Study Skills: Being Prepared

One of our growing programs here at Mindworks focuses on helping middle and high schoolers build the essential study and organizational skills they need to succeed now and in the future. The popularity of this program, and its partner program at Monocacy Neurodevelopmental Center, is due to the lack of this type of instruction in public and private schools.

Middle schools, high schools, and even some colleges, provide students with an academic planner or agenda and simply expect students to use them without providing any instruction to the students. This is absolutely mind-boggling to me. Just as adults find it difficult to embark on a fitness program without proper instruction, students find it difficult to begin using good study skills or to build a successful time management system.

One obstacle students encounter when building study skills is not knowing what it takes to be prepared. What supplies should a student have? A list of what supplies to have, however, isn't enough for most students. A list is just a list. Knowing why each supply is important and how each supply can help then achieve more and do better is crucial. Gearfire provides just such a list, with the all important reasoning for each item's inclusion.

To read the list or to share it with the students in your life, click here for Gearfire's The School Supplies List You NEED to Have.