Teach good study habits to students with this K-3 all-school study skills program.

Each year students receive a six-lesson program that focuses on previously learned study skills and teaches new developmentally appropriate study-skills strategies. Each grade level relates an animal’s behavior to the study skills they need to develop in order to succeed in school. First-graders remember the lessons taught by Paul Revere Penguin and look forward to learning about GWC Checking Chipmunk in second grade. Each animal is named for a well-known historical figure whose success relates to the study skills being taught. The four manuals included in the set are:

Quiet Earhart Owl–Kindergarten: Emphasizes listening, paying attention, working quietly, and completing work.

Paying Attention P. Revere Penguin–Grade 1: Emphasizes working quietly, staying on task, trying, listenin

GWC Checking Chipmunk–Grade 2: Emphasizes goal setting, setting priorities, checking work, and asking questions.

Hard-Working Helen K. Honeybee–Grade 3: Emphasizes completing tasks on time, following directions, paying attention, and doing one’s best.

The set includes a set of two audio CDs of the stories.

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ASCA STANDARDS FOR NATURE OF STUDY SKILLS

 

ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT

 

Standard A:     Students will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span.

• A:A1                Improve Academic Self-concept
• A:A1.1             Articulate feelings of competence and confidence as learners
• A:A1.2             Display a positive interest in learning
• A:A1.3             Take pride in work and achievement
• A:A1.4             Accept mistakes as essential to the learning process
• A:A1.5             Identify attitudes and behaviors that lead to successful learning

• A:A2                Acquire Skills for Improving Learning
• A:A2.1             Apply time-management and task-management skills
• A:A2.2             Demonstrate how effort and persistence positively affect learning
• A:A2.3             Use communications skills to know when and how to ask for help when needed
• A:A2.4            Apply knowledge and learning styles to positively influence school performance

• A:A3                Achieve School Success
• A:A3.1             Take responsibility for their actions
• A:A3.2             Demonstrate the ability to work independently, as well as the ability to work cooperatively with other students
• A:A3.3             Develop a broad range of interests and abilities
• A:A3.4             Demonstrate dependability, productivity and initiative
• A:A3.5             Share knowledge

Standard B:     Students will complete school with the academic preparation essential to choose from a wide range of substantial post- secondary options, including college.

• A:B1                Improve Learning
• A:B1.1             Demonstrate the motivation to achieve individual potential
• A:B1.3             Apply the study skills necessary for academic success at each level
• A:B1.4             Seek information and support from faculty, staff, family and peers
• A:B1.7             Become a self-directed and independent learner

• A:B2                Plan To Achieve Goals
• A:B2.6             Understand the relationship between classroom performance and success in school

Personal/Social Development

 

Standard A:     Students will acquire the knowledge, attitudes and interpersonal skills to help them understand and respect self and others.

• PS:A1              Acquire Self-Knowledge
• PS:A1.1           Develop positive attitudes toward self as a unique and worthy person
• PS:A1.2           Identify values, attitudes and beliefs
• PS:A1.3           Learn the goal-setting process
• PS:A1.4           Understand change is a part of growth
• PS:A1.6           Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate behavior
• PS:A1.9           Demonstrate cooperative behavior in groups

• PS:A2              Acquire Interpersonal Skills
• PS:A2.1           Recognize that everyone has rights and responsibilities
• PS:A2.6           Use effective communications skills
• PS:A2.7           Know that communication involves speaking, listening and  nonverbal behavior

Standard B:     Students will make decisions, set goals and take necessary action to achieve goals.

• PS:B1              Self-Knowledge Application
• PS:B1.2           Understand consequences of decisions and choices
• PS:B1.11         Use persistence and perseverance in acquiring knowledge and skills
• PS:B1.12         Develop an action plan to set and achieve realistic goals

 

American School Counselor Association (2004). ASCA National Standards for Students. Alexandria, VA: Copyright 2004 by the American School Counselor Association</p>

 

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