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Empower Your Learning: Strategies for Academic Success

Join Dr. Hector Arroyo at the LEAD Office on September 28, 2013, to enhance your academic skills. Explore topics like time management, studying, note-taking, and test-taking. Discover your learning style and personality type to optimize your performance. Parents, learn how to support your child's learning journey. Access resources like tutoring, counseling, and the Pomona Health Careers Ladder. Help your child prioritize education and excel academically. Let's work together for a brighter future!

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Empower Your Learning: Strategies for Academic Success

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  1. Pipeline to Health Careers Dr. Hector Arroyo LEAD Office Saturday Academy September 28, 2013

  2. LEAD Office • The function of the Learning Enhancement and Academic Development is to assist WesternU students in various academic/ educational ways: • Individual Academic Counseling • Academic Assessment • Tutoring • Workshops

  3. About Myself…

  4. LEAD Workshops • Time Management • Studying • Reading • Note-taking • Test-taking

  5. About you… • Find out your learning style (VARK) • http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=helpsheets • Find out your Type (MBTI) • http://keirsey.com/4temps/overview_temperaments.asp

  6. Time Management • Make a schedule • Balance your schedule • Don’t over pack your schedule • Be realistic • Keep to your schedule

  7. Prioritize • Task: List all tasks needing to be done • Urgent: requiring immediate action (time) • Important: significant or consequence (value)

  8. Prioritize Important Not Important Not Urgent Urgent

  9. Parents… how you can help • Get your child organized • Ask about priorities • Help your child manage time

  10. Studying • Study when you are most alert • Take breaks • Keep it manageable

  11. Preview vs. Review • Preview • Developing interest • Looking at main ideas • Review • Verifying information • Separating what you know vs. don’t know

  12. Parents… how you can help • Designate a regular study place • Minimize distractions

  13. Reading • Prepare yourself • Reading is situational • Type of text • Familiarity with topic • You matter • Previous knowledge of topic • Cultural and/or social language • Attitude toward topic • Tired? Hungry? Bad day?

  14. SQ3R • Survey: look at headings, charts, illustrations • Question: make questions • Read: for answers • Recite: test self with Q & A • Review: later, to keep fresh

  15. Parents… how you can help

  16. Note-taking • Listen to the speaker • Summarize notes • Categorize notes • Choose appropriate method

  17. Note-taking • Identify what strategies work best for you • Draw Pictures, Mind Map • Books on Tape, Read your Notes/Problems Aloud • Take Notes as you Read, Summarizing • Field Trips, Labs, Hands-On, Do It

  18. Test-taking skills (Prep) • Study • Eat right • Exercise • Get enough sleep • Learn to relax

  19. Parents… how you can help

  20. Test-taking skills (Process)

  21. Parents… how you can help • Be positive • Release perfectionism

  22. Access resources • People: • Parents, Teachers, Mentors, Students • Libraries: • Computers, Internet, CD’s, Books, etc.. • Support programs • Tutoring • Academic Counseling • Pomona Health Careers Ladder (PHCL)

  23. Shoot for an “A.” • Grades are really important; they are what colleges look at when deciding acceptance • Don’t make excuses. • Extra-curricular activities and part-time jobs are nice, but learn to prioritize

  24. Parents… how you can help • Talk and Listen to your child • Identify problem areas • Value education • Encourage learning • Be there

  25. Thank you. • Questions?

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