Winning the Study Game : Guide for Resource Specialists - A Systematic Program for Teaching Middle School and High School Special Education Students Study, Strategies-Thinking, Time-Management, and Problem-Solving Skills, for Grade 6-11

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ISBN: 9781890455460 | 1890455466
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Copyright: 8/23/2002

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Formerly published by Peytral PublicationsWinning the Study Game: Guide for Resource Specialists offers a step-by-step model for developing special education students' study skills, as well as proficiency in strategic thinking, time management, and problem solving. Facilitators will find more than 100 interactive exercises, instructional strategies for individuals or small groups, and activities that give students the opportunity to practice, apply, and internalize new skills.

About the Author

iii

Introduction

(12)

Part 1: Getting Organized

(26)

Developing a Personal Study Plan

(7)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

The Residual Effects of Learning Problems

(1)

Self-Discipline

(1)

The Daily Homework Battle

(1)

Thinking and Planning Ahead

(1)

Making Your Own Study Schedule

(1)

My Personal Study-Schedule Contract

(1)

Study Breaks

(2)

Recording Your Assignments

(6)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Confusion and Chaos

(1)

Predicting What Will Happen

(1)

Creating a Personal Homework-Recording System

(1)

Practice Writing Down Assignments

(1)

Completing Your Personal Assignment Sheet

(3)

Organizing Your Study Materials

(4)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Organization and Productivity

(2)

Examining Someone Else's Study Procedure

(1)

Identifying the Specifics

(1)

Evaluating Another Person's Study Style

(1)

Predicting What Will Happen

(1)

Making Certain You Have the Necessary Materials

(1)

Organizing Your Binder

(1)

Answers to True/False Quiz

(1)

Creating the Best Study Environment

(6)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Reducing Distractions

(1)

Examining How Someone Else Studies

(1)

Identifying the Specifics

(1)

Evaluating the Identified Study Procedures

(1)

Predicting What Will Happen

(1)

Defending a Position

(1)

Doing Several Things at Once

(1)

Creating Your Own Study Fortress

(1)

What's Right in This Picture?

(1)

What's Wrong in This Picture?

(1)

Ideas for Reducing Distractions When You Study

(1)

Experimenting with Reducing Distractions

(1)

Plotting Your Progress

(2)

Having a Master Plan

(2)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Making Effective Study Procedures a Habit

(1)

Putting the Plan into Action

(1)

Developing Your Own Master Study Plan

(1)

Part 2: Power-Charging Your Studying

(28)

Power-Reading

(9)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

The Reading Skills Hierarchy

(3)

Mind-Mapping

(1)

Learning a Method for Studying More Efficiently

(1)

Learning How to Speed-Read

(1)

Practicing Mind-Mapping

(1)

Reviewing and Completing the Mind-Mapping Steps

(1)

Answering the Title Question

(3)

Powering Up Your Reading Comprehension

(6)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Digesting Important Information

(1)

Confronting a Disaster

(1)

Weighing the Options

(1)

How the Brain Works When You Read

(1)

The ``Chewing-Up Information'' Method

(1)

Learning More Steps to the ``Chewing-Up Information'' Method

(1)

A Practice Quiz

(1)

Examining How You Did on the Quiz

(1)

Taking Notes

(6)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Coasting in Mental Neutral

(2)

Learning How to Take Notes

(1)

Mastery: More Practice Note-Taking

(1)

Answering Essay Questions

(1)

Answering Subtitle Questions

(1)

Answering Title Question

(1)

Distinguishing Main Ideas from Details

(2)

Studying for Tests

(6)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Devising a Personalized Test-Taking Method

(2)

Learning How to Study Effectively for a Test

(1)

A Final Test-Preparation Template

(1)

Making Up and Answering Short-Answer Questions

(1)

Making Up and Answering True/False Questions

(1)

Making Up and Answering Multiple-Choice Questions

(1)

Working Back from Multiple-Choice Answers

(1)

Jolting Your Memory

(1)

Making Powerful Associations

(1)

Making Up Tests

(1)

Being Relaxed When You Take a Test

(1)

Part 3: Thinking Smart

(40)

Problem-Solving

(5)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Getting to the Core of a Problem

(1)

Surrounded by Chaos

(1)

DIBS: A Problem-Solving Method

(1)

Practicing the DIBS Method

(1)

Mastery: Further Practice with DIBS

(2)

Goals

(6)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Strategic Thinking

(2)

Figuring Out How to Get What You Want

(1)

Checking Out Feelings

(1)

Solving Problems

(1)

What Are Your Goals?

(1)

A Letter to Myself--My Goals in School

(1)

An Experiment with Goal-Setting

(1)

Using Goals to Solve Problems

(1)

Priorities

(4)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Creating a Hierarchy of Importance

(1)

Figuring Out the Right Order

(1)

Establishing Your Own Priorities

(1)

Combining Priorities and Goals

(1)

Mastery: More Practice Establishing Priorities

(1)

A Plan That Didn't Work

(1)

What I Have Learned about Priorities

(1)

Strategies

(6)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Developing a Plan of Action

(1)

Teaching Students How to Develop Strategies

(1)

The Motivation Factor

(1)

Getting What You Want

(1)

Creating Your Own Strategy

(1)

Changing Course

(1)

More Practice Developing Strategies

(1)

A Strategy That Failed

(1)

Reviewing What's Smart and What's Not Smart

(1)

Cause and Effect

(6)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Future Thinking

(2)

Considering the Possibilities

(1)

Considering the Consequences

(1)

The Decision Point

(1)

Identifying the Decision Point

(1)

Describing a Decision Point in Your Own Life

(1)

Practice Figuring Out the Effect (or Consequence)

(1)

Practice Figuring Out the Cause

(1)

What Would You Do?

(1)

Mastery: More Practice Figuring Out Causes

(1)

Identifying the Cause and the Effect

(1)

Applying Cause and Effect to Your Own Life

(1)

What I Have Learned about Cause and Effect

(1)

Heading Off Problems

(6)

Objectives

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

(1)

Providing an Antidote for Flawed Judgment

(1)

Trouble Can Ambush You

(1)

Making Tough Decisions

(1)

Doing the Right Thing

(1)

Using Your Head to Avoid Problems

(1)

Re-Examining the Thinking-Smart Checklist

(1)

Mastery: More Practice Avoiding Problems

(1)

What Would You Do?

100

(1)

Power-Thinking

101

(6)

Objectives

101

(1)

Basic Lesson Plan

101

(1)

Acquiring Perspective

101

(1)

Establishing the Habit of Success and Achievement

102

(1)

Assessing What You Have Learned about Study Skills

103

(1)

Reviewing the DIBS Problem-Solving Method

103

(1)

Final Practice with DIBS

103

(1)

Common Sense and Using Your Head

103

(1)

Handling Temptations

104

(1)

Deciding What's Smart

104

(1)

Feeling Proud, Powerful, and Self-Confident

104

(3)

Appendix

107

(20)

My Weekly Schedule

108

(1)

My Study-Schedule Contract

109

(1)

Practice Assignment Sheet

110

(1)

My Personal Assignment Sheet

111

(1)

Checklist #1 - Materials to Bring Home

112

(1)

Checklist #2 - Materials to Bring to School

112

(1)

Checklist #3 - Home Study Environment

113

(1)

Keeping Track of My Performance During the Experiment

114

(1)

My Personal Performance Chart

115

(1)

Keeping Track of My Performance

116

(1)

Sample Mind-Map

117

(1)

Completed Mind-Map

118

(1)

Lasers: Expanding the Frontiers of Science and Technology

119

(3)

Cleopatra -- One of the Most Fascinating Queens in History

122

(3)

A Letter to Myself

125

(1)

Weekly Goal Sheet

126

(1)

My Strategy

127

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Winning the Study Game : Guide for Resource Specialists - A Systematic Program for Teaching Middle School and High School Special Education Students Study, Strategies-Thinking, Time-Management, and Problem-Solving Skills, for Grade 6-11

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