Education Strategies

The key to becoming an effective student is learning how to study smarter, not harder. This becomes more and more true as you advance in your education. An hour or two of studying a day is usually sufficient to make it through high school with satisfactory grades, but when college arrives, there aren't enough hours in the day to get all your studying in if you don't know how to study smarter. While some students are able to breeze through school with minimal effort, this is the exception. The vast majority of successful students achieve their success by developing and applying effective study habits. The following are the top 10 study habits employed by highly successful students. So if you want to become a successful student, don't get discouraged, don't give up, just work to develop each of the study habits below and you'll see your grades go up, your knowledge increase, and your ability to learn and assimilate information improve. 1. Don't attempt to c...

1. Set Short-Term and Long-Term Goals Goal setting is a skill that develops over time. In fact, it can even be described as an art. To become a successful goal setter, you’ll need to get to know your own work habits and motivators. Setting unrealistic goals gets discouraging quickly. Instead, set realistic long-term goals and work backwards from those to set smaller short-term goals to act as stepping stones. Then, make a plan to achieve these goals. Break your work down into manageable chunks and find a way to hold yourself accountable. Sometimes it can even help to coordinate with a group of peers so that you can help to hold one another accountable too. 2. Master Time Management In order to optimise your performance across multiple aspects of your life, you’ll need to develop strong time management skills. This means making and sticking to study schedules , developing systems of organisation that work well for you, and learning the art of multitasking. 3. Select a Balanc...

Focus! And don’t multi-task Our brains are impressive machines, but they can’t handle everything at once. There is simply too much going on in our sensory environment for us to digest. To be effective, we need to direct our attention to just one or two tasks at a time. That generally means no background music – it won’t help you learn. Don’t be tempted to multi-task while you learn. When you do, your brain is actually trying its hardest to switch rapidly between tasks. But whenever you get distracted and switch focus, it takes minutes to settle back into the groove of studying . Minimise your distractions and focus your attention on the task at hand. Sleep well, learn well Learning isn’t easy, and being able to focus is important for digesting new information and understanding concepts. When you get a good night’s sleep, you feel fresh and attentive the next day. Sleep is also critical for what happened the previous day. Extensive work in both animals and humans...

T he classroom is the original cultivator of true learning and the green house that nurtures talent and creativity. The dynamics between a teacher and students define the essence of a classroom. A great teacher can transform the brick-and-mortar confinement and take students on a journey of pure learning, responding to their doubts and instilling an environment of curiosity and interactivity. Hence, to optimize the learning experience, schools and colleges in India are vying to embrace innovative methods, installing the latest educational technology and encouraging teachers to be more creative than ever. Here’s a glimpse of some of the innovative techniques that teachers are trying out to make learning effective, engaging, and fun. Audio-visual (AV) supplements Many educational institutions in India have AV-equipped classrooms or venues to boost students’ learning and understanding. Teachers explain difficult subject like Physics/Maths/Chemistry through graphical representatio...

Strategic plans are tools that many organizations use to keep themselves successful and on track. A strategic plan is a roadmap for success. You can use the same sort of plan to establish a route to academic success in high school or college. The plan may involve a strategy for achieving success in a single year of high school or for your entire educational experience . Ready to get started? Most basic strategic plans contain these five elements: Mission Statement Goals Strategy or Methods Objectives Evaluation and Review 1. Create a Mission Statement  You will kick off your roadmap for success by determining your overall mission for the year (or four years) of education. Your dreams will be put into words in a written statement called a  mission statement . You need to decide ahead of time what you'd like to accomplish, then write a paragraph to define this goal. This statement can be a little vague, but that'...

If you have a creative bent of mind, an artistic hand, and can handle a decent amount of math and geometry, then a career inarchitecture is just perfect for you! Architecture is a creative and fulfilling profession that requires a combination of innovative thinking, practical skills, and technological expertise. There is a growing need for qualified architects all around the globe who can contribute the environment by creating sustainable, green buildings as well as conserving the architectural heritage. A degree in architecture earned in India will give you the much-needed international perspective, an exposure to global trends and hands-on training to make a real difference in the industry. So, let’s take you step-by-step. Most of the Architecture colleges in India offer education in Architecture at an undergraduate level and students with Mathematics at +2 levels are preferred. Preparation for an All India Entrance Exam can be started soon after 10th Class. Top courses i...

The purpose of this article is to put forward some ideas to help with the teaching of addition. Combining groups of physical objects : for many students , this is their most basic experience of adding up. This process normally involves collecting two sets of objects, then counting how many objects there are in total. (For example, by building two towers of cubes, and then counting up every single block.) For many, this method can be too involved, particularly for those students who present attention deficit disorder. If the child cannot hold their attention for the whole of the activity, blocks will be put awry, towers will end up with additional blocks, blocks will get mixed up, and at the end, the wrong answer is arrived at. The length of the process means that if your child does not master the concept quickly, they are not likely to make progress at all. In addition, it is difficult to extend this process into a calculation that can be approached mentally: for example, try to im...