CONCENTRATION AND TECHNIQUES OF STUDY

CONCENTRATION AND TECHNIQUES OF STUDY

1. Due to available techniques of study, your child can learn and perform much more at school.

   • A) Attention and concentration
     • Perception has two elements such as attention and concentration. Attention is the faculty of directing our perception towards a point of interest and concentration when attention is maintained, physically and mentally, long time.
       • B) Study techniques
         • We have 3 techniques of study. The first one consists on the readind and analyzing quesyions. The second one consists on reviewing the questions and making a fast reading. The last one consists on comprehension, construction and comparison.
   • Basic study rules
     • a) Understand what is studied
       • When any topic studied is well understood it's harder to forget. It doesn't happen if you study Just trying to memorize. Another important point is that with the method of comprehensive reading the student can use that knowledge to solve problems or to ask questions in class.
       • b) The underlining of texts
         • Underlining is highlighting by a stroke the essential parts of a text. With this technique you save effort and get the most out of it.
         • c) Scheme
           • It is a consequence of underlines and facilitates the mental operations of synthesis and analysis, and has the advantage that it offers a clear structure visual of all the subject matter, allowing to capture at a glance the essential and everything.
           • d) Summary
             • The summary is the selective condensation of a text and to do it the student must be objective and should be very clear from the principle the general idea and the main ones of the text.
             • e) Study for exams
               • We must instill our children that it is not enough to say that you know something, you have to prove it. For that reason you should take simulators, test, or exams that help you to practice.
               • f) Search and use reference material
                 • Sometimes the information provided in class is not enough. They are frequent cases in which the good student should look other information on a subject, either on issues that are not clear enough to solve a problem
                 • g) Preparation of draftings and monographical topics
                   • It is essential that you as a teacher helps students selecting a topic, finding relevant information, organizing the content, developing the topic in a written way andreviewing the work.