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ɖ℩ ñɔɔz℩ kpɛlɛkʋʋ nʋmɔʋ taa

• Learning to learn
• Scheduling and setting goals
• Managing time
• Managing stress
• Avoiding procrastination
• Thinking critically
• Thinking like a genius
• Developing self-discipline
• Motivating yourself
• Adaptive decision-making
• Managing by exception
• Making decisions/solving problems

Learning

• Mapping information for learning
• Problem based learning
• Learning as an adult
• Learning as a student-athlete
  or student-performer
• Visual learner
• Thinking aloud/private speech
• Learning with ADHD
• Exploring your own learning style
  - outside links

Kpɛlɛkʋʋ tɛ nʋmɔʋ ñ℩nʋʋ

• Effective study habits
• Concentrating
• Memorizing
• A.S.P.I.R.E. - a study system
• Index - a study system
• Studying with multiple sources
• Vocabulary building exercise
• "Study" print bibliography
• Study skills web sites - outside links
• Free digitized texts, books, services- outside links

Sukuli ɖaŋ

• Preparing for the classroom
• Paying attention
• Classroom discussions
• Taking notes in lectures
• Influencing teachers
• Guided notes

Ɛyʋ nɛ lɛlaa pɛkpɛlɛkʋʋ

• Active Listening
• Collaborative/cooperative learning
• Studying in groups
• Conflict resolution
• Peer mediation
• Tutoring guidelines
• Using feedback
  and working with tutors

Tovenim ñ℩nʋʋ

• Online learning
  Succeeding with distance education
• Webtruth:
  Evaluating website content
• Netiquette
  E-guides on social interaction
• Developing your website
• Basics of webdesign and accessbility
• Making your website popular
• Web design bibliography
  - outside links

Kalʋ kpɛlɛkʋʋ

• Reading critically
• Prereading strategies
• SQ3R reading method
• KWL reading method
• Reading difficult material
• Taking notes from a text book
• Reading essays
• Reading fiction
• Fiction:
  narrator & character types
• Speed & comprehension
• Marking & underlining

Santalaʋ waa ñɔzʋ

• General test preparation
• Anticipating test content
• Review tools for tests
• Overcoming test anxiety
• Organizing for test taking
• Cramming
• Emergency test preparation
• Testing bibliography

Santalaʋ naa labu ɖeu nɛ hiƔu

• Ten tips for terrific test taking
• True/false tests
• Multiple choice tests
• Short answer tests
• Open book exams
• Oral exams
• Essay Exams
• Essay exam terms/directives

Matu kpɛlɛkʋʋ

• Seven stages of writing assignments

• Develop your topic (1)

• Identify your audience (2)

• Research (3)

• Organize and prewrite (4)

• Draft/write (5)

• Revise (6)

• Proofread (7)

• Transitional words & phrases
• Modifiers & commas
• Spelling - American

Matu kpɛlɛkʋʋ

• Writing under deadline
• Writing for the "Web"
• The five-paragraph essay
• Essays for a literature class
• Expository essays
• Persuasive essays
• Position papers
• Writing Strategies Learned
  by Stephen Wilbers
• Print bibliography for writing
• Internet bibliography for writing

Ñ℩nʋʋ tʋm℩yɛ taa

• Writing research papers
• Researching on the Internet
• Organizing research with computers
  & avoiding plagiarism
• Organizing research
  Creating note cards
• Citing websites

Ñ℩nʋʋ tʋm℩yɛ taa

• Managing by exception
• Developing case studies
• Organizing projects
• Developing spreadsheets
  and budgets
• Presenting projects/speeches
• Public speaking
• Interviewing for class projects
  • Consent form

A kɔnta labʋ bɛ ɛjaɖɛ yɔɔ lɔŋ kpɛlɛkʋʋ

• Math tests
• Solving linear equations
• Solving math word problems
• Evaluating algebraic expressions
  Order of operations/ P.E.M.D.A.S.
• Math bibliography
  - web sites with on-line help

A kɔnta labʋ bɛ ɛjaɖɛ yɔɔ lɔŋ kpɛlɛkʋʋ

• Following the scientific method
• Studying text books in science
• Writing lab reports and scientific papers
• Writing white papers
• Lab safety - outside links
• Sudoku 数独
  - links: having fun thinking logically

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