulated…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Student Attitudes, Bilingual Education, Foreign Countries
Louisiana State Dept. of Education, Baton Rouge. – 1987
This study skills curriculum addresses the problem of a lack of study skills demonstrated by students in grades 7-10. It focuses on 11 essential knowledge acquisition skills: (1) motivation and ice-breakers; (2) outlining and mapping; (3) time management; (4) PQ5R (Preview, Question, Read, Record, Recite, Review, and Reflect); (5) notetaking; (6)…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Course Content, Course Objectives, Critical Thinking

Cohn, Elchanan; And Others – Journal of Economic Education, 1995
Investigates the impact and relationship of notetaking techniques, notetaking functions, and measures of working memory on learning in an introductory college economics course. Compares conventional (taking notes in the customary fashion) with the outline method (recording notes in spaces on an instructor-provided outline). Includes suggestions…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Encoding (Psychology), Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Materials
Smith, Gayle; Smith, Don – 1989
This practitioner's guide is designed to provide an overview of a schoolwide study skills program that accommodates individual student learning styles of at-risk students who may be potential dropouts at the secondary education level. The schoolwide skills model described here is appropriate for all grade levels especially secondary levels as it…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Content Area Reading, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention