1. SI Leader Training #4 Helping Students Get Ready for Finals
November 18, 2016
1:00-4:00 pm
Forum-101
MAKE-UP

2. You are completing this because you were unable to attend our in-person SI Leader Training #4 on in Forum-101.
The due date for this make-up training is:
Monday, November 21 by 5:00 PM.
You can give it to Mrs. Pierce in person, give it to the SI Assistant, put it in the
turn-in box that we have for all papers, OR
it to Mrs. Pierce as an attachment.
Answer ALL questions (#1-21), using your own lined paper!
All questions are identified by neon green, underlined font.

3. Question 1: What words come to mind when you think of final exams
Question 1: What words come to mind when you think of final exams? List at least 10 single words.

4. Status of Observations
I’m not making good progress.
Will do my best to get to you
If you REALLY want me to come,
please me, and I will put your
session at the top of my list.
I have really enjoyed the sessions I’ve
been able to fit in.
I will also be sending out an evaluation form to your SI professor
and will forward a copy of it to you if I am given permission to share
it.

5. SI Leader Evaluation by Instructor FORM

6. End-of-Semester SI Student Surveys
Will be given to ALL students in your SI class
Pick up copies in SI area before November 28
Administer week of Nov 28-Dec 2
Return to SI Assistant on Dec 5
Considering trying to do
them online through a
website called Survey
Monkey—I’ll send out link.

7. This is our last SI Leader Training for Fall 2016!

8. SI Timeline for Remainder of Fall 2016 and into Spring 2017
Dates to Remember:
November 24 and 25--Thanksgiving Holiday (Enjoy and relax!)
November 28-December 2—Administer End-of-Semester Student Survey to all students in your SI classes
December 1—Season of Light show at planetarium, 7 pm (optional!)
December 2—Last day of SI sessions
December 3-10—Final exams
January 13—SI Leader Training #1 (time/place TBA)
January 14--Spring 2017 semester begins

9. What is the most important tool to get ready for Finals Week??
Your 5-day Study plan….What!? you don’t have one???
Don’t worry…We will help you!!

10. Major Study Tool
The 5-Day Study Plan

11. YOU WILL NEED ONE OF THESE (found in your handouts)
You can also pick up copies of this in our SI area on one of the shelves.

12. Set a timeline just like this one!
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
DAY 1
DAY 2
DAY 3
DAY 4
DAY 5
Days 1 - 4
Review textbook chapters and lecture notes
(divided up evenly over 4 days)
Compile a summary of information covered that day
Day 5
Spend reviewing the summaries created on Days 1 - 4

13. Example of How Your Study Plan Might Look
Time
Day of Week
Monday
DAY ONE
Tuesday
DAY TWO
Wednesday
DAY THREE
Thursday
DAY FOUR
Friday
DAY FIVE
9-10 AM
Write summary notes for Ch. 1-3
Write summary notes for Ch. 7-8
Review Summary
10-11 AM
Summarize lecture notes from Jan 24-Feb 18
Summarize lecture notes from Mar 8-Apr 1
notes created
on Days 1-4
11-12 PM
Write summary notes for Ch. 4-6
Write summary notes for Ch. 9-10
12-1
Summarize lecture notes from Feb 21-Mar 5
Summarize lecture notes from Apr 4-Apr 28

14. Spreads studying over time Gives your brain time to absorb information
Because it…
Prevents cramming
Spreads studying over time
Gives your brain time to absorb information
Builds confidence
Prevents stress
Why try the 5-Day
Study Plan?

15. Question 2: Now, create a sample 5-Day Study Plan to show your SI students as a model for how they can plan their study. Use content from your SI class.
Make Your 5-Day Study Plan look like this:
Day 1: (What will be studied), timespan
Day 2: (What will be studied), timespan
Day 3: (What will be studied), timespan
Day 4: (What will be studied), timespan
Day 5: Review of Days 1-4, timespan

16. Other Study Strategies
Why do many BC students fail?
Other Study Strategies
Just staring at a page of notes
doesn’t work!
What do YOU do to make textbook information stick?
How do you know when you have studied enough?
What techniques have you tried with your SI students?

17. Question 3: Create your own poster to advertise ONE effective study strategy…(Use same lined paper or blank piece of 8 ½ X 11 white paper.) It can be any strategy…does not have to be the 5-Day Study Plan!
The best posters are: COLORFUL, CATCHY, with SIMPLE PHRASES

18. Sample Poster for the 5-Day Study Plan The following is my idea…

19. Finals are coming! Are you ready?
Try the 5-Day
Study Plan
Don’t cram the
night before
Shorter, more
frequent study
leads to a better
memory!
Divide up the
information you
need to know
over 5 days
Study smarter, not harder

20. Another Way to Prepare Your Students for Finals
Show them Habits of Mind videos!
Then be sure to discuss what they mean for
your students.
Give them a task to do while watching them.
You can check out one of our laptops to use.
The video clips are short and are on the main
BC website (or I can send you my slide with links).

21. Question 4: Task to go with Habits of Mind videos—On your lined paper, copy down this chart, and then fill it in as you watch the clips on the next slide.
Video Clip Title
Main Point that Grabbed Me
How I can Apply it to Studying for My Finals 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

22. Habits of Mind Videos: Striving for Excellence Being Focused
Check out a laptop, show these to your students, and then
have a discussion about them!
Striving for Excellence
Being Focused
Being Organized I
Being Organized II
Taking Good Notes

23. Another Way to Prepare Your Students for Finals
Address the issue of Test Taking Anxiety!

24. Test Anxiety Profile Before During After An Exam
Directions: Read through each column of thoughts, putting a check next to the ones that tend to pass through your head during the exam process. When you’ve finished, take a look at where the majority of your check- arks lie. If your thought processes are predominantly negative, then you need to make a conscious effort to convert them to positive ones (after you’ve studied your heart out, of course!).
Before
During
After
An Exam

25. BIG No-No!! NEGATIVE THOUGHTS Before Big Exam I will never pass.
I’m going to panic, as usual.
If only I could get out of it…
There’s far too much to learn before the test.
Why didn’t I study more?
Question 5: List one of your negative thoughts: ________________________________
BIG No-No!!

26. BIG No-No!! NEGATIVE THOUGHTS During Big Exam
Everyone else is working faster than I am.
I am just plain stupid.
People will notice my hands trembling.
My mind is a total blank.
I might as well give up. What’s the use?
Other students are turning in their tests already.
Question 6: Your negative thought?______________
BIG No-No!!

27. BIG No-No!! NEGATIVE THOUGHTS After Big Exam I knew I would blow it.
I’m going to flunk out.
There’s something wrong with my mind.
What will my parents say?
Question 7: One more from you:___________________________
BIG No-No!!

28. YES, Think This Way. POSITIVE THOUGHTS Before Big Exam
I don’t have to be perfect.
Worrying won’t help anything.
Try not to take this too seriously.
I can manage the situation.
Easy does it—it’s only a test.
Question 8: Another positive statement? _____________________________________
YES, Think This Way.

29. YES, Think This Way. POSITIVE THOUGHTS During Big Exam
Don’t think about the others—focus on the test.
I don’t need to prove myself.
Just take one step at a time.
I’m feeling tense; it’s time to relax myself.
Getting upset won’t help.
Use the time that’s left—focus on the test..
Question 9: How else are you focused on the positive? ___________________________
YES, Think This Way.

30. YES, Think This Way. POSITIVE THOUGHTS After Big Exam
I knew I could get through.
It could have been a lot worse.
I handled it pretty well.
Good—I did it!
I may not be the best, but I’m not the worst either.
Question 10: Another positive thought that you often have?
__________________________________________________
YES, Think This Way.

31. Practice Counteracting Negativity
Directions: For each negative statement, write a positive statement that directly counteracts it.
Ex.: Negative—This is too much for me. I can’t do it!
Positive—Yes, you can. Break it down into pieces
you can manage more easily.
Negative Statements:
Question 11: I’m going to forget all the stuff I studied.
Question 12: If I don’t pass this class, my world will come to an end.
Question 13: Oh no! I’m not understanding any question I’m looking at!
Question 14: None of this was covered in class…am I in the right room?!
Question 15: I’m such a pathetic excuse for a human being.
Question 16: The guy next to me is so much smarter than I am.
Question 17: Maybe I’m only cut out to work at McDonald’s.

32. Brainstorm 3 more ways to study for finals that you can teach your students: Question 18: Study Strategy 1 Question 19: Study Strategy 2 Question 20: Study Strategy 3

33. Question 21: Create a Session Plan (still on your lined paper—include the following 3 parts) that you can actually use with your students the week before finals.
Warm-Up: Can be a question, such as:
How do you normally prepare for finals?
Workout: This is where you show them your best strategy and have them practice it. (You can use 1 from the previous slide, if you like)
Cool-Down: You can ask them what they thought of the strategy and if they will truly commit to trying it out, etc.

34. Cool-Down: Staple all your answers to the questions together.
Be sure your name is on it, and it’s entitled
“Makeup Training #4.”
Turn in on Monday, 11/21 by 5 PM
Count 2 hours of time in your WTE and on your Weekly
Time Log.