You need a To Do List

checklist

If you are like me keeping organized is a constant struggle. One of the most useful and actually the simplest tool in this battle is the “To Do List”. It is so easy that a lot of people dismiss it. However, I spend an entire class period in my Study Skills class discussing how [...]

Writing down worries helps with tests

This is an article I found in the Wednesday, January 19, 2011, Oregonian Newspaper

The by line is –McClatchy-Tribune

Today’s teen know well the alphabet soup of high-stakes tests-The SATS, the ACTs the APs and the flurry of finals at the end of every sememster

But they might not know about a proven new [...]

Study skills and forgetting

Do you feel anxious about remembering information?  Our brains work like the computers you use everyday.  There is a short term memory and a long term memory part of your brain.  The short term memory part can only remember at most five things at a time.  It is analogous to a little box.  It gets [...]

Try This!

I’d like you to try a little experiment.  Take your hands and fold them, knitting your fingers together.  Check it out.  Which thumb did you place on top?  Was it the thumb of your right or your left hand?  Now unclasp your hands.  Knit your fingers together again, however, this time do it so [...]