The ideas and strategies/techniques utilized in the
presentations and books are backed by research and highly
successful classroom application by Gloria Frender at the
elementary, middle, and secondary levels. Gloria's presentations
and books are for:
- students of all abilities including gifted/talented, learning disabled,
upper elementary, middle level, secondary, post secondary and
adult students
- parents, teachers, administrators
- small group, classroom, school and district-wide programs
- staff inservices and training, school district conferences
- local, state, and national conferences
- home schooling
- employee and business retraining and educational classes
- .... and anyone who wants to Learn How to Learn
Listed below are some inservice, workshop and class topics.
Gloria specializes in combining specific aspects that best meet
your school district, faculty, parent and student needs. A
typical presentation may range from 1 1/2 hours to a full day of
6 hours. Topics include:
Learning Styles
- Learning style assessments
- Left/Right Brain dominance
- Auditory, visual, kinesthetic modalities
- Specific strategies to increase learning strengths and build weaknesses
- Understanding and improving communication skills
- Teaching others
- Learning to learn on the job
Time Management and Organizational Skills
- Setting up study time
- Successful scheduling strategies- daily, weekly, monthly
- Attacking assignments
- Concentration and focusing techniques
- Setting priorities; "TO DO" lists
- Study habit inventory
- Organizing: desks, backpacks, notebooks, lockers, etc.
- Study supply checklist
Listening and Note Taking Skills
- Successful techniques for lecture and text notes
- Creating study sheets and compacting concepts
- Editing notes
- Graphic organizers and listening guides
- Effective listening strategies
- Creating flash cards
- Identifying problems and finding solutions
Test Taking Skills
- Overcoming test anxiety
- Using test time effectively and efficiently
- Becoming "test-wise" techniques
- How to study for and take various types of tests
- Intelligent guessing strategies
Memory Techniques
- Understanding your memory and working with it
- Strategies for improving memory
- Steps to memorization
- Mnemonic devices
- How to study a foreign language
Reading Strategies
- Determining purpose, material, rate
- Power Reading Strategies; SQ3R
- Reading charts and graphs
- Problems and solutions to text book reading
Teaching Good Study Skills
(also see information for Teaching for Learning Success book review)
- Management and oganization
- Active vs. Passive learning
- Incorporating good study skills in the classroom
- Learning styles applications
- Across content: memory, graphic organizers, notetaking
- Questioning techniques, feedback, attacking assignments
How Parents Can Help at Home
This parent presentation will demonstrate how to create a
"win-win" situation at home in areas of time management,
organization skills, and study skills that encourage students to
become independent and self-confident learners. Specific
strategies that enable parents to act as home consultants and
guide the learning/thinking process as well as the product will be
enthusiastically shared. Learn to foster and support creativity,
diversity, and focused problem solving with numerous practical,
successful techniques ready to use tomorrow. Learning HOW to
learn is one of the best investments of time and energy parents
(and schools) can share with their children.
- Eliminating the "Homework Hassle"
- Setting study time
- Role of consultant
- Appropriate questioning strategies
- Time management
- Organizing study tools
- Specific learning techniques
- Problem solving
Links to additional information:
For more information contact Gloria Frender
Phone: (303) 530-3195
E-Mail: frenderg@earthlink.net