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

by Lawrence J. Greene

• ISBN13: 9781890455460
• ISBN10: 1890455466
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-23
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

About the Author	iii
Introduction	1	(12)
Part 1: Getting Organized	13	(26)
Developing a Personal Study Plan	14	(7)
Objectives	14	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	14	(1)
The Residual Effects of Learning Problems	15	(1)
Self-Discipline	16	(1)
The Daily Homework Battle	17	(1)
Thinking and Planning Ahead	18	(1)
Making Your Own Study Schedule	18	(1)
My Personal Study-Schedule Contract	19	(1)
Study Breaks	19	(2)
Recording Your Assignments	21	(6)
Objectives	21	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	21	(1)
Confusion and Chaos	22	(1)
Predicting What Will Happen	23	(1)
Creating a Personal Homework-Recording System	23	(1)
Practice Writing Down Assignments	24	(1)
Completing Your Personal Assignment Sheet	24	(3)
Organizing Your Study Materials	27	(4)
Objectives	27	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	27	(1)
Organization and Productivity	27	(2)
Examining Someone Else's Study Procedure	29	(1)
Identifying the Specifics	29	(1)
Evaluating Another Person's Study Style	29	(1)
Predicting What Will Happen	29	(1)
Making Certain You Have the Necessary Materials	30	(1)
Organizing Your Binder	30	(1)
Answers to True/False Quiz	30	(1)
Creating the Best Study Environment	31	(6)
Objectives	31	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	31	(1)
Reducing Distractions	32	(1)
Examining How Someone Else Studies	33	(1)
Identifying the Specifics	33	(1)
Evaluating the Identified Study Procedures	33	(1)
Predicting What Will Happen	33	(1)
Defending a Position	33	(1)
Doing Several Things at Once	34	(1)
Creating Your Own Study Fortress	34	(1)
What's Right in This Picture?	34	(1)
What's Wrong in This Picture?	34	(1)
Ideas for Reducing Distractions When You Study	35	(1)
Experimenting with Reducing Distractions	35	(1)
Plotting Your Progress	35	(2)
Having a Master Plan	37	(2)
Objectives	37	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	37	(1)
Making Effective Study Procedures a Habit	37	(1)
Putting the Plan into Action	38	(1)
Developing Your Own Master Study Plan	38	(1)
Part 2: Power-Charging Your Studying	39	(28)
Power-Reading	40	(9)
Objectives	40	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	40	(1)
The Reading Skills Hierarchy	40	(3)
Mind-Mapping	43	(1)
Learning a Method for Studying More Efficiently	44	(1)
Learning How to Speed-Read	44	(1)
Practicing Mind-Mapping	45	(1)
Reviewing and Completing the Mind-Mapping Steps	46	(1)
Answering the Title Question	46	(3)
Powering Up Your Reading Comprehension	49	(6)
Objectives	49	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	49	(1)
Digesting Important Information	50	(1)
Confronting a Disaster	51	(1)
Weighing the Options	52	(1)
How the Brain Works When You Read	52	(1)
The ``Chewing-Up Information'' Method	52	(1)
Learning More Steps to the ``Chewing-Up Information'' Method	53	(1)
A Practice Quiz	54	(1)
Examining How You Did on the Quiz	54	(1)
Taking Notes	55	(6)
Objectives	55	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	55	(1)
Coasting in Mental Neutral	56	(2)
Learning How to Take Notes	58	(1)
Mastery: More Practice Note-Taking	58	(1)
Answering Essay Questions	58	(1)
Answering Subtitle Questions	58	(1)
Answering Title Question	59	(1)
Distinguishing Main Ideas from Details	59	(2)
Studying for Tests	61	(6)
Objectives	61	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	61	(1)
Devising a Personalized Test-Taking Method	62	(2)
Learning How to Study Effectively for a Test	64	(1)
A Final Test-Preparation Template	64	(1)
Making Up and Answering Short-Answer Questions	64	(1)
Making Up and Answering True/False Questions	65	(1)
Making Up and Answering Multiple-Choice Questions	65	(1)
Working Back from Multiple-Choice Answers	65	(1)
Jolting Your Memory	65	(1)
Making Powerful Associations	65	(1)
Making Up Tests	66	(1)
Being Relaxed When You Take a Test	66	(1)
Part 3: Thinking Smart	67	(40)
Problem-Solving	68	(5)
Objectives	68	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	68	(1)
Getting to the Core of a Problem	68	(1)
Surrounded by Chaos	69	(1)
DIBS: A Problem-Solving Method	70	(1)
Practicing the DIBS Method	71	(1)
Mastery: Further Practice with DIBS	71	(2)
Goals	73	(6)
Objectives	73	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	73	(1)
Strategic Thinking	74	(2)
Figuring Out How to Get What You Want	76	(1)
Checking Out Feelings	77	(1)
Solving Problems	77	(1)
What Are Your Goals?	77	(1)
A Letter to Myself--My Goals in School	78	(1)
An Experiment with Goal-Setting	78	(1)
Using Goals to Solve Problems	78	(1)
Priorities	79	(4)
Objectives	79	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	79	(1)
Creating a Hierarchy of Importance	80	(1)
Figuring Out the Right Order	80	(1)
Establishing Your Own Priorities	81	(1)
Combining Priorities and Goals	81	(1)
Mastery: More Practice Establishing Priorities	81	(1)
A Plan That Didn't Work	82	(1)
What I Have Learned about Priorities	82	(1)
Strategies	83	(6)
Objectives	83	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	83	(1)
Developing a Plan of Action	84	(1)
Teaching Students How to Develop Strategies	84	(1)
The Motivation Factor	85	(1)
Getting What You Want	86	(1)
Creating Your Own Strategy	86	(1)
Changing Course	86	(1)
More Practice Developing Strategies	87	(1)
A Strategy That Failed	87	(1)
Reviewing What's Smart and What's Not Smart	88	(1)
Cause and Effect	89	(6)
Objectives	89	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	89	(1)
Future Thinking	90	(2)
Considering the Possibilities	92	(1)
Considering the Consequences	92	(1)
The Decision Point	93	(1)
Identifying the Decision Point	93	(1)
Describing a Decision Point in Your Own Life	93	(1)
Practice Figuring Out the Effect (or Consequence)	93	(1)
Practice Figuring Out the Cause	93	(1)
What Would You Do?	94	(1)
Mastery: More Practice Figuring Out Causes	94	(1)
Identifying the Cause and the Effect	94	(1)
Applying Cause and Effect to Your Own Life	94	(1)
What I Have Learned about Cause and Effect	94	(1)
Heading Off Problems	95	(6)
Objectives	95	(1)
Basic Lesson Plan	95	(1)
Providing an Antidote for Flawed Judgment	96	(1)
Trouble Can Ambush You	97	(1)
Making Tough Decisions	97	(1)
Doing the Right Thing	98	(1)
Using Your Head to Avoid Problems	98	(1)
Re-Examining the Thinking-Smart Checklist	99	(1)
Mastery: More Practice Avoiding Problems	99	(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