| Lesson 1: Taking Responsibility for Learning |
- Explain the value of good study habits
- Describe “assuming personal responsibility for learning”
- Identify and explain the three major learning styles
- Identify and explain the three major teaching styles
- Describe the impact of attitude on learning
- Assess a teacher's major learning styles
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| Lesson 2: Teaching Students to Manage Self and Time |
- Identify biblical principles of self and time management
- Describe the teacher's role in helping students manage time
- Identify poor time-management habits
- Contrast compulsory and noncompulsory time obligations
- Define and distinguish the difference between goals and objectives
- Identify organizational and time management skills
- Use time management forms
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| Lesson 3: Listening and Participating in Class |
- Identify biblical principles of listening and speaking
- Describe listening and participating in class
- Contrast listening and hearing
- List factors that affect listening
- Explain the four listening stages
- Explain the five listening levels
- Compare active and passive listening
- Identify four organizational sequences used to present ideas
- Explain critical listening
- State three ways students can prepare for meaningful class participation
- Define the six levels of questions
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| Lesson 4: Taking Notes |
- Describe the benefits of taking notes
- Explain the relationship of listening to notetaking
- Identify and explain preparatory notetaking strategies
- Discuss notetaking skills
- Identify common abbreviations and notetaking symbols
- Identify main ideas, facts, and details
- Define paraphrasing and summarizing
- Illustrate outlining
- Explain “column notetaking”
- State three ways students can prepare for meaningful class participation
- Define the six levels of questions
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| Lesson 5: Reading Textbooks |
- Identify biblical principles related to reading
- Describe the teacher's role in teaching students how to read textbooks
- Identify the parts of a book
- Describe organizational aids used in textbooks
- Explain previewing a textbook, textbook chapter , or a passage in a textbook
- Explain the PQRS reading system
- Identify poor reading habits
- Contrast skimming and scanning
- Explain reading comprehension skills
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| Lesson 6: Preparing for and Taking Tests |
- Identify biblical principles for preparing for and taking tests
- Define test anxiety
- Develop mnemonic memory tools
- Identify effective test-preparation skills
- Describe how students can prepare physically and mentally for tests
- Develop strategies for helping students overcome personal test anxiety
- Describe effective test-taking strategies for different types of test questions
- Describe the teacher's role in helping students improve their test-taking skills
- Increase test scores
- Develop confidence in taking tests
- Identify objective and subjective test qualifiers
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