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 organizational skills, the ability to stick to a task or capacity for memorization.

Cover more ground. Group members may be 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.

Choose The Right!!!

Choosing A Career

Rule #1: Choose A Career That Is Something You Really Like To Do.

Rule #2: Do Your Research And Choose Carefully And Thoughfully.

Rule #3: Make It Meaningful To You.

 

The more you know, the greater your marketability.

 

Factors To Consider

 

Do:

• Explore a number of careers and majors
• Get involved
• Get advice from people in your target occupation
• Follow your passion
• Dare to try something new

Don't:

• Focus on a major just to get a career put of it
• Select a major just because it is "cool" or seems to promise prestige
• Let someone else push you into a job
• Assume that you have it all figured out

Factors Affecting Career Choices

• Interest
• Skills
• Aptitudes
• People Skills
• Experience
• Family Traditions
• Personality
• Life Goals and Work Values

Where to go for Help

• Career Center
• Faculty
• Upper-class Students
• Student Organizations
• Placement Services
• College Office
• Counselor

Possible Future Careers

1. Psychologist
2. Pharmacologist

Sites

Psycologist:
• http://www.apa.org/
• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Life-Physical-and-Social-Science/Psychologists.htm
• Wikipedia for Psychology
• http://www.psychologytoday.com/

Pharmacology:

• http://www.clinicalpharmacology.com/
• http://www.bls.gov/ooh/life-physical-and-social-science/medical-scientists.htm
• UC Requirements for Pharmacology
• Wikipedia for Pharmacology
• http://www.flahec.org/hlthcareers/PHARMCOL.HTM

 

 

 

Student Success Statement

“In life as in football, you won’t go far, unless you know where the goalposts are”

Arnold Glasgow

Reflection:

     In this quote the speaker is talking about metaphorical goalposts. They symbolize your goals in life. He is saying that if you don’t know where your life is heading then you will never get there and end up someplace that is not pleasant. I agree with this statement because since you are in school you should know what kind of adult life you want. It should be there that you prepare yourself for what lies ahead because education can get you far in life. If you don’t have a good education you will most likely be forced to work in manual labor to get some money. Those with a good education may stay up late but they always have change in their environment so it is not always tedious. You should know where you want your life to be headed in because when you don’t care you will end up somewhere you might regret.

        The Power of Study Groups

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Part 1

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.

Choose The Right!!!

        The Power of Study Groups

http://www.collegeboard.com/student/plan/high-school/50-432.html

Part 1

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.

Choose The Right!!!

Walk the Talk

The video put me in a serene mood. The background music was soft and complex so it was good to hear but didn't take too much attention from the rest of the video. The pictures were good and inspirational. The quotes made you think about the way you think your life and what future choices we should make. It made me know that I need to back up my words with actions and that it isn't enough to promise to do better but to actually try. I it was trying to get us to reflect on our habits and our daily actions. It made us want to be better people on the inside.

Student Success Statement

“Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequence of his choices.”

-Albert A. Montapert

Reflection:

      I agree with this quote because even if you don’t face any legal sort of punishment you guilt will always follow you until you do the right thing. Nobody has been able to live freely after doing something bad. They have trouble sleeping at night or kill themselves because they are afraid to face their persecutors. Sometimes these people do not face a living consequence like Adolf Hitler. After the end of World War II he was the most wanted man in the world. They found him dead because he had committed suicide. Even after all these years he is one of the most hated men. This bad reputation is the result of his actions.

How to Take On College Studying

Part 3

Do The Reading

You need more than just the chapters you are assigned—you’re expected to understand them thoroughly. Here are some tips:

·      Don’t skim. Read all the material carefully.

·      Break up difficult assignments into sections you can digest—chapters, subsections, or even paragraphs.

·      Look up any words that you don’t understand.

·      Pause to think about whether you understand the material; ask questions in class about anything that is unclear.

·      Take notes instead of highlighting—this makes you think through and rephrase the key points.

·      Create a summary sheet of what you learned from each assignment you have read.

Choose The Right!!!