Get Strategies to Succeed in Special Education

September 4, 2010

• Steps to Remember

1. Notice! Consciously choose to remember. Be Interested! Establish the need to retain information.
2. Taking a picture in your mind about what you need to learn. Visualize.
3. Connect and form associations between new material and information of ideas, people, places, and things you already know.
4. Repetition is the best way to over-learn and recall information. Translate the information into the results of your own words on retention.

Take Note

• Fundamentals

1. Use a loose leaf notebook divided into sections subject
2. Title and date each sheet of paper when you use a loose leaf
3. In short, a record that is clearly more effective than deep explanation
4. Consolidation of your old lecture notes into a single new set of notes or outline.

• Lecture

1. Avoid distractions by sitting near the front of the class.
2. Concentrating on the main points of what is presented. Record and put them in your own words later.
3. Ask a question on what is not clear to you.
4. To aid retention, review your lecture notes within 24 hours.

While college life is fun, considering that the main reason you are there: to work hard and study for the purpose of expanding choices for your future. You are your own key to success. If you use your resources properly and make use of tips and strategies to compensate for your weaknesses, you may experience a smooth sailing, with the occasional rough waves, during your college experience.

Joan M. Azarva, Ms.ED, an expert on College Learning Specialists, parent of a child’s successful adults with LD / ADD, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education has the experience that spanned three decades with students of all ages. In 1993, however, because the well-documented low success rate of postsecondary students with learning difficulties, Joan decided to focus exclusively on the critical period of high

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