Orchestrating A Group Study Session

By Franklin Skribbit


A college education is worth every penny, if you put in the work to get something out of it. You can come away with an education and skill set ready to benefit the business world. Not everyone comes away with this education though. Some students treat it like they did High School all those years ago: do what it takes to pass and not a bit more.

For those returning students who have found themselves in this situation, no matter what their collegiate degree in Phoenix, one of the best ways that they can help themselves to keep up with their studies and to learn the material being presented to them is through the proper and frequent use of a group study session. The first step in setting up an effective group study session is to organize the group itself.

First, come to your Phoenix College classes prepared. If there was an assigned reading to accomplish, study it. Understand as much as possible and then come to class ready to listen. Think up a few questions on the more confusing points.

But at the same time, a group should strive to avoid having too many members as the overarching purpose of the group is to get students involved in the learning process outside of class, and getting involved can be difficult if the group is composed of too many members. The most effective group size seems to be around three to six members, but each student and each group can play with this number if they so choose and invite more or less depending on their vision for the group.

This is not to say that there is no place for free writing in the process of writing a paper, because there in fact is. Free writing can be used to great effect as a way for a student to get into the hard to capture writing mood and help them to put their ideas down on paper, however rudimentary those thoughts and ideas may be.

Come back to those initial concepts in 15 minutes and see if you still remember them. Study them again until you understand and come back in 15 minutes to try again. Once you master the 15 minute mark, try again in a couple of hours. Review the concepts you missed and set it aside for more time.

Try it once again before you go to bed and once before after you wake up to make sure that the concepts are solidified. This will teach your long-term memory the concepts, not just the short-term. It's solidifying these concepts in this way that help you remember them in the real world. Come to class prepared every day, take good notes, and learn the concepts in full through repetition in individual study.

A group may wish to orchestrate their group similar to a class setting with each member teaching a specific part of the material being studied. In this way, each member of the class will come prepared to the study session as an "expert" of sorts on a given section of the material and will be able to teach the other members in the group this information.

To keep the material fresh, try yourself on the concepts again in a couple of days. If you do well, test yourself in a couple weeks. Move up onto months to keep the information usable in the future. You'll find yourself graduating from Phoenix colleges with more than just a degree at the end of your school career.




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Orchestrating A Group Study Session

By Franklin Skribbit


A college education is worth every penny, if you put in the work to get something out of it. You can come away with an education and skill set ready to benefit the business world. Not everyone comes away with this education though. Some students treat it like they did High School all those years ago: do what it takes to pass and not a bit more.

For those returning students who have found themselves in this situation, no matter what their collegiate degree in Phoenix, one of the best ways that they can help themselves to keep up with their studies and to learn the material being presented to them is through the proper and frequent use of a group study session. The first step in setting up an effective group study session is to organize the group itself.

First, come to your Phoenix College classes prepared. If there was an assigned reading to accomplish, study it. Understand as much as possible and then come to class ready to listen. Think up a few questions on the more confusing points.

But at the same time, a group should strive to avoid having too many members as the overarching purpose of the group is to get students involved in the learning process outside of class, and getting involved can be difficult if the group is composed of too many members. The most effective group size seems to be around three to six members, but each student and each group can play with this number if they so choose and invite more or less depending on their vision for the group.

This is not to say that there is no place for free writing in the process of writing a paper, because there in fact is. Free writing can be used to great effect as a way for a student to get into the hard to capture writing mood and help them to put their ideas down on paper, however rudimentary those thoughts and ideas may be.

Come back to those initial concepts in 15 minutes and see if you still remember them. Study them again until you understand and come back in 15 minutes to try again. Once you master the 15 minute mark, try again in a couple of hours. Review the concepts you missed and set it aside for more time.

Try it once again before you go to bed and once before after you wake up to make sure that the concepts are solidified. This will teach your long-term memory the concepts, not just the short-term. It's solidifying these concepts in this way that help you remember them in the real world. Come to class prepared every day, take good notes, and learn the concepts in full through repetition in individual study.

A group may wish to orchestrate their group similar to a class setting with each member teaching a specific part of the material being studied. In this way, each member of the class will come prepared to the study session as an "expert" of sorts on a given section of the material and will be able to teach the other members in the group this information.

To keep the material fresh, try yourself on the concepts again in a couple of days. If you do well, test yourself in a couple weeks. Move up onto months to keep the information usable in the future. You'll find yourself graduating from Phoenix colleges with more than just a degree at the end of your school career.




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