Curriculum Overview

Objectives

This program is designed to assist students in developing the skills, tools, techniques and strategies necessary to be successful in school and in later life.

Through this program students will:

• Learn how to manage time efficiently and productively
  Setting priorities
  Setting realistic goals
  Scheduling and time allotment
  Writing and using a "To Do List"
  Using assignment notebooks effectively

• Learn how to establish a learning environment
  At home
  In school

• Learn to listen effectively and to follow directions

• Learn to take notes on what they have read
  Understanding paragraph development
  Finding the main ideas
  Methodology

• Learn to take notes from lectures
  Simulated lectures
  Actual lectures

• Learn to outline

• Learn how to study for tests

• Learn how to perform well on tests

• Learn how to improve memory skills
  Visualization
  Association
  Key words
  Mnemonics

• Learn how to read charts, graphs and tables

• End of the year project