Do you have an ideal study location? You know, a place where you can get your work done easily. Here is a list of great places with Pros ans Cons for each.
Home – desk
Pros -
Desk to work on
All equipment in the same place
Away from distractions
Cons -
Away from family
Lack of supervision – easy to start doing [...]
Today I would like to revise how to use the Study Folder. It should be quite full now. Here is a list of the different tabs you need in your folder, with suggested items for each tab.
Mind Dump (discussed on Day 4)
Trigger for Teenagers
4 plastic protectors: “To Do Now”, “School”, “Study” and “Personal”
Weekly Overview (Day [...]
Today I would like to talk one more time about the Weekly Plan. We have talked about the weekly plan twice already.
Day 5: Weekly Overview
On Day 5 I asked you to keep a record of all the activities you complete in a week. You had to keep a record of everything you do when you [...]
Well done, we are so close to the end. For the next 3 days we are going to recap the important elements to being organized.
The Daily Plan
This is a reminder of all the tasks you need to do everyday. You can find blank sheets of the Daily Plan under “Tools”. I will also be adding [...]
I found this question really interesting so asked the reader for more information.
Well the reader described the perfect start to a new school year. She had all the correct equipment, and it was correctly She went to school, and after a week her locker looked like a bomb site.
I think this question could be asked [...]
The point of a Back-Up System is to make sure you never loose any assignments, homework or revision. I am sorry to say that if you follow my suggestions you will never be able to say “my dog ate it” or “the computer died”. And quite frankly, you don’t want to say that to a [...]
Finally, we have moved away from cleaning.
Now that everything is clean we can get back to it and start using that Study Folder again. You haven’t lost it have you!
Wait, one more step.
Study Skills Resources
Here is a list of resources that I think you need access to on a daily basis. You might not need [...]