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Featured guide of the week: Developing self-discipline

Preparing

• Time Management
• Scheduling and setting goals
• Creating a to-do list
• Organizing tasks
• Motivating yourself
• Managing stress
• Avoiding procrastination
• Developing self-discipline
• Problem solving

Learning

• Learning to learn
• Visual learner
• Learning as a student-athlete
  or student-performer
• Learning as an adult
• Learning with ADHD
• Thinking critically
• Thinking like a genius
• Concept or mind mapping
• Thinking aloud/private speech

Studying

• Effective study habits
• Concentrating
• Memorizing
• A.S.P.I.R.E. - a study system
• Index - a study system
• Create, & study with, flashcards
• Studying with multiple sources

Learning with others

• Collaborative/cooperative learning
• Action learning
• Problem based learning
• Studying in groups
• Active Listening
• Conflict resolution
• Peer mediation
• Tutoring guidelines
• Using feedback
  and working with tutors

Online learning/ communicating

• Online learning
• Webtruth:
  Evaluating website content
• Netiquette
  E-guides on social interaction
• Developing your website
• Basics of webdesign and accessbility
• Making your website popular
• Web design bibliography
  - outside links

Classroom participation

• Preparing for the classroom
• Paying attention
• Classroom discussions
• Taking notes in lectures
• Influencing teachers
• Guided notes
• Interviewing for class projects
  • Consent form

Project management

• Organizing projects
• Managing by exception
• Developing case studies
• Public speaking
• Presenting projects/speeches
• Spreadsheets and budgets
• Setting your (school) budget

Research

• Writing research papers
• Researching on the Internet
• Organizing research with computers
  & avoiding plagiarism
• Organizing research
  Creating note cards
• Citing websites

Reading skills

• Reading critically
• Prereading strategies
• SQ3R reading method
• KWL reading method
• Reading difficult material
• Taking notes from a text book
• Reading essays
• Reading fiction
• Fiction:
  narrator & character types
• Speed & comprehension
• Marking & underlining

Preparing for Tests

• General test preparation
• Anticipating test content
• Review tools for tests
• Overcoming test anxiety
• Organizing for test taking
• Cramming
• Emergency test preparation
• Testing bibliography

Taking Tests

• Ten tips for terrific test taking
• Taking online tests
• True/false tests
• Multiple choice tests
• Short answer tests
• Open book exams
• Oral exams
• Essay Exams

Writing Basics

• Seven stages of writing assignments

• Develop your topic (1)
• Identify your audience (2)
• Research (3)
• Organize and prewrite (4)
• Draft/write (5)
• Revise (6)
• Proofread (7)
• Writing under deadline

Writing Types

• Writing for the "Web"
• The five-paragraph essay
• Essays for a literature class
• Expository essays
• Persuasive essays
• Position papers
• Writing Strategies Learned
  by Stephen Wilbers
• Print bibliography for writing
• Internet bibliography for writing

Vocabulary/spelling

• Transitional words & phrases
• Spelling strategies (American)
• Spelling rules & exercises
• Common misspelled words
• Essay terms/directives
• Modifiers & commas
• Vocabulary building exercise
• Using analogies for creative problem solving
• Picturing vocabulary

• Learning Exercises & Games
• Exploring your own learning style- outside links
• "Study" print bibliography
• Study skills web sites
  - outside links
• Free digitized texts, books, services- outside links

Math

• Math tests
• Solving linear equations
• Solving math word problems
• Evaluating algebraic expressions
  Order of operations/ P.E.M.D.A.S.
• Math bibliography
  - web sites with on-line help

Science and Technology

• Following the scientific method
• Studying text books in science
• Writing lab reports and scientific papers
• Writing white papers
• Lab safety - outside links
• Sudoku 数独