Managing Your Learning: How to Navigate Your Studies

By Henry Ogoi

Most students find that their greatest challenge in adjusting to college life and to succeeding in the classroom is in managing their time effectively. This is especially true for college students who often work long hours. Adult students have to shoulder family and home responsibilities. These students have little or no effective study skills on how to manage their studies. Study skills are strategies and techniques that enables you to make the most efficient and effective use of your time, resources and academic potential to achieve your desired results. Developing and enhancing your study skills can help you to make a more efficient of your study time, make your learning easier and help retain what you have learned longer and feel the work and effort involved is worthwhile.

Anyone who is involved in learning can benefit from developing his or her study skills. Regardless of whether you are preparing for college, or have already started on a course of study, you can always improve your ability to learn, retain, and retrieve information.

There is no one best way to learn for everyone. Some people learn their best by doing; others prefer to learn by listening or reading. Some learn best in group situations, while others learn best alone. The secret is to find the methods and techniques that work for you to achieve your ultimate goal(s). The methods and techniques suggested in this book are deliberately chosen to cover a wide variety of learning styles and preferences. You can build on techniques that support and improve your preferred styles by experimenting and adapting them. But remember that, whatever stage of learning you are at, it is always useful to practice learning in a variety of ways, experimenting with different styles of learning. This book will equip you with the techniques and skills to navigate your studies at whatever level of your learning.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Henry Ogoi
• Release date: Apr 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201780869

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INTRODUCTION

Most students find that their greatest challenge in adjusting to college life and to succeeding in the classroom is in managing their time effectively. This is especially true for college students who often work long hours. Adult students have to shoulder family and home responsibilities. These students have little or no effective study skills on how to manage their studies. Study skills are strategies and techniques that enables you to make the most efficient and effective use of your time, resources and academic potential to achieve your desired results. Developing and enhancing your study skills can help you to make a more efficient of your study time, make your learning easier and help retain what you have learned longer and feel the work and effort involved is worthwhile.

Anyone who is involved in learning can benefit from developing his or her study skills. Regardless of whether you are preparing for college, or have already started on a course of study, you can always improve your ability to learn, retain, and retrieve information.

There is no one best way to learn for everyone. Some people learn their best by doing; others prefer to learn by listening or reading. Some learn best in group situations, while others learn best alone. The secret is to find the methods and techniques that work for you to achieve your ultimate goal(s). The methods and techniques suggested in this book are deliberately chosen to cover a wide variety of learning styles and preferences. You can build on techniques that support and improve your preferred styles by experimenting and adapting them. But remember that, whatever stage of learning you are at, it is always useful to practice learning in a variety of ways, experimenting with different styles of learning. This book will equip you with the techniques and skills to navigate your studies at whatever level of your learning.

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CHAPTER ONE

MOTIVATION, GOAL SETTING AND TIME MANAGEMENT

What is your motivation for returning to school?

Learning objectives: To state the goals you want to achieve by undertaking this particular course.

What are your reasons and motivations for returning to learning?

Whatever your reasons, this course is clearly a return to learning for you. You are therefore more than likely already very committed to doing the course, and are aware of the time, energy and effort you will need to put into it if you are to achieve your target results.  Therefore, it is important to understand how you can turn your wish to achieve real results. Perhaps more importantly, you need to know how you can sustain your efforts, even during those times when you would much rather be doing something else.

Note: Your goals will be the driving force that will transform your intentions or motivations into the actions and behaviors that achieve these goals.

Following any course of study is not always an easy task. In fact, there may well be times when you wonder what possessed you to start in the first place. You may even feel like walking away from it all. But if you have in place good coping mechanisms and study behaviors, they will see you through the rough times until your enthusiasm returns.

This study guide will make it easier for you to succeed in completing the course as well as enjoy the learning process. It introduces you to a range of tips and methods geared toward developing your skills, techniques and strategies to make better use of your time, source, select and critically evaluate information relevant to your study, and apply what you have learned in a variety of ways and contexts. This study guide will also enable you to critically evaluate the sources in light of all the information you have and make a balanced or informed judgment/argument.

A strong motivation is the first most important step on the road to success. By actively developing good study skills and learning strategies, you will keep your motivation high and achieve your goals much more easily and more efficiently.

Learning objectives: See the links between positive thinking and success. Develop and keep up a positive attitude by following a task or goal reward achievement system. Distinguish between long-term, medium-term, and short-term goals, and apply these in a practical way.

Achieve Your Goals: Link between Positive Thinking and Success

Get an attitude: success is not just about hard work; it is also about your attitude to your studies and believe in your ability to succeed.

Believing in you is the first step in maintaining your commitment and effort. Thinking positively increases your confidence, makes studying easier, and increases your chances of success. Believe in yourself, and in your ability to achieve your goals. No one is forcing you yourself

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