Suggest students study an hour a night Monday through Friday as opposed to five hours in a row over the weekends, to help your students create good study strategies and prepare them for success in your course.
- Students might not realize that working for large blocks of time on an assignment isn’t as helpful as consistent practice.
- It can be hard for students to make this adjustment when they’ve been successful in previous grade levels studying sporadically in large blocks of time.
- This is often a problem when high school students transition to college.
- Share this document with students about successfully transitioning from college to high school to help them better understand: http://www.smu.edu/Provost/ALEC/NeatStuffforNewStudents/HowIsCollegeDif…