Using
Natural Ability to Improve Study Strategies: A Model Based on Multiple Intelligence
Theory
This is where life experience, natural ability and the classroom connect. Academic
success may depend on
how students are intelligent, not on
how
intelligent they are. Participants identify personal strengths and learn
how to apply them in the classroom.
The concepts presented in this
workshop are based on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory.
Building Success through Goal Setting
In this interactive session, students identify long-term and short-term goals,
discuss the importance of goal setting and engage in a hands-on activity that
allows students to explore the role of goal-setting in their lives.
Beat the Clock: Learning to Manage Time
Finding the time to attend classes, complete class assignments, maintain a job
and also have a social life is a problem most college students face. In this
workshop, students learn how to gain control over time, develop a manageable
schedule and overcome procrastination.
Study Strategies Grab Bag
Student centered, fun, and informative, this workshop encourages participants
to throw their study strategies questions into a grab bag for discussion. The
facilitator, a study strategies expert, guides the discussion, but all participants
are invited to share their insight and experience regarding the best ways to
study.
Reading for Information
In this workshop, students learn how to make more sense of their textbooks
by discovering how to prepare themselves before they begin reading, how to actively
read so that they will remember the material and what to do with the information
once they have finished reading.
Mastering the Art of Taking Notes in a Lecture Class
How do other students know what to write in their notes during lecture? How
do they make sense of their notes in order to study for the tests? Why bother
taking notes at all? Students will learn the answers to these and other questions
regarding note taking in the lecture classroom.
Turning Lecture Notes into Learning Tools
In this workshop, students will learn how to translate their lecture notes from
the voice of the instructor to that of their own. Participants will discover
note taking techniques that incorporate personal learning styles, prior knowledge
and natural ability.
Pulling it Together: Tools for Test Preparation
The all night cram session, the caffeine overload, the last minute prayer--while
popular approaches to test preparation, they lack the promise of a passing grade.
Students will learn the more effective tricks of the trade for excelling on
tests. They will discover how to predict test questions, use textbooks and notes
for preparing for tests, and incorporate other strategies to help them achieve
success.
Taking the Guesswork out of Test Taking
There is no mysterious wand work, no secret code, no hocus pocus behind excelling
on tests. In fact, there are very practical and specific techniques behind successful
test taking. Students will learn and apply these techniques and also discover
ways to overcome test anxiety.
Solving
Problems Creatively
Whether working with tinker toys to solve a current problem in society or engaging
in an interactive ropes activity that requires out-of-the-box thinking, participants
learn to hone their creative problem-solving skills.
Building Teamwork
Who will win the bid? In this active workshop, a ficitional company (T.E.A.M)
has plans to develop Toledo's waterfront; it is one of the biggest projects
the city has ever seen. T.E.A.M has invited all interested builders (the workshop
participants) to participate in a unique competition. The team of builders that
constructs the tallest, free-standing structure (under strict time constraints)
will win the bid.
