Project Challenge Curriculum Overview

Success Scaffold

Ready to Learn - sleep, diet, exercise, time management

Motivation and Attention - your have to care about every class

Student Skills - notes, reading, writing, vocabulary, testing, presentation

Project Challenge sections devote time each week to direct instruction in study skills and discussion of social and cultural issues in academic achievement. Here is an outline of skills and discussion themes.

1. Time management/organization: planners, homework v assignments

2. Goal setting and motivation - combating boredom, visualizing the future, confronting achievement gaps

3. Sleep, exercise, nutrition and learning

4. Note using: principles of memory and meaningful review

5. Note using: techniques - 2 column "sweat" systems

6. Reading for information - 3 stage reading process model (pre-reading à reading in chunks à post-reading) - MCAS prep

7. Test preparation strategies and resources: - ReDKRoP [Review Daily, Know what's on the test, ReOrganize

your notes, Practice answering test questions]

- mnemonic devices

8. Test taking strategies: multiple choice, open response

9. Stress management techniques

10. Writing process - mind maps

11. Reading for fun and power

12. Working in small groups - strategies for success

13. Communicating with teachers

14. Using your summer - enrichment opportunities

Enrichment field trips and guest speakers