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Attend class and participate.
Attendance, per se,
is not part of your grade, but attending class is essential for you to do
well. You are responsible for getting the information you missed
regardless of the reason.
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Read the text before coming to class.
When I lecture, I assume that
you’ve done the reading and have a basic understanding of the material. If
you haven’t done the reading, you will probably be lost during the
lecture. If you read the chapter first, you'll have a better understanding
of what I'm talking about, and the questions that you ask will be more
productive. Why ask a question that the book answers? And, after having
read the chapter, if there is something in there that you don't
understand, you'll be able to ask about it in class. If you haven't read
the chapter, how will you know to ask?
- Visit the
website for your textbook.
Take the online quizzes for practice,
check out the simulations and demos, use the flashcards, etc.
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Read over your notes every day.
Doing so will
eliminate the "need to cram." Have you noticed
that it’s hard for you to forget something that you see every day?
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Put time and energy
into the course.
For a 100 or 200 level course, it is expected that
for every 1 hour you spend in class, you will spend a minimum of 2 hours
outside of class in order to do okay in the course. For a class that meets
about 5 hours a week, you need to spend an additional 10 hours on the course.
- Check out these websites for helpful study
skills information:
These sites contain information on test-taking, time management,
note-taking (both in class and from the text), etc.
Study
Strategies from Univ of Minnesota - Duluth
Academic
Success Center from George Washington University
Establishing
Good Study Habits from Edinboro University
How-to-Study.com
Study
Skills from the Learning Network
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Get with some other students and study together.
Helping someone else understand
something is an excellent way to learn anything. And if you get lost
somewhere along the way, it's helpful to have some folks to go to who can
help you out.
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Like any class, the more you put into it, the more
you will get out of it.
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