What is the most important skill? I'll give you a clue - you're doing it right now. It's not reading, although reading is an extremely important pathway of learning.
It's "thinking". The most important skill involves learning how to use our internal software and hardware. The hardware being the brain and the software being thinking patterns or "thoughts".
This letter is to introduce you to the study skills guide and how "thinking" is the real reason for it's creation, which took about 6 months and sums up some of the most important "ACTION" and "LEARN to THINK" activities I've either come across in my teaching or that I've learned from others.
So what are the benefits of using the guide? I see the following benefits:
The guide is a personal learning resource and reference for
the learner, presenting easy to use strategies.
The guide targets important skills and in particular "attitude".
"Study Skills," is a way to promote proactive learning.
This resource is a personal development course to work
through at the individual's pace.
The guide provides essential transferable skills needed to
acquire understandings and knowledge.
The guide provides the perfect transition course for year 8
students.
Hi, Joseph Sgro here. I'm the author of The study skills guide - created with the student's success in mind.
I believe it will work best with year 8 students and I will give you a money-back guarantee, if your school makes every attempt to seriously incorporate this programme in the school curriculum and uses it diligently with all year 8 students from the start of the school year, but decides it is not suitable.
In class students are expected to understand the question, know how to research, collect information, sift through the data and come up with a logical way of presenting the information.
Those requirements presume that students already have those skills and are motivated. Do your students demonstrate a lack of goals and purpose? Does student behaviour produce a poor class environment and sloppy results?
Would you like your students to be more motivated to succeed and would you be eager to see them develop a new sense of purpose, with goals that will promote learning, more enthusiasm and acceptable class behaviour?
All of these things are possible!
Students can be encouraged and guided in class to establish more powerful goals to create "purpose" in what they do - aren't powerful goals what work best for adults?
Students need to be shown how to find the resources, how to decide which information is relevant, how to make notes and how to organize and present that information. The guide focuses firstly on developing the right attitude and sense of purpose. Spending time on these essential aspects will virtually guarantee better results from your students.
What really happens? Most of the time is spent on disrupting students and not on developing skills and learning content.
Fine tuning…..what is happening and why?
How many students today walk into class feeling apprehensive and wonder whether this will be just another opportunity to fail? They do not see that there is anything to learn from failure other than that they are not worthy of success.
How do we help them through a difficult growing period in their lives? How do we turn our words into actions?
This is why the study skills guide was developed. It was a way of offering a friendly hand and some reassurance, while students tackled those dreaded assignments and devour the endless content.
Each page attempts to make a contribution by reinforcing or explaining essential skills and understandings. Some points merely need revising to refresh what we already know, while other sections set the scene for important learning.
Fine tuning our approach to learning…..
The skills section is the last section in the guide because the text is more than just exercises - it is a short personal development course.
The first section covers "attitude" and how this will influence the results we want. Without some attention to the student as a person, with feelings and a personal agenda, we may gloss over what education is really about.
Of the five sections, attitude is the most important element in life, because it is our personal response to life that really matters and the making of our success or failure.
You may have noticed something special in the title, "Study Skills - for students who will only settle for success". The title is an expression of our journey and how we must "expect" and "work towards our own success". It would be great if we were just handed our success and told we could go and enjoy it - unfortunately it will never happen!
The students in our care look to us for guidance and because there are so many all wanting our attention, our time is stretched to the limit.
The study skills guide will not solve all educational problems. It's major benefit is that it becomes a useful resource for any student to discover ways of learning essential skills and thus improving their learning.
It provides examples of how to improve the effectiveness of learning strategies and it will be available when the teacher is not around to answer the question of "how?" or "what?" do I do.
Even though the guide is written for the student audience, I would not assume that the teacher has become obsolete. With a little direction students will realize that they now have a resource to help them plan and to improve the effectiveness of what they do.
MAJOR BENEFITS OF USING "STUDY SKILLS"
So what are the benefits of using the guide? I see the following benefits:
The guide is a personal learning resource and reference for the
learner, presenting easy to use strategies.
Our guide targets important skills.
"Study Skills," is a way to promote proactive learning.
This resource is a personal development course to work
through at the individual's pace.
It provides a method of correcting the balance between the
need for content and acquiring the essential skills.
The guide provides the perfect transition course for year 8
students.
I am confident that you will find these benefits attractive and begin to understand my enthusiasm and desire to bring this valuable resource to your attention.
One major benefit is that the guide is easy to read as well as helpful. Our section on goals is an opportunity for students to create the internal motivation and drive, giving "purpose" to what they do in class.
As adults we need goals to motivate us and give purpose to what we do. We mustn't forget how important this requirement of purpose is to the student.
MAJOR BENEFITS FOR TEACHERS
What will the guide do for teachers? The benefits are as follows:
Teachers have a handy resource for when there is a problem
with developing essential skills.
The study guide is a reminder not to assume students have the
required skills, and it answers questions such as, what do I
need to teach?
Teachers do not need to generate the lessons.
A way of developing skills which are transferable across the
curriculum and a helpful year 8 transition programme.
A way to improve communication between teachers and
students. Most topics lend themselves to encourage
discussion.
A way to promote the development of important life skills
such as: writing; reading; speaking and organizational
management.
In the final analysis the usefulness of anything depends on the user and what they do with what they have.
MAJOR BENEFITS FOR THE SCHOOL
The school would benefit in the following ways:
By incorporating study skills in the school curriculum, the school can build a better learning environment and encourage teachers to work more eagerly on future school programmes.
The school has a new way of providing on-going pastoral care
by providing a valuable resource for students.
The school has a new way of promoting skill development and
in particular life skills.
The school has a valuable resource especially for new teachers
and another way of turning school policy into action.
The school has another visual expression of a programme
which can be shared with the community to demonstrate the
focus on personal development of its students and a helpful
transition course for starting year 8 students.
If you have read diligently till now, thank you.
I understand how important time is to you and I thank you for your time. I sincerely believe that the guide, "Study Skills - for students who will settle only for success", provides an opportunity to achieve many educational objectives. So call this number(08 95355927) NOW!
Purchase "Study Skills, for students who will settle only for success," for a limited time, collect a 25% discount, pay only $8.95 per copy and let the journey begin.
One more Special Bonus - "online support". I know what it's like to teach in the classoom. I understand and for this reason and to do the best I can to make your program successful I will include "my support". Just mail me and I will answer your questions and help you where I can. I've never offered this before but we are in a NEW age and I understand the demands you have on you for time and performance.
Kind Regards,
Joseph Sgro
Tutor Help
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