Learning+Strategies

**Learning Strategies** //Students will://

 1. Apply personal time management skills to a variety of learning opportunities; e.g., develop strategies to overcome procrastination

- Complete assignments that are appropriate to your schedule - Manage your time for each task effectively - Limit yourself to certain luxuries in order to focus on a task - Abide learning opportunities to improve skills

2. Relate the value of lifelong learning to personal success and satisfaction

-Have Satisfaction from learning -Relate learning to success

3. Use decision-making skills to select appropriate risk- taking activities for personal growth and empowerment; e.g., increasing freedom means increased responsibility for consequences of choices

-Use decision making to take risks -Activities help in personal growth -Increased freedom = responsibility -Choices means consequences  4. Refine personal goals and priorities relevant to learning and career paths; e.g., investigate education programs including senior high school programs and those related to potential careers

- Set personal goals and strive to achieve them - Choose something you are interested in and try to enhance your learning by using it as a motivational tool - Understand the programs you choose and the courses you take before choosing them  - Keep your ideas about potential careers open before you choose it  __//**Resources: **//__ __//**http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/service_learning/front_service.htm **//__ __//**http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/front_strategies.html **//__ __//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.learningstrategies.com/Home.asp **//__ <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">__//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/strategy.html **//__ <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">__//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.studygs.net/ **//__ <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">__//**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #9900ff; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/time.html **//__ <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">