Shea Week 7

This week, we talked about self monitoring, focusing on note taking and study skills. Erin led an activity in which the students were divided into three groups and given a different set of notes with varying levels of quality on how to build a paper airplane. The students with the better sets of notes were able to complete the task more accurately than my group, which had very unclear notes. The students responded well to the activity and understood the importance of the quality of their notes. After the activity, we talked about taking notes and study skills. The students had some good strategies for note taking, like using bullet points. When we were talking about study habits, some students said they usually studied ahead of time and tried to break things up into smaller pieces to remember them more easily. This was encouraging to hear and will certainly help them to achieve the grades necessary to move on to and succeed in college. However, some students said they only studied right before the test. I think it is important to encourage these students to become more enthusiastic about school now so that they will be move motivated to continue on to college.