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6 tips to help you in school

  • Study actively
  • Ask questions
  • Know your textbook
  • Make a compendious study guide
  • Be prepared one day ahead
  • Understand how the big picture and the details relate to each other

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Dr Joel Wallace

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6 tips to help you in school

  • Study actively
    • What is the difference between active and passive studying?

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Dr Joel Wallace

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6 tips to help you in school

  • Study actively
  • Ask questions
    • Ask while you read and while you are in class
      • Does the content contain unfamiliar vocabulary?
      • Do I understand what I am reading or hearing?
      • Am I paying attention?
      • Teachers are here to answer your questions!

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Dr Joel Wallace

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6 tips to help you in school

  • Study actively
  • Ask questions
  • Know your textbook
    • Are there review questions?
    • Look at captions and images
    • Online resources for the course may exist
    • Is there a chapter summary?

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Dr Joel Wallace

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6 tips to help you in school

  • Study actively
  • Ask questions
  • Know your textbook
  • Make a compendious study guide
    • Compendious: complete and concise
    • You are investing in your future studying
    • This is a form of active studying

Dr Joel Wallace

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6 tips to help you in school

  • Study actively
  • Ask questions
  • Know your textbook
  • Make a compendious study guide
  • Be prepared one day ahead
    • Allows you to identify what you don’t know prior to taking the assessment.
    • Assessment on Tuesday?

(Be ready Monday when you enter class.)

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Dr Joel Wallace

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6 tips to help you in school

  • Study actively
  • Ask questions
  • Know your textbook
  • Make a compendious study guide
  • Be prepared one day ahead
  • Understand how the big picture and the details relate to each other
    • Recognize recurring themes and relate them to specific examples
    • Connect intricate details to main themes

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Dr Joel Wallace

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6 tips to help you in school

  • Study actively
  • Ask questions
  • Know your textbook
  • Make a compendious study guide
  • Be prepared one day ahead
  • Understand how the big picture and the details relate to each other
  • Are you WILLING to follow this advice?

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Dr Joel Wallace

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6 tips to help you in school

  • Study actively
  • Ask questions
  • Know your textbook
  • Make a compendious study guide
  • Be prepared one day ahead
  • Understand how the big picture and the details relate to each other
  • Visualize a successful student doing what you are doing. Does your visualization match your behavior?

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Dr Joel Wallace