Category: Education

Tips for Effective Note Taking

Don’t know how to take good notes? Want to learn how to take better notes?   Crash Course, the maker of high quality videos for educators and students has a short video, just for you.

Taking Notes: Crash Course Study Skills #1

Other videos in this series are:

“Reading Assignments: Crash Course Study Skills #2” – https://youtu.be/WAIUkjsZ5xQ

“Memory: Crash Course Study Skills #3” – https://youtu.be/SZbdK9e9bxs

 
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Memory Strategies

Do you struggle with remembering things or with comprehending effectively what you try to remember?  Click on the image below to open this memory strategies resource.

The resource outlines suggestions and strategies for improve your memory and increase your efficiency in learning material. At the end of the resource is a short list of websites of additional information.

 

Front page of document discussing memory strategies

The original resource upon which this is based, courtesy Hartford Community College, Bel Air, MD.  URL list updated 2019-02-13

Department of Education Releases New Transition Guide

The U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services,  has just released a new guide to assist students with disabilities transition from high school to postsecondary education and/or employment.

The guide, “A Transition Guide to Postsecondary Education and Employment for Students and Youth with Disabilities,” (January, 2017), is available at:
https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/transition/products/postsecondary-transition-guide-2017.pdf