Developing study skills

Shannon LeClair
Times Contributor

 

Learning how to study effectively can be tough, especially in high school when there are often many distractions that need immediate attention.
On Nov. 19 Greg Markusson, with the CanLearn Society, was in Strathmore to teach a group of Strathmore High School (SHS) students how to develop study skills.
Markusson spoke about time management, creating a study plan, how to study effectively, and memory tips, and offered test-taking skills.
“It’s just one of the focuses that we realized at Strathmore High School that our students need those skills and that our teachers are going to work on developing those skills in class,” said school counsellor Karen Harris.
“We just realized that kids don’t know how to study, and really how many of us do know how to study, and we all create our own study things that work for us. We recognize that there are different learners and that different learners have different styles, so he’s just trying to present a broad range of this might work for you, set it up.
“These kids, they’re going to get something out of it, they might not get everything but they’re going to hopefully get one or two (tips) that they go back and incorporate.”
Harris said the ultimate goal is to have the teacher organizing lessons so that the study skills will both be encouraged, and facilitated.
Approximately 45 students attended the session, which is higher than the number that attended the test anxiety session offered last year.