This week wer're talking about study skills. I wanna ask you a question. Now that you've attended class for a full week, tell me if you notice a difference between your high school teachers and your college professors? Do you find that you get more 1:1 time with your professors or your high school teachers? Do you find that your teachers in high school were less lenient than the professors here at IUP? Do you find that professors allow you to manage your experience and are more hands off, then the teachers in high school?
There is definitely a difference in the style of your professors and your former teachers. Now let me ask you about your professors teaching style. Do they lecture? Do they allow you to engage in discussion? Do they promote a hands on approach, where you're able to travel to the site you're studying or do what you're studying in class. Do your professors implement videos to help supplement their lecture?
Why is this important? Well it's important that you are aware of the teaching styles AND your learning style. Think about it. Are you a visual learner? (one who learns by seeing) Are you an audible learner? (one who learns by hearing) Are you a kinesthetic learner? (one who learns by doing or "hands on" learning) Ask yourself, where do I fall in these learning styles categories and how do they affect my ability to study and learn material in college?
If you are a visual learning, then watching a video will help you with the lecture materials. If you are a kinesthetic learner, than visiting the site of the place you're studying or actually doing a project will help you to learn the materials that you're learning in class. Doing what you're studying in class is beneficial for you.
Listen, you're in college and there are no excuses for failure. If you need to prepare for a test and you don't understand the material in the classroom, then there are a few things that you can do to help you go "above and beyond". Your classmates may complain that the 'class is this and the class is that', but you ARE DESTINED TO SUCCEED here at IUP. So here are a few tips:
- Establish a goal. Write down the GPA that you'd like to achieve this summer
- Visual learners, go to Youtube and searching the topic you're learning in class. Many times there are videos and quick videos that will help you to visual the material you've learned in class
- Stay after class, introduce yourself to your professor and share your goals
- Take advantage of your professors office hours. Stop in and see them so that they know that you are serious about achieving success in their class
- If you find that you're struggling with the material, ask the professor if they'd take the time to go over it one on one
Lastly, please take a look at Dr. Joe Martins book "Tricks of the Grade" Check out page 78 which gives you helpful tips on achieving success. In Chapter 10, he also suggests creating a study group of 2 or 3 people that are serious about studying. You CAN DO THIS...Study Study Study and remember to go ABOVE AND BEYOND to succeed! No excuses for failure!
S - Striving for Excellence, T - Tranisitioning Seamlessly, E - Embracing the College Expeereince and P - Positioning Yourself for Success!
Have a great rest of the week!
I think there is definitely a difference between the teachers at my high school and the teachers here. For one thing teachers here don’t pay too much attention on attendance. Students can either show up or not, or if they do come in late the teacher doesn’t let that person interrupt what the teacher is talking about. In high school it was the opposite, they had to take attendance and if you were late more than a couple times you’d get written up. I think that there is an equal amount of 1 on 1 time with teachers in high school and here at IUP. I don’t think my teachers at high school were more or less lenient than the professors because I think really depends on the person. I think that when it comes to assignments there is less directions on how we should do it and we are able to do it how we like, and what we think is the correct way. The professors here do lecture most of the time but I think that sense this summer session is short and they have to give us the information we need they kind of have to lecture. I think that during the fall the teaching styles of the professors will be different since they have more time to give us the information. They do allow us to engage in discussion, if we’d like to share our thoughts we are able to. Overall college is very different then high school, but it’s also similar in some ways. At the end of the day it’s your choice to show up for classes, to do your assignments, and to study for exams. It’s all up to whether you want to do good or not because our parents aren’t here to tell us to do so.
ReplyDeletei learn how to use my time wisely when i have homework due
ReplyDeleteI haven't really noticed a change.. I actually feel like college so far is easier. My teacher in high school wouldn't let us go to our locker if we didn't have an assignment due, you had to have it with you in class and in my English class i always see kids going back to there dorm because they forgot something. Everything seems to be the same teaching wise except my one class is lectures.. they let us join in, and there are sometimes videos. i learn best by taking notes or seeing something happen. i think things will be different in the fall though because everything is crammed into 5 weeks for the summer so the teachers could be teaching different.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed a difference from high school to college. I was horrible at high school, I learned different than my friends did, I didn't catch things as fast as them. I like college, I feel it's easier than high school was. I'm not exactly sure why that is though. It might be the teachers, my one professor does in fact lecture and I hate it. I'm pretty sure my whole entire class struggles to stay awake, I don't like how he teaches because I learn visually not verbally. I intake more by like taking notes or watching a movie rather than just listening to them talk for hours. That's boring. I am a little nervous for fall though because this is only a month long program and its not that bad, but fall is longer and we have more classes, I just hope I keep on the same track then as I am now.
ReplyDeleteYes, I have noticed a difference from my high school teachers to my college professors. At my high school I was able to get a lot more 1:1 with them because we were an extremely small school. I feel that my high school teachers were not more lenient than my college professors. My high school teachers were always on our backs about getting in all the work and particpating in class. In college they recommend that you get everything done and participate, but it's nothing compared to what my high school was. Yes, I feel that the professors will allow me to manage my experience and are more hands off than my high school teachers. Yes, my professors lecture. Yes, they allow us to engage in discussion. Yes, the professors implement videos to help supplememt their lecture, but not to often. I am more of a visual learner not a verbal. I gain more knowledge when I have to take notes, do a project on what we are learning about or watching a movie on what we are learning about in class.
ReplyDeleteBased on my experience at high school and being here, I have seen a difference in the teaching. High school teachers I did not get as much as one on one time with them as I get with the professors here. I seem to learn and focus a lot better when the professors are teaching in front of class than high school teachers. Professors actually want you to engage the conversation within class and does not want you to be left out, while teachers in high school do not let you talk because they only can. They feel like they just want to talk and then be done with the subject they are teachering, but professors go way beyond that so the students understand everything they need to. In high school I was afraid of talking out in class discussion, but here in college I am allowed to talk about what is on my mind. Teachers in high school were more about talking about the lesson than on powerpoint or video. Me, I am a hands on type of person because when I am involved with something I understand better, I actually learn. At college, professors use that strategy for students so they learn too.
ReplyDeleteI have been reading that book for one my classes and there is really great tips in there to know about college and how to get you through it. If I were you, I would read that.