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Practice: A Student Success Card Deck
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Coming Soon! In order to become great at anything in life, practice is universally required and being a great student is no exception. Introducing Practice: A Student Success Card Deck which Justin designed to help give high school and college students a way to explore effective study strategies and how to apply them to a variety of courses and topics. Additionally, this deck will help students learn how to overcome barriers to studying and pursue overarching skills that will lead to success.
Contents
Practice: A Student Success Card Deck includes 52 cards that cover five different categories
Courses: Eight different types of courses (plus a wild card!) ranging from the humanities to the natural sciences that students will take at some point in their high school or college careers.
Time: Five different lengths of time (plus a wild card!) that a student might spend studying.
Study Strategies: 14 effective study strategies (plus a wild card!) that can be employed in a variety of ways to help students study for their course and topic.
Barriers: Eight cards that include common barriers to why a student might not engage in studying.
Success Strategies: 14 cards that represent critical and overarching skills that students can use to be successful no matter what their discipline and career path.
The cards are printed and packaged right here in the USA by the wonderful folks at Shuffled Ink!
How to Play
You can play on your own or in a group! Two ways to play!
Study Strategies Option
1. Shuffle and place the Courses, Study Strategies, and Time cards face down in separate piles
2. Flip over the top card from each of the three piles
3. Come up with a way to use the Study Strategy in the allotted Time for the Course and topic
4. Advanced play: Add the Barriers card pile and figure out how to overcome this barrier to studying
Success Skills Option
1. Shuffle and place the Success Skills cards face down
2. Flip over the top card and discuss how you are using this Success Skill effectively (or not)
More Possible Alternative Ways to Play
Use in a Specific Course: Don’t use the Courses card and instead have students use the Time, Study Strategies, Barriers, and Success Skills cards only for your specific course.
Skills Ranking: Have students flip over all of the Success Skills cards and have them rank them from the skills that they are best at to those that they are least confident in. Then have a discussion about how they can improve those skills and what campus resources are available to help them improve in these areas.
Study Strategies Sorting: Have students flip over all of the Study Strategy cards and place them into “have used before” and “never used” piles. Then facilitate a discussion about how they can try using some in the “never used before” pile in their courses and how they can be helpful.