Learning Tasks for Tuesday, May 6

Essential Question:  How can I use test-taking strategies to become a successful test-taker?

Objectives: I can...

-identify test-taking strategies that work for me.

-reflect on my experiences as a freshman at LEC.
-design and create a guide to teaching strategies used at LEC.

1.  Test-Taking Skills

Using the Tic-Tac-Toe sheet, select an activity to work on.  Remember that you must have seven total:  four across/down/diagonal and another three that intersect.  Select the activities that will benefit you most for exams!

3.  Incoming Freshman Handbook

We’re quickly approaching the end of freshman year, and you can now reflect on what it takes to “survive and thrive” at LEC.  All the challenges you have faced this year have made you experts!  So, how can you use this accumulation of knowledge?  Of course you will use it to your benefit in upcoming years, but why not share your knowledge with incoming LEC freshman?  As a class, we will compile your experiences and advice into a survival guide for next year’s freshman.  The final product will include a variety of pictures, rankings, lists, and rules that will help future Cobras navigate their first year at LEC.

You may type them in a Google doc (and share with me) or NEATLY write them.  

Today you will explain motivation.  Remember, new students are unsure how to adapt to the coursework here at LEC - you have to explain motivation techniques to them. Soooo, what advice do you have for staying motivated? You will create:

• A checklist with 3-5 do's and 3-5 don'ts of motivatation
• A list of time management strategies
• A comic strip showing at least two potential roadblocks to being motivated and how you can overcome them.