Study Smarts is a DVD/Workbook Program that creates a study skills culture for students and their teachers in grades 5-8. Study Smarts is engaging, entertaining, and educational. It enhances students’ self worth, increases their motivation, and provides the foundation for important study skills.
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About the DVD
Topics covered include the following:
- positive thinking
- motivation
- organization
- remembering
- taking notes
- concentration
- procrastination
- setting goals
- study habits
- improving reading
- increasing vocabulary
- learning styles
- test taking
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The actual running time of the DVD is 2 hours and 45 minutes. Allow for an additional 30 to 45 minutes of pause time for students to write responses to questions in the accompanying workbook as well as to complete self-evaluations. You can show the DVD in its entirety or break it up into identified segments.
Click Windows Media or Quicktime to View Each Clip:
Video Clip 1: Overview (Windows Media) | (Quicktime)
Video Clip 2: Four Types of Students (Windows Media) | (Quicktime)
Video Clip 3: The Fuzz (Windows Media) | (Quicktime)
*Safari users: When viewing the Quicktime format, make sure to stop the video you are viewing before starting another clip.
About the Workbook
The 32-page workbook is used by students as they watch the DVD. Students are given time to write answers to questions in the workbook about what they have just viewed. They also have an opportunity to complete a learning styles evaluation. The completed workbook provides students with a study guide throughout the school year. Students can add notes to the workbook pages as the year progresses.
Use of the workbook enhances students’ attention and helps them retain and apply what they have learned.
Click to View a Workbook Page:
Workbook Page
Live Workshops
We have partnered with schools for over 10 years to provide live 3-hour workshops at their location. Several options for delivery of the workshop are available. Please contact us for further information.
Attention teachers of study skills classes. Use Study Smarts as the introduction to your class and follow up by using Study Skills and Strategies for Students in Upper Elementary and Middle School as your curriculum for the semester or year. This program provides an assessment of students' study skills and strategies and 152 instructional activities.
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