Hello fellow scholastic athletes and welcome back to the greatest study strategy there is. This week I will be talking about a strategy that is the most important and useful for me! And this strategy is called CHUNKING THE TASK. It is one of the simplest strategies that I use but I think it is ridiculously effective. All you have to do is break up your assignment, whether it is a reading assignment, studying for a test, or writing a paper, and schedual when you are going to complete each section (CHUNK) that you have created. CHUNKING THE TASK is a strategy that works exceptionally well for me.
This week I used this strategy in my Writing 105 class and in my Anthropology 111 class. I chose to use this strategy in my Writing class because I have my Unit 2 paper due soon and I knew that I didn't want to wait to the last minute and I also wanted to spread out the work so I wouldn't get stressed out. I used this strategy in my Anthropology class because I had some reading assignments to catch up on and breaking up the reading made it so that I would not lose interest. So far I have kept up with my schedule and I think the main reason why is because of my adaptations that I made so that this strategy is more efficient and I will explain them in terms of LAME.
I chose to write my schedule on my computer desktop using the application STICKIES because I knew that that would be a place that I would see it constantly. And because I am a Visual Learner, the bright colors stood out to me and help me to not forget about my daily assignments. I set up my schedule in advance by seeing what topics should divide up or by page number of my essay. My ANT teacher evaluates my knowledge of the readings on the Unit Test and my WRT teacher evaluates my essay by how I follow the essay instructions.
This week I used this strategy in my Writing 105 class and in my Anthropology 111 class. I chose to use this strategy in my Writing class because I have my Unit 2 paper due soon and I knew that I didn't want to wait to the last minute and I also wanted to spread out the work so I wouldn't get stressed out. I used this strategy in my Anthropology class because I had some reading assignments to catch up on and breaking up the reading made it so that I would not lose interest. So far I have kept up with my schedule and I think the main reason why is because of my adaptations that I made so that this strategy is more efficient and I will explain them in terms of LAME.
I chose to write my schedule on my computer desktop using the application STICKIES because I knew that that would be a place that I would see it constantly. And because I am a Visual Learner, the bright colors stood out to me and help me to not forget about my daily assignments. I set up my schedule in advance by seeing what topics should divide up or by page number of my essay. My ANT teacher evaluates my knowledge of the readings on the Unit Test and my WRT teacher evaluates my essay by how I follow the essay instructions.
Nice post. I really like how the colors coordinate. Are you using any sort of weekly or daily planner on top of the dates on your computer? I think this would be really helpful edition to your strategy to keep on to of your work.
ReplyDeleteI do but it is not on my computer, I use my iPhone as a weekly planner (shown in a previous post about my D's Do and Due calendar).
ReplyDeleteI use my phone as my weekly planner too and my iPad. There are amazing apps for it if you want any recommendations let me know. And also agreeing with Sam, great post nice color coordination.
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