Studying and Learning

RULES OF CLASS ATTENDANCE Throughout the world people congregate at various places to be taught by sages, professors, facilitators, and mentors. The wide range of things that can be learnt fuel the growth and proliferation of people meeting to share ideas and learn. The only way that such gathering can achieve the purpose for which it was created is to obey and strictly follow some certain laid down rules. As the society becomes more and more sophisticated, the need for rules and regulations would keep coming to the fore and for a congregation of people to be taught and learn, rules must be obeyed to get maximum benefit from such gatherings. Classes throughout the world have their unique format, settings and aims but some rules as to its organization and running are quite universal. The order must be upheld All classes must be orderly. Students and teachers alike must endeavor to comport themselves like people who are on a mission to achieve something. The chairs or sett...

RULES OF DOING ASSIGNMENTS In schools all over the world, it is the fundamental duty of teachers to give students assignments to reinforce their understanding of the key concepts in a subject area. A lot of students have been made to go through the scrutinizing eye of assignments to ensure that skills and knowledge gained become ingrained. These assignments usually take different formats for different education settings but a set of rules form the common base upon which most assignments regardless of their settings and special make-up rests. Some of these rules include: Take down questions correctly All assignments are usually given orally or in written formats. The format used notwithstanding, all questions and tasks given must be noted correctly. If the question is given orally, students must make the conscious and deliberate effort of putting down the dictated question in writing. When writing questions that are dictated, students must ensure that it is the exact me...

RULES OF DOING GROUP PROJECTS The complexity of things can only get deeper and more convoluted as time passes on. Knowledge will keep increasing at an exponential rate and the amount of information that must be known and kept at the fingertip will keep rising. This is true and this reality is the reason why teamwork has become the bedrock of any tangible achievement in the world today. Individualism has reduced to the barest minimum for all the right reasons and failure to realize this always leads to painful consequences. In the world of learning, people come together to carry out inquisitive and exploratory activities with the view of getting satisfactory answers to some of the most troubling questions and issues in life. In all areas of possible learning and development, the burden of fact-finding and fact usage has reached epic proportions and thus the need to bring together groups of people and give them the  mandate to work together to get solutions and answers t...

RULES OF PREPARING FOR CLASS PRESENTATIONS The classroom is an epitome of mentor-ship and talent building. It has moulded the destiny and lives of billions of people. In the classroom, the part of the human psyche that is capable of doing the extraordinary is alerted, piqued and brought to the fore. The enormous potential of the classroom to reveal the strength and weakness of students is staggering. This brings no surprise that the classroom is revered like the shrine and given its full due in respect and comportment. A lot of activities take place in a classroom and one of these is the most revered class presentation. Class presentation is a very interesting activity that can be both exciting and scary. The following points elucidate some rules that must be followed to ensure a successful and fraud free class presentation. Get the topic the way it is got When class presentations are to be made, each classroom has its unique way it generates topics of interest and titles ...

Studying Methods (SQ3R and the 4Rs) There are several methods of studying but some of the most common methods are: the SQ3R, SQ4R, PQ4R and OK4R. OK4R O stands for Overview K stands for Key Ideas 4R stands for Read, Recall, Reflect and Review. Overview : The Preface, Abstract, Introduction and Table of Content are thoroughly read to have a good idea about what the material to be studied is all about. Key ideas : The material to be studied is browsed through to get a little more detail about the central focus of each part of the text by looking closely at first paragraphs, conclusions and diagrams. Read : The material or text is then thoroughly read from the beginning to the end of it. Recall : The book is then closed and effort is made to remember all the key points that were addressed in the book. This has been proven to help reinforce understanding and retention. Reflect : Here, the content of the material is compared to things that have been experienced or...

THE STUDY PUSH A lot of reasons can be given for studying but very few people are committed to studying. If there were any other way to get things done without studying, majority of the human race would opt for it. The only reason why it seems like everyone studies at some point or the other is the inevitability of studying. There is no escape route, we all must study. A lot of factors give studying its inevitability and they can be termed study’s push factors. The study push gives meaning to the necessary and mandatory nature of studying. It calls to bear all the arsenals in the world of studying that makes it impossible to escape from it. The study push is reminiscent of a lot of friendly and not too friendly terms that is associated with the word, push. Plenty of the time and effort expended in studying is the result of study’s push and relentless demands. The study push may not be too friendly and sweet but it is the one push that sends the world into the spiral of unprecede...

The Master Critic of the Thinker The world today is affected by several things and transformed by several phenomena. At the core of these transformations are thinkers. People think on a daily basis. Professionals, parents, students, leaders and in fact every human being thinks. But the type of thinking considered by this expository is not the general ability to ruminate over various facts, information and issues to decide the next course of action but the rigorous and time consuming process of trying to get answers to pertinent and troubling “why” questions and problems. The thinker described here is one who engages the mind and intellect in a very profound way with the aim of finding solutions and answers to various issues. This type of thinking is never easy. It demands from the body considerable amount of “Nerve force” or nervous energy. The thinker navigates through waves of facts, beliefs, evidences and even the unknown to arrive at a conclusion. The only pitfall of the t...