Notebook to support Study

  • Maximise your learning
  • Make the most of your time
  • Supports you and empowers you
  • Identify your challenges
  • Develop strategies
  • Facilitate your development
  • Suitable if you're at at college, university, on the job training and or have been away from study for a period of time

Specific skill areas

Ten specific skill areas are covered:

  • Listening and writing skills i.e. note taking
  • Writing skills i.e. assignments, reports
  • Reading
  • Memory
  • Presentation and pronunciation
  • Time management/ organization
  • Communication
  • Documentation
  • Revision and exam skills

Work/placement skills covered include:

  • Project work
  • Briefing
  • Planning
  • Team working
  • Report writing
  • Management of self and others

Testimonials

"The Study skills notebook has a great potential to support students, in both the academic and working environment. It is also unique in that it is able to support students for the duration of the 4 year sandwich courses, where the student has a years placement within the working environment, during their 3rd year."

Kavita Hayton, reviewer (Associate Dean, Central St Martins College, London)

 

"... really helped with my essay planning and taking notes."

Year 2 student

 

"... great help while in my 3rd year work placement, as it gave me a quick reference for all the reports and project work I had to do there."

Year 3 student

Aims of the Notebook

The Study skills Notebook is a tool to help you identify and develop your skills through:

  • assisting you to identify your challenges
  • aiding discussion with others on what strategies you can use, to overcome these challenges, and what support is needed
  • developing strategies to become fit for purpose for your work place

 

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Notebook layout

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Skill area/s to develop
In the first column the learner can add comments on the specific difficulties they are experiencing with a particular skill.
Possible strategies
The second column lists a number of possible coping strategies.
Comments on Strategies
The final column is left blank to enable those that are supporting the learner to discuss the most effective strategies they can use to support the learner.
Notes/Comments
The Notebook also contains blank pages that allow additional information to be added.