The Power of Study Groups

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Getting the Most of a Session

Here are some tips to help your group get the most out of each study session:

·      Decide what you’re doing in advance.

·      Prepare for the sessions, so you make the most of your time together.

·      Take turns teaching to reinforce your own knowledge.

·      Stick to the session topic.

By supplementing your individual study with a study group, you can reinforce what you've learned, deepen your understanding of complex concepts, and maybe even make a few new friends. Remember that a friend is a person who encourages you to do your best and to achieve on a high level, one who pushes you to try a little harder and be a little better. If someone pulls you down the wrong trails of life, then those people are not friends, (they are actually your enemies), and you must avoid them at all cost. Whoever said learning can’t be fun? Learning is enjoyable and exciting when you study with others.

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The Power of Study Groups

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Guidelines for Getting a Group Together

Here are some guidelines for creating and running a study group: How many? Create a group of four to six people. In a larger group, it’s easy for someone to get lest out and smaller groups can too easily get off track.

Who? Pick classmates who seem to share your interest in doing well academically. Look for people who stay alert in class, take notes, ask questions, and respond to the teacher’s questions. Include someone who understands the material better than you and can explain the concepts and someone who doesn't understand it as well, to whom you can explain the material.

Where? Hold study group sessions in a place that is free of distractions and that has room to spread out books and notes. How long? Meet for no more than two to three hours at a time. Having a time limit helps the group focus. If you know you only have an hour, you’re more likely to stay on task.

When? Try to meet regularly, on the same day and time each week. Treating the study session as you would other activities helps you to keep a schedule and ensures that everyone attends.

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The Power of Study Groups

http://www.collegboard.com/student/plan/high-school/20-432.html

Part 3

Guidelines for Getting a Group Together

Here are some guidelines for creating and running a study group: How many? Create a group of four to six people. In a larger group, it’s easy for someone to get lest out and smaller groups can too easily get off track.

Who? Pick classmates who seem to share your interest in doing well academically. Look for people who stay alert in class, take notes, ask questions, and respond to the teacher’s questions. Include someone who understands the material better than you and can explain the concepts and someone who doesn't understand it as well, to whom you can explain the material.

Where? Hold study group sessions in a place that is free of distractions and that has room to spread out books and notes. How long? Meet for no more than two to three hours at a time. Having a time limit helps the group focus. If you know you only have an hour, you’re more likely to stay on task.

When? Try to meet regularly, on the same day and time each week. Treating the study session as you would other activities helps you to keep a schedule and ensures that everyone attends.

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The Power of Study Groups

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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.

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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.

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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.

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        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!!!