Sunday, October 23, 2011

sweetTART

Whats up readers, I'm back this week with another post about a learning strategy that I tried out this past week. This week was all about reading! And the Strategy that I tried out this week is called TART. TART is a strategy that helps you comprehend the reading and also helps you prepare for the test you may have on the reading. You are probably asking yourself, "what does TART stand for?" Well that is a great Question. TART stands for:
T: TERMS A: ATTEND R: READ T: TEST

For the TERMS section, you go through your reading and you look through your reading and you read the bold terms and their definitions. For the ATTEND section, you go to your class and take notes and listen for those words you read earlier. After that, you READ the chapter for the information that you just covered. And lastly you TEST yourself by creating test questions from the reading.

I used this strategy for my AST 101 class and for my ANT 111 class. I chose this strategy for these classes because the two classes are mostly lecture focused and that is what TART is the most helpful for. You use the lecture as a preview for what you are going to read later and that helps you create better test questions to study from.

LAME
I am a visual learner so this strategy was great for me because it is the most effective for Visual and Kinesthetic learners. The order that this strategy goes in is great for me because I first looked in the textbooks to see the key words that I need to know. Then I went to class and I got to see what topics that are important to the professor. After that you read the chapter and you get all of the information and while you are reading you focus more on the topics that were discuses in class because you know that those are the topics that are most likely going to be the most important on the test. And finally you use all of that information to test yourself. My AST 101 class and my ANT 111 class test me on my knowledge of the text as well as what he goes over in class so this strategy works perfect in these classes.

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3 comments:

  1. Nice post. I really liked how you used color to organize your LAME section, but I think you could use some more info about why you chose the strategy you did. In other words it would be nice to see some discussion about why you picked this strategy for these specific classes

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  2. Well I chose this strategy for these classes because I heard that TART works well for lecture focused classes.

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  3. That is exactly why I used TART as well Jimmy. I really liked your explanation of LAME. Did you skip the part where you abbreviate key terms because you did not have any? Or because you did not think that it would help you.

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