Devising an Action Plan for Success
Instructor: K. R. Sturgeon

Success in anything requires a goal, an action plan, and passion. This assignment is devised to help you learn about yourself. You'll discover your learning type and strategies for improving your course work. Finally, you'll develop your own goal for the course and consider how best to reach that goal. Well, let's get started . . . .

Catching the Bronco. Let's learn about you. Go to the following two sites and follow the directions below.

http://www.metamath.com/lsweb/dvclearn.htm Click on The Learning Style Survey. Complete the survey and print your results. Highlight your style of learning and the strategies you should use to learn best.

http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html Click on The Learning Style Survey. Complete the survey and print your results. Highlight your style of learning and the strategies you should use to learn best.

http://www.vark-learn.com/  Take the questionnaire, print results or descriptions.  Highlight your style of learning and the strategies you should use to learn best.

 Saddling the Bronco. Visit my home page and browse the Strategies for Success, Comments on Study Skills by DACC Students, and the Study Skills weblinks.

Lastly, Riding the Bronco. Complete the following worksheet. Please recognize that this worksheet is used in all my courses: science as well as math? There may be parts questions which do not apply to your course.

Goal:
 
 

Rationale (why):
 
 

Plan: To help you devise a plan read the following and answer each question. When you have finished type your Action Plan for Success. Be sure to include your Goal and Rationale at the top of your plan. Do not forget to include information from the above surveys.

# How often will you attend class?
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
    1. What will you do in class? Sleep, take notes, highlight textbook, use different color pens, tape record the lectures. . . ? Why?

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    2. Immediately after class or lab what will you do? Meet with others, review notes, re-read sections, do practice problems, ask questions, go to another class or go home? Why?

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    3. How many days a week will you study? Why?

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    4. When will you study; be specific, morning, day, night, after midnight . . . ? Why?

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    5. Where will you study? What will you do to make the environment conducive to study? Get a babysitter, turn off the cell phone, go to library . . . ?

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    6. What will you do when you study?
-Read the book. If so, how? Silently, in a group, aloud, by paragraphs, by section, all at once, with highlighters. . .?

-Review notes. If so, how? Last sections first then new one or only the new?

-Use highlighters. Highlight terms in pink and strategy in green?

-Review the boxed in definitions, properties, etc. in text and put them in your own words?

-Do problems or end of chapter questions. If so, how many? Will you do a few problems from the past night, only the new stuff, do the review test at the end of the chapter?

-Redo the last section, then the new ones?

-Rewrite notes?

-Practice quiz yourself?

-Review the terms at the end of the chapter?

-Work with a group?

-Work with a tutor?

 What you should have when you come to class: A typed action plan (which includes the different strategies you plan to use as well as your course goal and your rationale for that goal). Stapled to it will be both The Learning Style Survey Results (highlighted), and the completed worksheet. Your name (first & last) must appear in the top right hand corner.