By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. The following is a complete guide to learning styles. I have written a lot about learning styles on this blog, and this guide serves as a central hub to direct you to the specific learning style resources that youâre looking for. …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Youâre going to hate a class. At some point in your school life, youâre going to hate a class for some reason or another. Maybe itâs the teacher, or maybe itâs the subject matter. Maybe itâs too hard, or maybe itâs …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Knowing how to figure things out is one of the most valuable skills you can have as a student. (And also as a working professional and human, really.) The ability to figure things out is called resourcefulness. Resourcefulness is a superpower. …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. This post will teach you everything you need to know about how to do a student self-assessment. To support you in this process, I have made a free Student Self-Assessment Checklist that you can download and use over and over again. …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. In high school, I learned how to hem my own pants (a handy skill considering Iâm 5â2â). In fact, I learned many life skills outside basic content areas, skills that smoothed my transition to being a functional adult. Some of these …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Various sources suggest that the average person makes around 35,000 decisions a day. Thatâs bananas. While the majority of our daily decisions are minor, such as choosing what to wear or what to eat, we occasionally face bigger decisions that have …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Bad grades donât just come out of nowhere for no good reason. Sure, you might fail a test once in a while because of extenuating circumstances, but chronically poor grades are a symptom of something bigger. In other words, chronically bad …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Youâre sitting in class, paying attention (or not), and all of a sudden you have no idea what the teacher is saying. Or youâre doing your homework at home, and it hits you that youâre totally confused about the material. It …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. The internet is full of student tips that claim you can cut your study time in half, get an A on your essay without trying, and hack your way through school via some secret portal that no one knows about. This …
By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. Whether youâre a student or a working professional, group projects, group discussions and meetings can be an effective way to collaborate and make decisions. But working with others can also be challenging. Group work can be challenging because itâs difficult to …