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Educators spend many hours each day teaching students how to compute math, how to speak a foreign language, or even how to understand the workings of the human body. Yet, sometimes we do not spend enough time teaching students how to study. These skills do not come naturally. They must be taught. Mastering and continually using good study skills will give your child the edge to achieve success in school and in the future.
I run the Academic Studies program to teach students how to study. The following study skills are included in the program:
- Setting up a proper home study environment
- Managing time at school and at home
- Setting goals
- Actively listening and taking relevant lecture notes in class
- Reading a textbook and recording important facts and memory triggers
- Studying class and textbook notes for an upcoming test
- Successfully taking teacher-generated and standardized tests
With your support and motivation at home, students will have all the ingredients they need to make study time more effective and perhaps more “hassle-free”.
Your child does not need a lot of space in which to study at home, but will do best in a quiet, well-lit location with all the necessary supplies close at hand. Here is a list of supplies students usually need, but do not necessarily have, close at hand during study time. It is not required that you run to the store and buy everything on this list. With your child, gather those items you already have around the house, and then gather the rest of the items as your child needs them.
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From time to time your child will bring home “how to study” worksheets, checklists and letters from me.
Please read the information presented on your child’s worksheets. These study tips and procedures are extremely important. I will be asking that all students keep these sheets in a special “STUDY SKILLS” folder. Take a look at the folder occasionally and help your child utilize these study skills. The cooperation between school and home will assure the success of this program.
ICA offers a peer tutoring program everyday during lunch and after school in room 205. The members of NHS and CSF are here to dedicate their academic talent through peer tutoring, to help all of the students here at Immaculate Conception become more success academically.
Thank you for your support,
Amy Hastings
FLAME Director
(Focused Learning for Academic Motivation and Excellence)
