Get Organized, Study and Succeed in Life

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Get Organized, Study and Succeed in Life

• Alabama State Department of Education

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Organization Skills

• Schedule your time wisely.
• Use a calendar to record tests for the week each
  Monday.
• Write down your assignments daily.
• Use colored folders for each subject. Example
  blue - math yellow - history
• red - english orange -
  science

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Organization Skills

• Create a Study Buddy list.
• Buy a backpack with pockets and put items in the
  same place all the time.
• Keep books in your desk for the class youre in.
  Keep books in your bag that you dont need.

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Organization Skills

• Bring your tools to school every day. You
  cant work without your tools.
• Carpenter Doctor Student
• hammer stethoscope paper
• nails thermometer pencil/pen
• saw note pad books
• chalk line pen folders

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Study Skills

• Attendance - Come to school everyday ready to do
  your best.
• Timing - Study harder on Monday, Tuesday and
  Wednesday. The end of the week will be easier.
• Effort - Give it all youve got the first three
  weeks of the grading period. Start off with
  great grades!

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Study Skills

• Your time - Socialize less during the week and
  more on the weekends.
• Study time - Study 10 minutes for every grade
  youve completed.
• example 3rd grade 30 minutes each day
• 10th grade 100 minutes each day
• This doesnt include study time for tests!

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Study Skills

• Environment - Dont study in a place that cues
  you to do something other than study.
• Sleep - Get 7 to 8 hours of sleep and be
  consistent!
• Mnemonics - Memory-Aiding Device
• Using letters in a list to make a new word

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Mnemonics

• To remember the order of the planets from the
  sun My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine
  Pies. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
  Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
• To remember the classification of living things
  Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Soft Velvet.
  Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus,
  Species, Variety
• To remember the great lakes HOMES
• Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior

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Life Skills

• Initiative
• Integrity
• Organization
• Patience
• Perseverance
• Pride
• Problem Solving
• Responsibility
• Sense of Humor

• Caring
• Common Sense
• Cooperation
• Courage
• Curiosity
• Effort
• Flexibility
• Friendship

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Caring

• To feel and show concern for others
• Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but
  their echoes are truly endless. -- Mother Teresa

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Common Sense

• To use good judgement.
• Common sense is the knack of seeing things as
  they are, and doing things as they ought to be
  done. Common sense is instinct and enough of it
  is genius. --Josh Billings

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Cooperation

• To work together toward a common goal or purpose.
• If everyone is moving forward together, then the
  success takes care of itself. -- Henry Ford

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Courage

• To act according to ones belief.
• Never let the fear of striking out get in your
  way. -- Babe Ruth

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Curiosity

• A desire to investigate and seek understanding.
• Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
  -- Helen Keller

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Effort

• To do your best.
• Opportunities are usually disguised as hard
  work, so most people dont recognize them. --
  Ann Landers

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Flexibility

• To be willing to alter plans when necessary. You
  are flexible when you are agreeable.
• Truly nothing is to be expected but the
  unexpected. -- Alice James

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Friendship

• To make and keep a friend through mutual trust
  and caring.
• Destroy your enemy by making friends with him.
  -- Abraham Lincoln

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Initiative

• To do something because it needs to be done.
• Never trouble another for what you can do
  yourself. -- Thomas Jefferson

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Integrity

• To act according to a sense of whats right and
  wrong.
• When in doubt, tell the truth. -- Mark Twain

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Organization

• To plan, arrange, and implement in an orderly
  way.
• How we spend our day is, of course, how we spend
  our lives.

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Patience

• To wait calmly for someone or something.
• When you get to the end of your rope - tie a
  knot and hang on! -- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Perseverance

• To keep at it.
• Youre never a loser until you quit trying. --
  Mike Ditka

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Pride

• Satisfaction from doing your personal best.
• You can be pleased with nothing when you are not
  pleased with yourself. -- Lady Mary Wortley
  Montague

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Problem Solving

• To create solutions in difficult situations and
  everyday problems.
• Think about what you can do with what there is.
  -- Ernest Hemingway

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Responsibility

• To respond when appropriate, to be accountable
  for your actions.
• Few things help an individual more than to place
  responsibility upon him and to let him know that
  you trust him. -- Booker T. Washington

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Sense of Humor

• To laugh and be playful without harming others.
• You grow up the day you have your first real
  laugh at yourself. -- Edith Barrymore